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0709 | Nicholas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal are fighting a close battle for the French elections. | | |
0718 | Dr Alastair McDonnell MP talks about the problems that Northern Ireland may face when it begins to govern itself again next Tuesday. | | |
0722 | Business update with Greg Wood. | | |
0725 | The future of the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert must be in question this morning after the call for his resignation from his own Foreign Minister yesterday. | | |
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| Senior adviser to the Met's Operation Trident, Claudia Webb suggests that social services should play a role in tackling gang violence. | | |
0728 | Sports update with Steve May. | | |
0730 | We talk to the detective chief superintendent David Tucker about the investigation into the murder of Paul Kelly who was stabbed to death outside a pub in Bath on New Year's Day. | | |
0735 | A growing number of Indian women are being used as egg donors and surrogate mothers for British couples. | | |
0743 | Essayist and mathematician Nassim Nicholas Taleb has developed a "black swan theory". | | |
0751 | The thought for the day with Reverend Angela Tilby. | | |
0756 | Consul general at the American Embassy in London, John Caulfield and Dr Stefan Halper of the Centre of International Studies at Cambridge talk about whether this week's terrorism trial could lead to tighter restrictions on British people travelling to the United States. | | | | |
0810 | Childcare lawyer, Peter Herbert and Ian Johnstone of the British Association of Social Workers discuss how increasingly more children are being sucked into a violent culture. | | |
0822 | We talk to Miri Eisin, spokesperson of the Israel's Prime Minister, about calls for Ehud Olmert's resignation. | | |
0825 | Scholar and historian Lisa Jardine and the author Blake Morrison discuss what books best sum up the spirit of the Blair years. | | |
0830 | Sports update with Steve May. | | |
0835 | Professor at LSE Richard Layard and John Bangs of the National Union of Teachers discuss whether teachers should instruct children in emotional intelligence and happiness. | | |
0840 | Business update with Greg Wood. | | |
0845 | Police in the West of Scotland are piloting a scheme to use nurses in order to tackle violent crime. | | |
0850 | Composers John Rutter and John Tavener discuss whether one needs to believe in God to write religious music. | | |
0855 | Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb puts his "black swan theory" into practice. | | |
0857 | Edward Luttwak of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington thinks that we pay too much attention to the Middle East region. | | |
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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.
(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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