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0709 | Gaza is under attack from Israeli forces. The Israelis say they are determined to secure the release of a soldier captured by Palestinian militants on Sunday. | | |
0715 | There is new guidance on drugs used for treating hypertension advising doctors to move patients away from beta-blockers. | | |
0717 | Major General Peter Wall, the British army's deputy chief of joint operations in Afghanistan, talks about the Taliban and how they are now a force to be reckoned with in the south of the country. | | |
0720 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0723 | Who is Britain's biggest philanthropist? The answer may be a hedge fund. Our business editor, Robert Peston, explains. | | |
0725 | The sports news with Steve May. | | |
0730 | Our reporter Nicola Stanbridge has been looking into why lads mags cause so much anger. | | |
0740 | The people Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides have banned caravans and camper vans from their island, but some caravaners are not prepared to accept it. | | |
0745 | Thought for the Day with Anne Atkins, columnist and novelist. | | |
0750 | Jack Straw will be making a speech about political reform today. He joins us this morning. | | | | |
0810 | We speak to Major General Shaukat Sultan, President Musharraf's press secretary, about the situation in Afghanistan. | | |
0820 | Killing off heroes in fiction is a tricky business. How do you do it successfully. We speak to the authors Ian Rankin and Judith Kerr. | | |
0825 | The sports news with Steve May. | | |
0830 | Captain Jacob Dellal, an Israeli Defence Force Spokesman, speaks to us about the Israeli incursion into Gaza to rescue a captured soldier. | | |
0840 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0845 | Peers will be voting today to elect someone who will become a new fixture in our constitutional arrangement, a Speaker for the House of Lords. | | |
0850 | How far should the fight against cross-border crime in the European Union be governed by the national veto? | | |
0852 | We speak to Josphine Rooney who was due to serve a three month jail sentence for refusing to pay her council tax. She was released yesterday after someone paid her outstanding bill. | | |
0855 | More than 100 years ago the philosopher Nietzsche pronounced that God is dead. Since then, one or two other philosophers have begged to differ, and one or two scientists as well. | | |
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| |  | 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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