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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business. |
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0630-0700
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The public accounts committee of the house of commons has concluded that the government is failing to meet its targets on removing failed asylum seekers from the country. The chairman of the committee, Edward Leigh, and Maeve Sherlock, who runs the refugee council, join the programme. |
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0715 |
Ben Griffin was an SAS soldier in Iraq, who left because he didn't like some of the things he saw. He tells the programme about his reasons for leaving. |
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0718 |
Doctors have revealed they may have found a way of reversingÌýheart disease using a powerful new cholesterol-reducing drug. Professor Peter Weisburg medical director of the British Heart Foundation, tells us more. |
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0720 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0724 |
Some new evidence has emerged that there are 'major issues of patient safety' with the new computer system the government is planning for the NHS. We speak to the Conservative member of the public accounts committee, Richard Bacon, and the health minister, Lord Warner. |
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0726 |
The sports news with Steve May, who is at the Cheltenham Festival. |
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0730 |
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, will be making a strong defence ofÌýfaith schools today. We speak to Canon John Hall the chief education officer for the Church of England, and Dr Evan Harris, a Liberal Democrat MP and prominent member of the national secular society. |
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0740 |
It is world Pi day today. Kate Bush sung a song about Pi, a long number starting with 3.14, but got it wrong. Marcus du Sautoy, professor of mathematics at Oxford University, tells us why. |
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0745 |
Thought For The Day with the Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool. |
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0750 |
David Walker is the Comptroller General of the United States. His department, the Government Accountability Office, monitors the way the US government spends its money, and he is in the UK to deliver a lecture which will deliver a sharp warning about that. |
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0810 |
For many years immigration has been one of the most sensitive issues in British politics. The government promised it would remove failed asylum applicants, and set a target for last December, and then February. It missed both targets. We speak to the shadow home secretary, David Davis, and the Immigration minister, Tony McNulty. |
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0820 |
There's a report in the Times today suggesting that when Lord Phillips of Worth Maltravers takes over as Lord chief justice next month he's going to reopen the question of the way barristers dress. Tom Little chairs the Young Barristers Committee of the Bar Council and Kirsty Brimelow is a criminal barrister. |
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0826 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0830 |
We speak to Michael Gordon, author of the book 'Cobra II - The inside story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq', and it's inclusion of a leaked memo to Downing street and the Foreign Office. |
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0837 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0845 |
Later this morning the Commons Defence Select Committee will begin hearings into the future of the UK's strategic nuclear defence capability. Tony Blair has said the decision on whether or not to replace Trident will be taken within this Parliament. |
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0850 |
TheÌýBroadcasting White Paper is expected to be published today. By the end of the next Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Charter, in 2016, the broadcasting world may be unrecognisable. Professor Patrick Barwise, of the London Business School, and Andrew Walmsley, the founder of the digital advertising agency, i-level, discuss the white paper, and the future of broadcasting. |
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Some of Our Less Memorable Moments
These infamous sound clips have risen from the Today vaults again to haunt our newsreaders and presenters. Enjoy!
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Can of what John?
John gets confused over the expression, 'opened a can of worms.'
- 18th March 2005 |
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What is our website and email address John?
John gets confused about all this modern technology and it's David Blunkett Jim!
- 22 December 2004 |
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Who's reading the news Sarah?
Sarah introduces a guest newsreader. And it's catching, asÌýNick Clarke of the World at One demonstrates
- 4/5th October 2004 |
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The boy who likes to say YES!
Sports presenter Steve May is left trying desperately to get his seven year old guest to say something other than yes!
- 23rd September 2004 |
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When the technology failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004 |
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Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 25th October 2003 |
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Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002 |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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What is Charlotte Green giggling about?
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John and Jim share a joke about the weather? |
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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.
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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.ÌýA 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 thatÌýthe Home Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the Home 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, inÌýRome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
Part 1
Part 2 |
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First Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaksÌýto our reporter Zubeida Malik aboutÌýhis ordeal and how heÌýcontinues toÌýcampaign 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.ÌýFirst 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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General James L. Jones
During his visit toÌý London - the Supreme Commander of Nato talks to James Naughtie about the threat posed to NATO by a stronger EU military force. |
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