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0710 | As an international force for Southern Lebanon takes shape, disappointment is being voiced at the contribution from European countries.
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0715 | The government has announced six large NHS hospitals funded though Private Finance Initiatives. We discuss the pros and cons. | | |
0720 | The business news with Rebecca Marston | | |
0723 | We report on the alleged murders by medical staff during Hurricane Katrina. | | |
0728 | The sports news with Steve May. | | |
0734 | Your passions have been deeply stirred by the subject of refuse. We look further into the problems caused when councils try to force the issue of recycling.
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0737 | What are we to make of the fact that George Bush read Camus' existential classic L'Etranger on holiday in Texas? | | |
0745 | Thought for the day with Reverend Roy Jenkins - Baptist Minister in Cardiff | | |
0750 | Did Gunter Grass managed to salvage his reputation in last night's TV appearance? | | | | |
0810 | The UN is having problems finding the 3,500 troops it needs to secure the ceasefire in southern Lebanon. We ask a commander from the war in Bosnia, General Lewis MacKenzie, whether a lasting settlement can be achieved. | | |
0820 | The photojournalist Nick Danziger has been to India, Mozambique and Russia to photograph the victims of the Aids crisis. | | |
0827 | The sports news with Steve May. | | |
0835 | We look at the case of an illegal immigrant arrested shortly after being interviewed for our investigation into failings in the immigration service. | | |
0838 | Could the war in Lebanon cost the Israeli Prime Minister his job? | | |
0840 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | | |
0846 | We go to Walthamstow to assess the impact of the alleged terror plot on an area where a number of the suspects live. | | |
0849 | As momentum grows for military pardons we talk to Labour MP Anne Begg who is taking up the case of those involved in the "Salerno mutiny" of 1943. | | |
0853 | We get an update on the father in Crete who tried to commit suicide by leaping off a balcony clutching his children. | | |
0856 | Members of the public can now join a virtual orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall's PLAY.orchestra project. | | |
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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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