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0709 It's a year ago that a British teacher - Lindsay Ann Hawker - was found murdered in Japan. Her family have travelled there to apply pressure on the authorities to find her killer.
0712 Police say they cannot rule out the possibility that a young boy found abandoned in Southall was the victim of human trafficking. Niki Cardwell reports.
0715 Business with Greg Wood.
0720 A senior union leader is accusing the Government of supporting the lifestyles of the "wealthy and privileged" rather than hardworking families
0723 The number of American soldiers killed in Iraq has hit 4,000. Hugh Sykes reports.
0725 Sport with Rob Nothman.
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0730 It's nine months since people's houses were devasted in the floods. More than ten thousand of them have still not been able to go back to them. Richard Wells reports.
0735 Bob Walker reports from the Behind Closed Doors exhibition in Birmingham.
0740 Today's papers.
0743 For more than a century the tiny Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan has been ruled by its king. However the people are going to the polls today to choose a parliament. Chris Morris reports.
0745 Thought for the Day with Reverend Dr Alan Billings.
0750 Should children have a say in the hiring and assessment of their teachers? We ask Chris Keates, the General Secretary of the teaching union the NAS, and Jessica Gold the the chief executive of School Councils UK.
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0810 Should there be more free votes in Parliament on conscience questions. We speak to Tony Benn and former Conservative Chief Whip Lord Renton.
0815 The Frost Report will be returning on BBC4. We speak to Sir David Frost and the writer Craig Brown.
0820 Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin spoke to Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientist at the Department for the Environment about the benefits of Biofuels.
0825 Sport with Rob Nothman. | | |
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0830 We speak to Bill Hawker, father of Lindsay Ann Hawker, the young British teacher who was murdered in Japan a year ago.
0835 Business with Greg Wood.
0840 Zimbabwe chooses a new president at the weekend. We speak to correspondent Peter Biles, and author Heidi Holland, who had an exceptionally rare interview with Mugabe for her book 'Dinner with Mugabe'.
0845 Women's Studies is to disappear from British Universities as an undergraduate course as of this summer.
0850 The Catholic Labour MP, Jim Devine, tells us about his plans to arrange a meeting between the church and medical specialists.
0855 How much do we want to know, should we know, about the private lives of famous people? We ask the authors Patrick French and Stephen Robinson. | | |
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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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