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0709 | Will doctors take to extending the choice of hospitals available to each NHS patient in England? From the Royal College of Surgeons, Bernard Ribeiro. | | |
0717 | Fox's biscuits are up for sale. Greg Wood has the business news. | | |
0722 | Iraqi prime minister Nuri al Maliki flies to Basra today where Shi'ite power struggles are adding to a deterioration of security. Colonel David Cullen. | | |
0725 | Cleveland Police Authority is making the first legal challenge against controversial plans to merge police forces. Their chairman Dave McLuckie. | | |
0730 | England shone in a friendly match against Hungary last night. Garry Richardson has the sporting news. | | |
0735 | Australian PM Alexander Downer explains his decision to send peace keepers to East Timor to support president Xanana Gusmao's seizure of emergency powers in the face of continuing violence. | | |
0739 | Are informal roadside shrines to those killed in road traffic accidents, a sign of loss, a sign of warning or a dangerous distraction to drivers? | | |
0742 | Thought for the Day from the Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks. | | |
0745 | Tax Credits were designed to help those on low incomes, but for the second year running, many of the recipients will face a large bill due to bureaucratic mistakes. | | | | |
0810 | The US military is being accused of covering up a massacre in Haditha, by a group of its marines. Colonel Janis Karpinski is a former Military Police Commander at Abu Ghraib prison. Ann Clwyd is Britain's human rights envoy to Iraq. | | |
0820 | Since 1947 the Doomsday Clock has been a potent symbol of the Cold War, but is a nuclear doomsday still the greatest threat to humanity? | | |
0826 | Sporting news from Garry Richardson. | | |
0830 | How did an ashtray in an RAF mess help win the Falklands War? Rowland White is the Author of 'Vulcan 607' and Sir Michael Knight commanded the Vulcan squadrons in 1982. | | |
0835 | Greg Wood has the business news. | | |
0840 | Our correspondent Jonathan Head is in Dili, capital of East Timor, where violence and looting have reached such a scale that Australia has sent in peace keepers in an attempt to assist President Gusmao's seizure of emergency powers. | | |
0845 | Amnesty International today released some striking satellite images which show the destruction of a large community in Zimbabwe. Simeon Mawanza is from Amnesty. | | |
0850 | Niall Dickson is the chief executive of the health think tank The Kings Fund. What do they make of the government's decision to extend NHS patient choice across the country? | | |
0855 | Is being a workaholic a good thing? Will Hutton is an author and Chief Executive of the World Foundation and Chris Philp, newly elected conservative councillor was Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2003. | | |
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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.
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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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