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0709 | The government will set out today its plans for changing the system of coroners. We speak to the Constitutional Affairs Minister, Harriet Harman, and the chairman of the BMA, Dr Michael Wilks. | | |
0712 | A British soldier has been killed and two have been seriously injured in a battle with the Taleban in southern Afghanistan. | | |
0717 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0720 | Len Duvall, who chairs the Metropolitan Police Authority, says he wants a report from the Metropolitan Police about exactly how and why the Forest Gate raid took place. | | |
0725 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | | |
0735 | According to this morning's papers, John Reid has ruffled some feathers at the Home Office over a new slogan on "repect". We speak to Louise Casey, director of the government's respect task force, and David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary. | | |
0740 | Japan seems to be well placed to take control of the International Whaling Commission when it holds its annual general meeting later this week. Some environmentalists have accused the Japanese of buying votes with the promise of economic aid. | | |
0745 | Thought for the Day with Clifford Longley, a religious commentator. | | |
0750 | There have been more calls for America to close Guantanamo Bay after three detainees there killed themselves. We have been speaking to Josh Colangelo-Bryan, a lawyer for a Guantanamo detainee, and Cully Stimson, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee affairs. | | | | |
0810 | The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, speaks about the growing pressure on the Met Police, following the raid in Forest Gate. | | |
0820 | What should be done about the fact that native red squirrels are under threat from grey squirrels? The Scottish Conservative party MSP, Murdo Fraser, wants a bounty to be paid for every grey squirrel to be caught or killed. Andrew Tyler is director of Animal Aid. | | |
0826 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | | |
0830 | The weekend's events in Gaza have provided a grim backdrop to today's meeting between Tony Blair and his Israeli counterpart Ehud Olmert. Zvi Ravner is the deputy Israeli ambassador in London. | | |
0840 | British theatre triumphed last night in New York. At the Tony Awards - Broadway's equivalent of the Oscars - the Alan Bennett play The History Boys was a top prizewinner. It took home six trophys. | | |
0842 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0845 | American and British attempts to deal with terrorism are creating more problems than they are solving according to a report from the think tank The Oxford Research Group. One of the authors of the report is Paul Rogers. | | |
0848 | According to newspaper reports, Ministers are considering giving fish oil supplements to schoolchildren to improve their behaviour and studying performance. Dr Alexandra Richardson is director of the charity Food and Behaviour Research, and John Flockton is the headmaster of Newhall primary school in Bradford. | | |
0850 | The Commission for Rural Communities will be making their case about the difficulties for people living in the countryside today. They will be showing a film to ministers and MPs called Hidden Voices - Rural disadvantage. The soundtrack to it was written by Steve Knightley . | | |
0852 | A statement from the IPCC in response to our interview with Ken Livingstone. | | |
0855 | The Church of England wants the government to take more effort supporting and training teachers in how they should organise collective worship in schools. We are joined by the Bishop of Dover the Right Reverend Stephen Venner, and by John Dunford, General Secretary of the Association of School and College leaders.
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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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