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0709 | A gunman has carried out mass murder on a Virginia University Campus. | | |
0712 | The former Ulster Unionist leader Lord Trimble has joined the conservatives. | | |
0716 | In the business news, Tesco has announced record profits. | | |
0720 | Is the contentment of young people linked with their trust in the Government and lawmakers? We speak to former independent MP Martin Bell. | | |
0727 | The sports news with Garry Richardson | | |
0730 | Britain is raising a debate in the UN security council over the effect of climate change on peace and security. | | |
0736 | Julian Gough's "The Orphan and the Mob" has been shortlisted for the National Short Story Prize. | | |
0742 | Thought for the day with the Right Reverend Tom Butler. | | |
0753 | Did the government exaggerate the benefits of bringing the Olympics to London? We talk to the Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell. | | | | |
0810 | Shock and disbelief is being expressed across America after the worst mass shooting in it's history. Our correspondent Justin Webb reports from the scene. | | |
0820 | John Humphrys, or a "sample" of him, has broken into the music scene. | | |
0827 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | | |
0830 | Has cost cutting in the NHS meant that student nurses are being left in sole charge of patients? | | |
0834 | What are the prospects for the candidates on the extreme left and right in this weeks presidential election in France? | | |
0839 | Could you spot a fraudster in your office? | | |
0843 | The UK Biobank, storing genetic data of half a million people, has started recruiting in Manchester. | | |
0847 | The Green Party launches its local elections manifesto today. | | |
0855 | How will America make sense of the latest college mass murder? We speak to Crystal, a survivor from the Columbine massacre. | | |
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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.
(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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