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0711 | The Shadow Home Secretary David Davis will be tabling questions in the Commons today about the allegations that an immigration officer offered to help a teenage asylum seeker in return for sex. He speaks to the programme this morning. | | |
0714
| Sir Alistair Graham chairs the Committee on Standards in Public Life and has made it clear that he thinks Tony Blair has not been taking them seriously enough. | | |
0717 | The Prime Minister of Montenegro has announced that his country has voted for Independence from Serbia. Miodrag Vlahovic is the Foreign Minister of Montenegro. | | |
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| The Attorney General has gone to Israel to look into the possibility of bringing charges of war crimes against Israeli soldiers who killed two British citizens three years ago. One of them was Tom Hurndall, a peace activist who'd wanted to help Palestinians. His father Anthony Hurndall joins the programme. | | |
0724 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0726 | The sports news with Steve May. | | |
0730 | Should victims of crime have a say in when the criminal is released from prison? David Hines, whose daughter was murdered, is Chairman of the North of England Victims Association and Stephen Hockman QC is Chairman of the Bar Council. | | |
0740 | Can East London be sold as a kind of English Venice? Council leaders and waterways experts will launch an initiative today to make the docks and waterways one of the big attractions for 2012. | | |
0745 | Thought for the Day with Reverend Dr Alan Billings, Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University. | | |
0750 | The NHS Confederation is producing a report today arguing that the reduction in hospital beds is a good thing and we need even fewer. We are joined by the Confederation's Chief Executive, Gill Morgan, and Karen Jennings, head of health at UNISON. | | | | |
0810 | John Denham, Chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, speaks to the programme about the latest scandals to hit the Home Office. | | |
0820 | The Finnish rock group, Lordi, won the Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with their song, Hard Rock Hallelujah. The Finnish Ambassador to the UK is Jaako Laajava. | | |
0826 | The sports news with Steve May. | | |
0830 | Our business reporter, Sumant Bhatia, talks to the Chief Executive of McDonalds UK, Steve Easterbrook, about the effect the book 'Fast Food Nation' has had on the business. We also speak to the author of that book, Eric Schlosser. | | |
0835 | Great chunks of Scotland are being bought up by people whose families have lived on the land for generations. The latest is one of the biggest sporting estates there - the South Uist estate in the Western Isles. Angus MacMillan is the chairman of the the organisation that has been set up by local people to buy it. | | |
0840 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0845 | The Home Office is facing fresh controversy with the disclosure that almost three hundred offenders have absconded from Leyhill Open prison near Bristol over the past three years. Colin Moses is national chairman of the Prison Officers Association. | | |
0850 | The Government's Pensions White paper will be published this week. Pensions secretary John Hutton said yesterday that this will be the most biggest shake up of the system since the Attlee government's radical reforms. | | |
0855 | Is Tony Blair right to be optimistic about Iraq's future? The writer William Shawcross has always supported the war and he's just back from Iraq. Dr Rosemary Hollis is the director of research at Chatham House. | | |
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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.
(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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