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0709 | Why does a hospital in Staffordshire have to cut up to a thousand jobs? We speak to Anthony Sumara, their chief executive of the hospital, and Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary. | | |
0715 | The commons committee for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister has been highly critical of the new licensing laws. We talk to their chair, Dr Phyllis Starkey. | | |
0718 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | | |
0720 | The outgoing editor of The Economist, Bill Emmott, has used his last leading article in the magazine to call for the Prime Minister to resign. We talk to him. | | |
0722 | Hear the latest news of the six men who became seriously ill during a drug trial on Monday. | | |
0726 | If you plan a musical event in the Victoria Tower gardens then under the terms of the new licensing act you need a license. The Secretary of State for culture Tessa Jowell has broken the law in a singsong there to mark International Women's Day. | | |
0730 | Thought For The Day with the Right Reverend Richard Harries. | | |
0740 | We speak to Lord Haskins, an independent peer, about political fundraising - an activity that has recently caused embarrassment to the Labour Party. | | | | |
0810 | Why is the NHS cutting jobs when spending on the health service has reached new heights? We speak to the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt. | | |
0820 | The sports news from Cheltenham with Steve May. | | |
0830 | How can the Tories win back women voters? Hear our report. | | |
0833 | A committee of MPs has been extremely critical of the way the Government introduced the new licensing laws. We speak to shadow culture secretary, Hugo Swire, and James Purnell, a Labour junior minister. | | |
0837 | When the Liberal Democrat peer Lady Tonge referred to Kalahari Bushmen as "Stone Age", the charity Survival International thought she showed a patronising and colonial attitude. We speak to Baroness Tonge and Fiona Watson of Survival International. | | |
0840 | The business update with Rebecca Marston. | | |
0850 | Do sporting events such as the Commonwealth Games, make us healthier? Ashia Hanson, who held the world record for triple jump in 1998, and David Conn, from The Guardian, speak to us. | | |
0855 | Is Mark Thompson the most influential Catholic lay person in Britain? We talk to Catherine Pepinster from The Tablet. | | |
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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.
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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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