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0607 | The first case of bird flu has been reported in Africa. | | |
0609 | Five of Britain's biggest food manufacturers are to display more nutritional information on their products. | | |
0615 | Business with Greg Wood. | | |
0626 | Sport with Garry Richardson. | | |
0632 | The Home Secretary announces his five year plan for prisons today. | | |
0634 | The Work and Pensions Secretary is calling for a new review of the Child Support Agency. | | |
0637 | The two policemen who shot a man carrying a table leg because they thought it was a gun, will not face any disciplinary action. | | |
0640 | A review of today's papers in the UK and Australia. | | |
0643 | Yesterday in Parliament with Robert Orchard. | | |
0649 | Kenyan officials are travelling to Britain to interview John Githongo, the former ethics secretary who made allegations of corruption against the government. | | |
0654 | A Commons Committee has criticised the government for not encouraging the cleaner burning of coal. Roger Harrabin reports. | | | |  |
0709 | Raphael Rowe speaks to a former convict about new measures to lower the number of reoffenders. We also hear from the former Chief Inspector of Prisons, Lord Ramsbotham. | | |
0715 | The policemen who shot a man carrying a table leg, which they mistook for a gun, have been cleared of all disciplinary action. Daniel Machover, the solicitor for the dead man's family, joins us. | | |
0719 | Business with Greg Wood. | | |
0722 | Dr Geoff Hayward from Oxford University's Educational Studies Department, discusses their report into the falling standards of numeracy and literacy amongst students entering university. | | |
0727 | Sport with Garry Richardson. | | |
0731 | Martin Glenn, Chief Executive of Pepsico UK and Paul Lincoln from the National Heart Forum, discuss the move by food manufacturers to prominently display nutritional information on products. | | |
0738 | 17th Century handwritten notes by the scientist Robert Hooke, which record the early meetings of the Royal Society, have been found. Professor Lisa Jardine, a biographer of Hooke, joins us. | | |
0745 | Thought for the Day with John Bell of the Iona Community. | | |
0750 | Frank Field and the Lib Dem Work and Pensions spokesman David Laws, discuss the problematic Child Support Agency. | | | | |
0810 | The Home Secretary Charles Clarke discusses his five year plan for prison and probation services. | | |
0822 | Simon Jenkins, editor of a religious website, and Anne Atkins discuss the "virtual Church". | | |
0827 | Sport with Garry Richardson. | | |
0831 | The Kenyan High Commissioner, Joseph Muchemi, discusses the political crisis and famine that have engulfed the country. | | |
0838 | Business with Garry Richardson. | | |
0841 | How important are biographies of ordinary people? Poet and author Blake Morrison and Lawrence Goldman, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. | | |
0846 | Should aid agencies have political affiliations? Director of Christian Aid, Dr Daleep Mukarji, and Vicky Hawkins, Head of Programmes for Medecins Sans Frontieres UK. | | |
0850 | The former Danish PM, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, discusses the cartoon controversy in Denmark. | | |
0854 | Sir John Elliot Gardiner explains why the Mozart concert he is conducting tonight will leave a lasting impression on the audience. | | |
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We don’t always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.
| |  | The nominations for the Oscars were announced yesterday, and The Constant Gardener is tipped for a place on the shortlist. It stars Ralph Fiennes who picked up an Evening Standard Film Award this week for his role in the film. Polly Billington spoke him and to the author, John le Carre, about the film and its chances at the Oscars. (31/01/06) | | | | Edward Stourton interviews the President of Mexico, Vincente Fox, and Tom Shannon, the United States Under Secretary of State with responsibility for the Americas, on the Summit of the Americas in Argentina and the prospect of a free trade agreement for the region.
President Vincente Fox.
Under Secretary of State Tom Shannon. | | | | 50th anniversary of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
The uncut interview with Sir Peter Hall, the first director to stage the play in 1955, with the last surviving member of the original main cast, Timothy Bateson who played 'lucky', and playwright Ronald Harwood. | | | | Jim Naughtie speaks to the Archbishop of Kaduna, Josiah Idowu Fearon, about the Anglican Church in Africa and tensions between Christians and Muslims. (25/05/05) | | | | Edward Stourton interviews Monsignor Charles Burns, a retired head of the Vatican's Secret Archives, in Rome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
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Part 2 | | | | First BBC interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaks to our reporter Zubeida Malik about his ordeal and how he continues to campaign for five Britons still there to be freed. | | | | Justin Webb interviews Walter Cronkite who pays tribute to Dan Rather, a 73 year old news presenter in America who is retiring after 24 years.
(10/03/05) | | | | Tony Blair speaks to Jim at the British Embassy in Washington, following his controversial Rose Garden press conference with Bush. The Iraq war, the Middle East and the first hints of an EU constitution referendum u-turn. (17/04/04). | | | | Jim Naughtie interviews the Nigerian High Commissioner in Britain, Dr Christopher Kolade, about the recent increase of religious violence in Nigeria.
(19/05/04) | | | | John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
(03/05/04). | | | | Jim Naughtie interviews Bob Woodward. First Watergate, now a controversial book into events in the White House pre-Iraq war.
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| | | | Sarah Montague interviews Paul Burrell.
The former royal butler denies betraying Diana, Princess of Wales, insisting his controversial new book was "a loving tribute".
| | | | General James L. Jones
During his visit to London - the Supreme Commander of Nato talks to James Naughtie about the threat posed to NATO by a stronger EU military force. | | | | Hillary Clinton talks to James Naughtie
Her questions surrounding the White House handling of the Iraq war, plus her years with Bill in that stately building. | | | | Mark Coles interviews Damien Hirst
......about his new exhibition in the small Slovenian capital Ljubljana, including drawings from his teenage years. | | |
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