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0709 Zimbabwe's main opposition party starts legal action today to force the country's electoral commission to release the results of last weekend's election.
0712 The Duke of Edinburgh has spent a second night in hospital, being treated for a chest infection.
0715 Today's papers.
0717 Will people who earn just a over the minimum wage lose the most as a result of the tax changes in Gordon Brown's last budget? We speak to Robert Chote, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
0720 Heathrow's Terminal Five is expecting to run a full schedule of flights today.
0725 Sport with Arlo White. |
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0730 Has the US surge strategy in Iraq been vindicated by a fall in American casualties? We speak to the New York Times' Michael Gordon from Baghdad.
0735 Today's papers.
0740 We speak to physicist Professor Michio Kaku about his new book 'The Physics of the Impossible'.
0745 Thought for the Day with Reverend Rob Marshall.
0750 President Mugabe's own party, Zanu-PF, has endorsed him to stand in a second round if the electoral commission declares that there was no clear winner in last Saturday's poll. |
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0800-0830
0810听The arrival of the Olympic torch in London today is expected to be accompanied by more protests at China's reaction to the recent demonstrations in Tibet.
0815 Is it too soon to hope that the worst of the 'credit crunch' is over? We ask George Magnus, senior economic adviser to the Swiss bank UBS.
0820听We speak to Will Gaines, one of the last surviving jazz tap dancers, who is celebrating his 80th birthday tomorrow.
0825 Sport with Arlo White. |
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0830听Some Labour MPs oppose scrapping the 10 percent rate of income tax. We ask the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Jane Kennedy, whether the changes will disadvantage the poor.
0835 Today's papers.
0840 We ask the poets Ian Macmillan and Danny Abse for their thoughts on this weekend's peculiar FA cup semi-finals.
0845听Sufiah Yusof was a child prodigy, but her life didn't turn out as many expected. Zubeida Malik reports.
0850 Is Robert Mugabe a dictator considering there are still many symbols of democracy in Zimbabwe?
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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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