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0709 Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, has said听the MPs expenses controversy is damaging public confidence.
0712 The government is expected to confirm that it's capping the budgets of five English police authorities. John Andrews reports.
0715 As the fighting continues in Basra. We speak to a resident of the city who describes conditions for ordinary people there.
0720 Business With Greg Wood.
0723 The people of Zimbabwe will be voting in elections on Saturday and President Robert Mugabe is seeking another term in office. Peter Biles reports.
0725 Sport with Rob Nothman.
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0730 Are children at risk from video games? We ask child psychologist, Dr Tanya Byron.
0735 Today's papers.
0740 Every March Japanese weather agency officials are despatched to check whether certain trees have bloomed yet and this year they have blossomed six days early.
0745 Thought for the Day with Reverend Angela Tilby.
0750听The defence opens to today at the General Medical Council in the case of three doctors who are accused of serious professional misconduct in allegations made against the safety of the MMR vaccine. |
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0810听The way we treat asylum seekers "falls seriously below the standards to be expected of a humane and civilised society". This grave charge is levelled at our country by an independent commission.
0820 The government's taking action against rises which ministers regard as excessive by capping the budgets of up to five police authorities.
0825 Sport with Rob Nothman. |
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0830 We speak to Chief Justice Lord Woolf ahead of his collection of lectures he is about to give about our law system.
0840听Howard Brenton has written a play starring Jeremy Irons as the former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
0843 Business with greg Wood
0845 Scientists are warning that plastic waste in the oceans poses a long-term toxic threat to the food chain.
0850听Will the 'Barrack Effect' encourage us to create minority shortlists in this country to boost non-white representation in Parliament?
0855 The first passengers will walk through Terminal 5 at Heathrow today. BAA, the airport operator, boasts that it will give you a good "passenger experience". |
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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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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听 comeback. |
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(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.
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(26/11/07)
The legendary Jazz saxophonist听talks about his time in prison, phone calls with听John Coltrane,听9/11 and the ambitions of a Jazz survivor. |
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(17/11/07)
James Naughtie asks the President of Pakistan when he will听lift his country's state of emergency and what he is doing to tackle Islamist Terrorism. |
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