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0709 | Health experts are due to carry out more tests on a swan found dead in Fife which tested positive for bird flu. Jim McLaren, Scottish National Farmers' Union and John Oxford, professor of virology, St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital. | | |
0716 | The body which has the job of making sure all the venues are built in time for the Olympics will formally start its work today. It's called the Olympic Delivery Authority and its chief executive is David Higgins. | | |
0721 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0723 | We hear why Iran is playing war games. | | |
0725 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | | |
0732 | Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern are going ahead with their meeting today in Northern Ireland in spite of the murder of Denis Donaldson. Our reporter, Zubeida Malik has been to the republican heartland of West Belfast.
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0746 | Who invented golf - Scotland or China? | | |
0749 | Thought for the day with Rhidian Brook who is in Nairobi as he continues his travels, together with his family, to some of the world's HIV/AIDS epicentres. | | |
0753 | Peter Mandelson tells us why the EU needs a constitution. | | | | |
0810 | Is enough being done to tackle bird flu? Dr Chris Smith is a virologist at Cambridge University, UN official, David Nabarro and Professor Colin Blakemore from the Medical Research Council discuss. | | |
0822 | Is there too much background music in our lives? Mark Lawson, presenter of Front Row and Professor John Sloboda, a music psychologist at Keele University.
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0827 | A sports update with Garry Richardson. | | |
0833 | Israeli police have detained a cabinet minister from the new Palestinian government, Hamas officials say. James Reynolds reports. | | |
0835 | Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern are to deliver a take-it-or-leave-it plan to the parties to restore devolution. Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness. | | |
0841 | A business update with Greg Wood. | | |
0844 | Retirement villages, the perfect answer for old people or just ghettoes with posh gates? | | |
0852 | Is there a divide between the sexes over which novels people read? | | |
0854 | We take a look at the influence of modernism on all parts of our life including architecture. | | |
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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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