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0708 | What will the Lord Chancellor's speech reveal about victims having their say in court? | | | |  |
0709 | On last night's NEWSNIGHT a computer expert who worked alongside the seventh of July bombers, said that he had warned detectives about his concerns. | | |
0717 | A review of todays papers. | | |
0720 | As a peace deal was signed between leaders in Mogadidshu, a Swedish cameraman was shot. Yusef Garaad Omar is head of the BBC's Somali section and from Nairobi, Rob Crilly of the Times. | | |
0723 | Sports news from Steve May. | | |
0725 | There might be an amnesty offered to insurgents in Iraq. | | |
0727 | How much influence should Scottish MPs be allowed to have at Westminster? | | |
0732 | Mohammed Abu Bakr Mansha has been accused of being police informant for the Forest Gate raid. | | |
0740 | The Sun has branded him the World's Ropiest Ref... and Jonny Hurst has written a poem in commemoration. | | |
0750 | Thought for the Day comes from Martin Palmer. | | |
0753 | If Tony Blair really wants to rebalance the criminal justice system, the first thing he must deal with is rape. That's what the documentary maker Roger Graef says. | | | | |
0810 | More than a million Cadbury chocolate bars have been taken off shop shelves because of a salmonella scare. | | |
0825 | A look at Listener's Letters. | | |
0831 | Sporting news with Steve May. | | |
0835 | Is our legal system really in need of 'rebalancing'? Lord Falconer. | | |
0847 | Sir Simon Rattle, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, is setting off on a musical journey. | | |
0839 | One of the most powerful and influential men in American television, Aaron Spelling, has died. | | |
0841 | To help the Queen celebrate her 80th Birthday, Paddington Bear and others will be turning Buckingham Palace into a fairytale. | | |
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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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