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0709 | The death of the former senior Sinn Fein member, Denis Donaldson. Kevin Toolis is a writer with a long-time interest in the Republican movement and Hugh Jordan, chief reporter of the Sunday World of Dublin. | | |
0717 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0719 | Officials put bird flu plans to the test during a real-time simulation of an outbreak in Britain. Ben Bradshaw is the DEFRA minister in charge. | | |
0722 | Our Business Editor, Robert Peston, looks at the pros and cons of the private-equity takeover boom.
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0725 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | | |
0733 | Is wind power a reliable source of energy? Professor Jim Skea who's research director for the UK Energy Research Centre and Professor Ian Fells from the Royal Academy of Engineering. | | |
0743 | We hear from Broadway, where David Hare's play Stuff Happens opens this week. | | |
0747 | Thought for the day with Dom Antony Sutch, a Benedictine Monk. | | |
0750 | Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett on Labour's launch of its local election campaign in England. | | | | |
0810 | The death of former Sinn Fein member Denis Donaldson. What are the implications for the peace process in Northern Ireland? | | |
0821 | We speak to the winner of this year's George Orwell Prize for political writing....and she's a novelist. | | |
0826 | A sports update with Garry Richardson. | | |
0832 | Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein faces new charges of genocide against the Kurds in the 1980s. | | |
0834 | Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari has rejected growing pressure to resign. UK foreign office minister Kim Howells. | | |
0840 | A business update with Greg Wood. | | |
0844 | Dr Alan Sked founder and first leader of UKIP tells us what he made of David Cameron's recent remarks about the party. | | |
0850 | Vitamin pills or widespread culls - how to deal with badgers and the spread of TB. | | |
0854 | War games - the theory that could change our understanding of conflict. | | |
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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.
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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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