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0709 The government wants to settle public sector pay awards over a three year cycle rather than one year.
0712 The Conservatives will today announce how they plan to reform the benefit system.
0717 The Tories are today putting forward a debate on adult education and attacking the government for cutting funds for some mature students.
0719 The business news.
0722 Is the rise in energy prices justified, and can the Chancellor do anything about it?
0725 The sports news.
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0730 Today is primary day in New Hampshire - the milestone in the American presidential campaign.
0738 French President Nicholas Sarkozy gives his first news conference of the year today at a time when his private life is causing a stir in the media.
0744 Matthew Sweeney, one of the writers shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award for Poetry, reads part of his work.
0745 Thought for the day with Dr Reverend Alan Billings.
0749 The government wants public sector pay awards set for three years to bring them in line with the way that budgets for Whitehall departments are set. We speak to Chancellor Alistair Darling.
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0810We look at the political journey of welfare state reform which began 20 years ago in America, and the Tory's new benefit system proposals.
0820 The New Hampshire primary will be decided today.
0825 The sports news.
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0830 David Blunkett the former cabinet minister looks at ways to prevent a growing segregation between rich and poor in this country and increase social mobility.
0842 The business news.
0846 The final report into the chaos that led thousands of young medics to take to the streets in protest last year is published today.
0850 Fiona Sampson, one of the writers shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award for Poetry, reads part of her work.
0852 Are we seeing another change in attitudes to nuclear power?
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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.
| |  | Sonny Rollins (26/11/07)
The legendary Jazz saxophonist talks about his time in prison, phone calls with John Coltrane, 9/11 and the ambitions of a Jazz survivor. | | | | President Pervez Musharraf (17/11/07)
James Naughtie interviews asks the President of Pakistan when he will lift his country's state of emergency and what he is doing to tackle Islamist Terrorism. | | |
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