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0709 | Five men have been jailed for the murder of Mary-Ann Leneghan and the attempted murder of her friend. | | | |  |
0712 | Four of the men involved in the drug trial that went wrong have regained consciousness, though they're still very seriously ill. | | |
0716 | Polly Billington looks into the Labour loans that treasurer Jack Dromey will report on to his parties National Executive Committee next week. | | |
0722 | A Labour backbencher's Bill that promotes domestic energy efficiency has cleared another hurdle in the House of Commons, but is making very slow progress. | | |
0725 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | | |
0735 | Chris Grayling and Derek Twigg join us to tell us more about the Conservatives, accusing the Government of planning cuts to rail services across the North of England. | | |
0739 | Nine horses are dead after the final race at this year's Cheltenham Festival - the highest toll for ten years. Dr Peter Webbon, a Jockey club Vet talks to Carolyn. | | |
0745 | Thought for the Day with Canon David Winter. | | |
0750 | Former leader of the Conservative party Michael Howard has told his local party that he is leaving the Commons at the next election, we speak to the man himself. | | | | |
0810 | Dr Dragisa Burzan, the Serbian ambassador to London explains why Pozarevac will be the only town in Serbia to mark the funeral of Slobodan Milosevic today with a day of mourning. | | |
0820 | A sport update with Garry Richardson. | | |
0830 | The Iraqi parliament met this week but still couldn't agree on a government; British troops numbers are being reduced in the summer but it's still a persistently violent country. We are joined by John Reid to tell us more. | | |
0837 | How do writers write? We ask Alexander McCall Smith and Will Self that very question. | | |
0843 | Residents in Australia's Northern Territory are preparing for a mass day of action against the marauding cane toad. The toxic amphibian has spread in plague-like numbers across tropical Australia since it was introduced to eradicate cane beetles more than 70 years ago. | | |
0850 | A group of scientists and economists are discussing the possibility of living to 160, as they debate how our socieities might look many years from now. Robin Hanson and Dr Aubrey fill us in. | | |
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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 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.
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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. | | |
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