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0709 | Police investigating the murder of Nisha Patel-Nasri, the off-duty special constable who was killed last night, think there may be a connection to her husband's business.
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0712 | Mountain rescue teams in Scotland are worried that the privatisation of search and rescue helicopters could see people being asked to foot the bill should they get into trouble. The Ministry of Defence says it doesn't at the moment have any plans to charge to rescue civilians. | | |
0716 | The events of Yesterday in Parliament.
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0722 | Leaked data for the results of the EU's carbon trading scheme suggest that British business will have to make extra cuts in emissions because the system of issuing permits has been too generous to some countries. Professor Michael Grubb is chief economist at the Carbon Trust. | | |
0725 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | | |
0730 | Our Paris Correspondent, Clive Myrie, reports on the current scandal in French politics - that the Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, ordered a secret service investigation of his cabinet colleague and rival for the presidency, Nicholas Sarkozy.
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0739 | Nightclubs in the West African state of Ivory Coast are buzzing with a new craze. A bird flu dance. It was dreamt up a week or so ago, when the disease was first detected in the country, and the movements of the dance are meant to bring to mind rather vividly the final lurching moments of a dying chicken.
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0745 | Thought For The Day with Brian Draper, Lecturer at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. | | |
0750 | Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat President and former leadership contender, has said the party's leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, should improve his performance in the House of Commons. The Lib Dem MP, Ed Davey, talks to the programme. | | | | |
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 look at some of your letters and emails. | | |
0823 | 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. | | |
0827 | In Kenya last night police deployed riot officers outside the ranch of Thomas Cholmondeley - the British aristocrat accused of killing a suspected poacher, a year after he was involved in an earlier fatal shooting. | | |
0830 | Having promoted the Human Rights Act as an overdue legal reform, the Government is now hinting that it may be amended. The Lord chancellor, Lord Falconer, talks to the programme. | | |
0842 | Many students face the prospect of entering the job market this summer without a degree because of the university lecturers' strike. Roger Kline is from the University and College Lecturers' Union NATFHE, and Professor Sir Ivor Crewe is the Vice Chancellor of Essex University. | | |
0852 | The Government has announced pilot studies of the therapies increasingly used to treat depression. Professor Paul Shalkoskis is professor of clinical psychology and applied science at the Institute of Psychiatry, and Philip Hodson is a fellow of British Association of Chartered Psychotherapists and a psychotherapist.
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0856 | The Russian bear is back - so reads a headline in this morning's Guardian. The piece reflects a general sense of western unease about Russian assertiveness under President Putin. Timothy Garton Ash, professor of European Studies at Oxford and the writer Vitali Vitaliev speak to the programme.
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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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