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0709 | The UN General Secretary Kofi Annan will today launch a new humanitarian fund designed to sharpen up the way their organisation responds to emergencies. We speak to our own minister for International Development, Hilary Benn. | | |
0712 | We speak to Philip Hammond, the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, about how we expect to hear that the Government has not met its target to reduce child poverty. | | |
0716 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0720 | The Food Standards Agency will decide today whether to go ahead with the 'traffic light' system of food labelling. We talk to Dr Susan Jebb, head of nutrition and health research at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, and Christian Cull, marketing director of Waitrose. | | |
0725 | The sports news with Steve May. | | |
0731 | Hear our latest report from Burma where Mike Thomson has been looking at the impact that the regime's policies have on the country's environment. | | |
0740 | Sales of rhubarb have increased 100 per cent from January 2005 to January 2006. We talk to Janet Oldroyd-Hulme, a rhubarb grower, about why this might be. | | |
0745 | Thought For The Day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser - Vicar of Putney. | | |
0748 | South Dakota's Governor has signed a bill into law that bans abortion in the State. We talk to our correspondent in Washington and Daniel McConchie, vice president of the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life. | | | | |
0810 | In 1998 the Government set themselves the target of eradicating child poverty by 2020 and 2005 was set as the date for reducing child poverty by a quarter. This morning the Department for Work and Pensions will publish figures which are expected to show that the target was missed. We speak to Margaret Hodge of the DWP. | | |
0820 | New research suggests that during the cold war there were far greater links between labour politicians and communists in East Germany than had been previously thought. We speak to the author of the report, Stefan Berger, a Professor of History at the University of Manchester, and the former Father of the House, Tam Dalyell. | | |
0830 | The sports news with Steve May. | | |
0833 | The European Commission wants member states to have a common gas and electricity policy. We speak to the EU Energy Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs. | | |
0837 | The public consultation on whether there should be a mass cull of badgers ends soon. Are we too quick to cull? Hear our report then an interview with Stephen Harris, the Professor of Environmental Sciences at Bristol University, and Robin Page from the Countryside Restoration Trust. | | |
0840 | The business update with Greg Wood. | | |
0852 | Hear our report on child murderers as we investigate a murder committed in 1903 by an eight year old boy. | | |
0855 | There is now a company that will publish your book on the web, if a reader likes the look of an extract and buys it then they pay for the cost of having it printed and bound. We talk to Bob Young, the man who founded the company, and Neil Denny, the editor of The Book Seller. | | |
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| |  | 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)
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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.
(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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