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0607 | Israeli ministers meet this morning to discuss how to approach Hamas' victory at the Palestinian election. | | |
0609 | Billy-Jo Jenkins natural father has spoken to our reporter Sanchia Berg. | | |
0615 | Business news with Rebecca Marston. | | |
0626 | Sports news with Steve May. | | |
0640 | The National Audit Office raises doubts over Government claims that efficiency programmes have saved £5 billion. | | |
0645 | The review of today's papers in the UK, Paris and Delhi. | | |
0648 | Yesterday in Parliament and MPs are off on holiday again. | | |
0634 | A report for the Howard League paints an appalling picture of life for children in Britain's penal system. | | |
0651 | Aid workers have discovered tens of thousands of people in remote areas of Pakistan who have not yet received aid since the earthquake four months ago. | | |
0655 | Tony Blair is in Berlin with Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel this morning. | | |
0631 | Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain thinks Guantanamo Bay should be closed. | | | |  |
0709 | A UN report has claimed that what goes on at the US detention centre Guantanamo Bay amounts to torture. Michael Gapes is the labour chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. | | |
0715 | How does a country deal with an elected authority run by an organisation dedicated to its destruction? That's the question Israel will be tackling this morning. | | |
0719 | A business update with Rebecca Marston | | |
0722 | Sinn Fein holds its annual conference today. What will they make of MPs here having voted in favour of a new law making it a crime to glorify terrorism? | | |
0733 | For the third time Sion Jenkins has been acquitted of the murder of his step daughter Billy Jo Jenkins. Her natural father, Bill Jenkins has spoken candidly to our reporter Sanchia Berg about his surprise and disappointment at what had not been presented to the jury. | | |
0747 | Thought for the day with the Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool. | | |
0742 | The famous Australian magnate Kerry Packer was remembered in grand, if not rather ironic style last night at the Sydney Opera House. | | |
0750 | In this country 2,700 children are being held in penal institutions and according to a new report they are being treated appallingly. | | | | |
0810 | Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been very critical of Britain's way of dealing with the threat from terrorism and he too, along with Kofi Annan and many others, supports the mounting pressure to close Guantanamo Bay. | | |
0822 | Bury Council in Lancashire are a little short of cash, so they're selling off a famous painting, a Lowry, but some people including Robert Bibby, leader of the Conservatives on the council disprove, the council's chief executive is Mark Sanders. | | |
0831 | A landlord established some thirty years ago, to house refugees from war zones in Africa, is being accused of inflicting slum conditions, abuse and intimidation upon his tenants. | | |
0835 | A business update with Rebecca Marston. | | |
0838 | The government claims to have saved £5 billion through efficiency measures, but the National Audit Office isn't so sure. Theresa Villiers and Des Browne. | | |
0844 | A satellite study of the Greenland ice cap shows that it is melting far faster than scientists had thought. President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dr Gilbert Omenn explains the significance of this research. | | |
0855 | The Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has condemned a decision by the Church of England to review its investment in the company Caterpillar Inc, as a direct result of the use its equipment by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories. Jeff Barak of the Jewish Chronicle and Keith Malcouronne representing SYNOD discuss. | | |
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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.
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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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