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0709 | Hear the latest news from Washington where the Bush administration has been embarrassed by the comments of its ambassador in Iraq. | | |
0712 | The conditions in Belmarsh Maximum Security Prison have come under scrutiny by the Chief Inspector of Prisons, Ann Owers. We speak to her. | | |
0716 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0720 | The House of Lords is being asked to amend the Government's Civil Aviation Bill to require foreign governments to give information about any planes landing in this country which are involved in "extraordinary rendition". We speak to the cross bench peer Lady D'Souza . | | |
0725 | The sports news with Steve May. | | |
0731 | Hear the third in a series of reports from Burma. Mike Thomson reports from Cox Bazaar near the country's border with Bangladesh. | | |
0740 | MPs are giving councils new powers to crack down on irresponsible walkers and limit the number of dogs they can exercise at one time. | | |
0745 | Thought For The Day with the writer Rhidian Brook. | | |
0748 | The tactic of "shooting to kill" suspected suicide bombers has been backed by the Association of Chief Police Officers. We speak to Sir Chris Fox, the President of the Association of Chief Police Officers, and Shami Chakrabarti, the Director of Liberty. | | | | |
0810 | Sir Nigel Crisp is no longer the chief executive of the NHS in England and has acknowledged accountability for the financial problems of the service. We speak to Andrew Lansley, the Conservative health spokesman, Niall Dickson, the chief exeuctive of the reserarch group The King's Fund, and the Secretary of State for health, Patricia Hewitt. | | |
0820 | Do we need more right wing plays? We ask Julian Fellowes, a Conservative backer, actor and writer, and Kwame Kwei-Armah, the actor and playwright. | | |
0830 | What is Brazil's environmental record? We speak to John Sauven, campaigns director for Greenpeace, and Gilberto Gil, Brazilian Culture Minister. | | |
0833 | The business update with Greg Wood. | | |
0837 | The Conservative MP Nigel Evans has written to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards about the business affairs of Tessa Jowell's husband David Mills. We speak to Mr Evans. | | |
0840 | The House of Lords is to decide whether Gypsies camped on local authority land without permission can fight eviction by arguing that their human rights are being affected. | | |
0852 | What can a neuroscientist offer to a town planner? We speak to Prof Alan Penn, Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing at University College London, and Dr John Zeisel, of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in San Deigo, California. | | |
0852 | We speak to a Methodist minister who wants to erect a cross outside his church in the West Midlands, he has been told by the council that it would constitute an 'advertisement' and would therefore be subject to a £75 fee. | | |
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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.
| |  | Don De Lillo Interview
The American writer Don de Lillo who wrote Underworld and is one of the biggest figures in modern American literature - has become a classic. A Penguin classic. A great accolade, but usually one reserved for the dead. John interviewed him and asked what it's like to be thought of as a "classic"?
| | | | Mouloud Sihali Interview
Mouloud Sihali from Algeria, North Africa, is one of the suspected terrorists that the Home Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the Home Secretary has deemed Sihali a threat to the Nation's security. Last year Mouloud Sihali was found not guilty of being a part of a so called released Ricin plot. | | | | 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)
Part 1
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.
(20/04/04).
| | | | 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. | | |
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