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0700 - 0730
0709: The Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has defended his decision to impose emergency rule on grounds of national security.
0712: As ministers from oil producing countries meet in Saudi Arabia, oil is nearly hitting $100 per barrel. Jeremy Legget is an oil geologist.
0715: A look at today's papers.
0720: The inter-governmental panel on climate change have produced another report and it's more serious that the last.
0725: 40 years ago tomorrow Harold Wilson's government devalued sterling, might we be on the brink of having to repeat such a step?
0730: Sports news with Steve May.
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0732: Despite the government acknowledging that climate change is the greatest threat facing the world, it's cutting the budget of the department leading the fight against it.
0738: A health trust in the west midlands has provoked uproar among family doctors over its plans to franchise out GP services.
0742: A look at today's papers.
0745: British astronomers are baffled by the advice of a government quango who wish to pull out of the most powerful observatory in the world. Prof Michel Rowan-Robinson.
0750: Thought for the Day with Brian Draper.
0753: How would Gordon Brown's plans for tougher security at train stations really be put into practice? Dame Pauline Neville-Jones is shadow security minister.
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0800-0830
0810: Bidding for听Northern Rock has closed. The chief executive and four听directors are resigning. So, what happens now? Does the treasury have to keep lending the bank billions?
0820: After last night's record breaking Children in Need programme, we celebrate the tradition of the telethon.
0825: Sports news from Steve May.
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0830-0900
0832: Pakistan's President Musharraf has been defending his decision to impose emergency rule on grounds of national security. James Naughtie has been to Islamabad to speak to him.
0845: A look at today's papers.
0849: Are recent economic developments pushing us toward a repeat of Harold Wilson's 14% cut in the value of the pound?
0856: Does the British premiership's reliance on overseas talent damage the national game? Graeme Le Saux and Tim Harford. |
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We don鈥檛 always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.
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Baroness Sally Morgan Interview
Tony Blair's former Director of Political and Government Relations, Baroness Sally Morgan has given a rare, interview to Today to mark the Prime Minister's departure.
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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.听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"?
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Mouloud Sihali Interview
Mouloud Sihali from Algeria, North Africa, is one of the suspected terrorists that听the 主播大秀 Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the 主播大秀 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. |
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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) |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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Edward Stourton interviews Monsignor Charles Burns, a retired head of the Vatican's Secret Archives, in听Rome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
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Part 2 |
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First 主播大秀 interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaks听to our reporter Zubeida Malik about听his ordeal and how he听continues to听campaign for five Britons still there to be freed. |
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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) |
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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). |
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, about the recent increase of religious violence in Nigeria.
(19/05/04) |
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John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
(03/05/04). |
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Jim Naughtie interviews Bob Woodward.听First Watergate, now a controversial book into events in the White House pre-Iraq war.
(20/04/04).
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Sarah Montague interviews Paul Burrell.
The former royal butler denies betraying Diana, Princess of Wales, insisting his controversial new book was "a loving tribute".
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