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0709: The Chancellor Alastair Darling delivers his first Budget today. But what will it mean for the business community?
0712: A postmortem takes place this morning on the body of the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, Michael Todd, found dead in Snowdonia yesterday.
0715: Northern Ireland, north Wales and north west England are being pounded by gales and heavy rain in the second band of storms to hit the UK in three days.
0717: Professor Gary Habermas talks of his claim that there's historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
0725: Sport with Garry Richardson.
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0730: The search for Shannon Matthews is now one of the biggest of its kind undertaken by West Yorkshire Police. We speak to her mother, Karen Matthews, and mother's partner, Craig Meehan.
0739: A look at the day's papers.
0742: New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer has been told to step down or face impeachment proceedings over allegations that he hired a prostitute.
0744: We find out if a dull Budget makes for good politics.
0747: Thought for the Day with Reverend Roy Jenkins.
0750: The FA tell us why they've ordered one league to abandon its no tolerance initiative on swearing.
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0810: Chancellor Alistair Darling is expected to announce higher taxes on alcohol and the most polluting cars when he unveils his first Budget later today.
0819: Iranians go to the polls on Friday to vote in parliamentary elections. We speak to world affairs editor John Simpson.
0822: Artist Gavin Turk discusses the pressures on students and staff at British art colleges.
0827: Sport with Garry Richardson.
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0835: We speak to Eli Moyall, Mayor of the Israeli city Sderot, about life in the Middle East.
0846: How the news would sound with children in charge.
0851: Writer John Harris defends what Van Morrison called 'the propaganda magazines'.
0855: In the third of her reports looking back at the countdown to war in Iraq, Sanchia Berg speaks to Sir Jeremy Greenstock then Britain's Ambassador at the UN.
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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.
| |  | Gil Scott-Heron (04/03/2008)
Life hasn't been easy for the 'god-father of rap', but as US politics gets interesting again, he's making a comeback. | | | | Zbigniew Brzezinski (01/02/08)
He used to be Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, and now he's advising presidential candidate Senator Obama. We hear his vision for US Foreign policy.
| | | | 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 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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