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0709 | John Goodman, director of corporate communications at Peugeot-Citreon explains the closure of their Ryton plant to Rebecca Marston. | | |
0714 | The plight of Haydn Lewis and those who, like him, contracted HIV or Hepatitis C from contaminated blood transfusions in the 1970's and 80's, is today being raised in the House of Lords. | | |
0718 | Two weeks of violent protests in Nepal have lead to hundred's of wounded and hundred's of arrests. Yet, despite the ensuing hardship, the protestors will not relent. | | |
0724 | An inquiry into the NHS funding crisis is to be held by the commons Health Select Committee. The Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow is a member. | | |
0730 | Football is one of a number of sports expected to sign up to a new code of conduct designed to protect sport against betting cheats. Garry Richardson has the latest sports news. | | |
0735 | Jack Straw is in Saudi Arabia, on a mission to persuade the Saudis not to give money to Hamas. | | |
0740 | Hear the sounds of some of the UK's rarest animals; a pool frog, a woodlark and an otter. | | |
0745 | Thought for the Day from The Reverend Angela Tilby. | | |
0750 | If your thinking of going to China for an organ transplant, you might want to listen to Professor Stephen Wigmore of the British Transplant Society first. | | |
0755 | The Home Office has decided to cap the compensation payments for victims of miscarriages of justice, but where would this leave the likes of Angela Cannings who was wrongly accused of killing her own children? Her lawyer Bill Bache. | | | | |
0810 | Have UK labour laws allowed big companies such as Peugeot to dispose of workers and plants too easily? Alan Johnson is Trade and Industry Secretary. | | |
0825 | The Queen will be 80 on Friday; we'll see her in public on one of those walkabouts which have become so familiar but what's she like in private? | | |
0827 | Sports news from Garry Richardson. | | |
0833 | Fifty years ago today, a celebrated war hero mysteriously disappeared whilst on a secret diving mission in Portsmouth harbour. Government files on Commander Lionel 'Buster' Crabb are secret and are due to remain so for another fifty years, but a member of his family wants those files opened now. | | |
0841 | A former director general of Mossad, Ephraim Halevy, has argued that Hamas might be persuaded to join the war against Al Quaeda instead of fighting Israel. | | |
0844 | Rebecca Marston is at Ryton with the business news. | | |
0847 | The Green Party says the Conservative slogan "Vote Blue, Go Green" breaches electoral law - in spirit at least. Green party spokesman Darren Johnson and Conservative MP Julie Kirkbride are here. | | |
0751 | A report from the UN's High Commissoner for Refugees, Antonio Guterro identifies the effects of the war on terror, on those fleeing persecution. | | |
0756 | Michael O'Brien served 11 years for murdering a newsagent before his conviction was overturned and Alison Parker, a lawyer who handles criminal injury compensation for crime victims continue today's dicourse on compensation for miscariages of justice. | | |
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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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