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0709 Official results of the presidential race in Zimbabwe have not been released, how are the media covering the situation?
0714 Home Office minister, Tony McNulty, on proposals to extend the detention of terror suspects.
0718 Business with Greg Wood.
0721 An update on the news of the death of television presenter, Mark Speight.
0722 Why Iraqi refugees in the UK may have to return to violent parts of their own country.
0725 Sport with Rob Bonnett.
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0731 We debate whether it's time for the government to get tough with the banks in return for more support from the Bank of England.
0737 We speak to the man who left a 17th Century violin on a train and who hasn't seen it since.
0740 Today's papers.
0743 A new report suggests the government is right to use private firms to move people off benefits.
0746 We ask if biofuels are the answer to the world energy shortage or whether they cause more harm than good?
0754 Thought for the Day with Clifford Longley.
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0810 The Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears, tells the programme that people in Britain are enduring "difficult times."
0822 Our East Africa Correspondent, Adam Mynott reports on the deaths of two British teachers.
0824 Does a poem have to rhyme to be a proper poem? The Queen's English Society thinks it does and we ask them why.
0829 Sport with Rob Bonnett.
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0834 We hear the confessions of a travel writer who admits he cut a few corners when coming up with his guides.
0839 Kevin Connolly looks at the changing nature of Catholicism in the United States of America.
0843 Business with Greg Wood.
0843 What does the Madeleine McCann case tell us about British journalism and the laws on libel & contempt of court?
0848 Sir Harrison Birtwistle on how his latest opera was inspired by the myth of the Minotaur.
0854The plot to kidnap a Prime Minister, hushed up for more than forty years.
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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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