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View the full archive of BBC - Today Program Interviews Today: Ashton appointment 'not a fudge' Belgian Prime Minister Herman Von Rompoy and Lady Cathy Ashton have been elected for the new top positions to represent the European Union on the world stage. The appointments have been seen in Brussels as an end to the accretion of power to the EU, with stronger candidates for the roles being overlooked. Lady Ashton discusses her new role. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Vintage Agatha Christie story released A newly-discovered story by crime writer Agatha Christie is to be released in the United States. The short piece, The Incident of the Dog's Ball, was found in the crime author's papers when she died. Crime writer Harry Keating, and managing editor of Strand Magazine, Andrew Gulli, discuss the work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Yes Minister in the Ukraine The classic BBC comedy, Yes Minister, is to be reworked for audiences in the Ukraine. The satirical sitcom, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary next year, has become an international phenomenon and is enjoyed in Turkey, India and Holland. Sir Antony Jay, co-writer of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister, and Andrey Kurkov, a Ukrainian writer and satirist, reflect on the programme's popularity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Cameron: Queen's Speech 'unravelling' The Conservative party have criticised the Queens speech, accusing the government of using it as a "Labour press release on Palace parchment". The party condemned the government for failing to include legislation to tackle MPs' expenses and NHS reform, and Tory peer Lord Strathclyde has threatened to block the proposed bills. David Cameron, leader of the Conservative party, discusses his response to the Queen's speech. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Osama Bin Laden's son 'normal' What is it like to have Osama Bin Laden as your father? New book Growing Up Osama describes the upbringing of Omer and his mother, who fled from his father during the Afghan war. Author Jean Sasson discusses the book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: 'It will be for the public to judge' The Labour party is set to deliver proposals for its election manifesto in the Queens Speech, the last before the general election. Among the bills being considered are the provision of free personal care for thousands in England, and the limiting of banker bonuses. Political editor Nick Robinson comments on the upcoming speech, and Business Secretary Lord Mandelson discusses his party's policies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Tory candidate 'dictators' A Tory parliamentary candidate has fought off a de-selection vote, over revelations of an affair. Liz Truss kept her Norfolk constituency association seat by a comfortable margin. The association were not informed of the affair, despite Westminster knowing of it, exposing tensions between the 'Turnip Taliban' and the 'Notting Hill set' within the Tory party. John Strafford, chairman of the Campaign for Conservative Democracy, and Eric Pickles, chairman of the Conservative Party, discuss the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: 'China is not a global superpower' President Obama has been meeting China's leaders in attempts to seek closer co-operation and trust. China's growing political, economic and military powers are raising concerns in the West. Jonathan Fenby, China director at the Research Service Trusted Sources, and China expert Dr Stephen Tsang, examine the US's relationship with China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Australian migrant 'hell hole' Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologised for the hardship and institutionalised abuse suffered by thousands of British children who were sent to the country up until the 1970s with the promise of a new life. Sydney correspondent Nick Bryant reports on the apology and child migrant John Hennessy describes the terrible treatment he faced when he arrived in Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Financial regulation 'has broken down' The Queen's Speech will be listened to with particular care by bankers who are to learn what the government intends to do to limit their pay. Reforms announced in the speech will give regulators the power to stop bankers from pocketing big bonuses that could destabilize the financial system. Former Chairman of RBS Sir George Mathewson and chairman of the Treasury Select Committee John McFall discuss the proposals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: 'No evidence' of endemic abuse in UK forces The Ministry of Defence has said it is investigating 33 new allegations of abuse by the UK military in Iraq. Armed Forces minister Bill Rammell said the claims were being taken "with the utmost seriousness". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Neurons ready...go The World Memory Championships are taking place in London. Contestants have to memorise long streams of numbers or the sequence of 35 entire decks of cards. Reporter Sanchia Berg went along to speak the world's top brain athletes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: 'A lot more to do' in Afghanistan Gordon Brown's leadership has been dictated by the war in Afghanistan. 232 British lives have been lost, the majority under his government. Public opinion is mounting against continued British presence in Afghanistan, and the Obama administration's position on the war is undecided. Gordon Brown discusses the future of his Afghanistan policy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: British Pakistanis on the media Are young people turning to Islamic, Pakistani, Middle Eastern channels in Britain for news on their loved ones and events in Pakistan? Zubeida Malik spoke to British Pakistanis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: New nursing rules 'will add skills to compassion' All new nurses in England will need to have a degree from 2013. The minimum level for pre-registration courses will be raised from diploma to degree level, making nurses better equipped to improve the quality of patient care. Chief nursing officer Christine Beasley, and Gail Adams, head of nursing at trade union Unison, discuss the implications of increasing the educational level of nurses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Is shorthand a dying skill? The use of shorthand has long been an important journalistic tool, but the growing use of recording devices is threatening the skill. Kim Fletcher, chairman of the National Council for the Training of Journalists, comments on the future of shorthand, and Today presenter John Humphrys tests his shorthand skills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Bosnia's 'heightened tensions' Bosnian leaders are meeting tomorrow to try and resolve long-standing divisions which many fear could lead to a new civil war. Correspondent Edward Stourton reports from the Bosnian Serb town of Banja Luka. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Tories outline DNA profile policy The DNA profiles of innocent people arrested in England and Wales will be kept for six years and not indefinitely under new government proposals. The changes will be put before the European Court of Human Rights, which had ruled the current policy unlawful. Police have defended the system, which it says has led to the solving of crimes, but human rights groups are unhappy with the compromise. Julie Bindel from the campaign group Justice for Women and the shadow home secretary Chris Grayling ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Tories 'will look at causes of poverty' David Cameron has long accused Labour, and what he describes as "big government", of failing the poor. Today he will set out his party's policies to combat poverty and reform the welfare system. Mr Cameron will say the government is guilty of a moral failure, creating a welfare system that tells young girls having children before finding work and a loving relationship means a home and cash. Shadow secretary for work and pension Theresa May, and Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper deba ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today: Crime: Worse in the UK or Baltimore? How dangerous are Britain's streets? In a speech in August the Shadow home secretary, Christopher Grayling, claimed that "The Wire used to be just a work of fiction for British viewers. But under this government, in many parts of British cities, The Wire has become a part of real life in this country too. Far too many of those features of what we have always seen as a US phenomenon are now to be found on the streets of Britain as well". To put Mr Grayling's words to the test the Independent ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website