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0709 | The former Cabinet minister Stephen Byers is urging Labour to re-examine its trade union links. Angela Eagle MP explains why. | | | |  |
0715 | The first case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu on an EU poultry farm has been confirmed in France. | | |
0721 | This programme's citizens jury has been meeting again. As part of the BBC's Action Week, Polly Billington went to listen to what they thought of participatory democracy. | | |
0726 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | | |
0732 | Is the tide turning against attempts by extremist animal rights campaigners to stop medical testing on animals? | | |
0743 | How will the hosepipe ban in the southern counties affect gardeners? Guy Barter is Head of Horticultural Advisory Services at the Royal Horticultural Society. | | |
0746 | Thought for the Day with Catherine Pepinster, the Editor of the Tablet. | | |
0749 | Will the Education Bill be successful? Shadow education secretary, David Willets and former Home Office Minister, John Denham. | | | | |
0810 | How have the events of the past week affected daily life for Iraqis? Dr Akif Khalil Al Allousi of the al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad and Salam Pax, famous here as the Baghdad Blogger for his account of life during the invasion and occupation. | | |
0818 | A selection of some of your letters and emails. | | |
0823 | A mole catcher's definitive advice on how to see them off. | | |
0827 | Sports news with Garry Richardson. | | |
0832 | What exactly is the "standards board" that has suspended Ken Livingstone? Sir Anthony Holland chairs the Standards Board for England. | | |
0849 | Our sports presenter Mary Rhodes is running the marathon this year as is Dave Withers of Kent Police who is running the London Marathon dressed as a banana. | | |
0852 | The communities minister, David Miliband, has called for a "new phase" in the partnership between state and voluntary sector. To discuss this are Will Hutton and Simon Jenkins. | | |
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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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