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0600 - 0630
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0709 | The Prime Minister has given the go-ahead to splitting the Home Office into two departments. | | |
0712 | The Government's policy for the expansion of casinos was derailed by the Lords last night. We hear from a Labour rebel in the Lords. | | |
0715 | Many dental laboratories are facing closure because new NHS contracts lose them money. | | |
0718 | Zimbabwe is being discussed at a summit of regional leaders in Tanzania. | | |
0728 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0730 | The sports news with Steve May. | | |
0735 | Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, has been blamed for the farm payments fiasco. | | |
0740 | Images of sailor Faye Turney were broadcast by the Iranians. We talk to John Nichol, who was captured and broadcast in Iraq. | | |
0745 | The paper review. | | |
0750 | Would you watch cheese mature live on the internet? | | |
0750 | Thought for the Day with the Rev James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool. | | |
0750 | Where does yesterday's vote in the House of Lords leave Tessa Jowell's casino plans? | | | | |
0810 | What will happen to the marines and sailors being held in Iran? | | |
0820 | John Denham, former Home Office minister and chair of the Commons home affairs select committee, on the Home Office break-up. | | |
0825 | Should MPs subject themselves to interviews by children? | | |
0830 | The sports news with Steve May. | | |
0835 | We talk to Lord Rogers who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize. | | |
0840 | The business update with Greg Wood. | | |
0845 | Migration Watch says 200 homes will be needed every day for the next 19 years to house England's growing immigrant population. | | |
0850 | The world's first ever "green" car show will take place at the Eden Project in Cornwall. | | |
0855 | Shadow home secretary David Davis on the reorganisation of the Home Office. | | |
0858 | If you want to be a writer and you are the offspring of a popular author, is it best to conceal your famous relation? | | |
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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.
(20/04/04).
| | | | 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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