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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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Six men are fighting for their lives after taking part in clinical trials for a new drug. Some are said to have suffered multiple organ failure. The watchdog which oversees such tests - the MHRA - has suspended the trial. It's chief executive, Professor Kent Woods, joins us. |
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The government'sÌýeducation bill for England is finally before the Commons. The Conservatives have said they will help Tony Blair to get his bill, but they may well join Labour rebels tonight in voting against the government's timetable for the bill. The Shadow Education Secretary, David Willetts, tells us more.
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0718 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0720 |
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has cut short a European visit to go home to the crisis caused by the Israeli storming of the jail in Jericho where the assassin of an Israeli minister five years ago was being held.ÌýEdward Macmillan-Scott, the conservative MEP who's vice chairman of the Euorpean parliament met Mr Abbas in Strasbourg. |
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The sports news with Gary Richardson, who is at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. |
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0730 |
Many people who have found that theirÌýpensions have either disappeared or been cut heavily after their employers went bust have been supported by the Parliamentary Ombudsman in their complaints about government assurances they were given. The Work and Pensions Secretary, John Hutton, joins us. |
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0740 |
Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi and his opponent in April's general election, Romano Prodi, have gone head to head in a live television debate. |
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0745 |
Thought for the day with Akhandadhi Das,Ìýa Vaishnav Hindu teacher and theologian. |
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0750 |
It was the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's founding mission to "inform, educate and entertain" but in future its role must also include the further aims of "sustaining citizenship and civil society", as well as "stimulating creativity". That is part of the overhaul in what has been described as the biggest shake-up in the history of the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú. So what's it going to mean to you the listener , and viewer?ÌýThe Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú chairman Michael Grade talks to us. |
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Tony Blair has described the education bill as "the crux of what a Labour government is all about". But tonight he may have to rely on Conservative votes to allow the bill to start its parliamentary progress. We talk to a former member of the cabinet, David Blunkett. |
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0820 |
The largest ever study of the genetic and environmental causes of disease is being launched today. It's call the UK Biobank projectÌýUK Biobank project and it willÌýtake DNA samples and detailed medical histories from half a million people to build a database that can be then be used by researchers to try to establish the causes of disease. |
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0826 |
TheÌýsports news with Gary Richardson. |
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0830 |
The situation in Gaza is very serious, after a raid by the Israeli army on a prison in Jericho that sparked violent protests. Daniel Machover, the British solicitor for one of the prisoners, Ahmed Saadat, and Daniel Shek, Director of theÌý British Israel Communications and Research Centre and a fromer advisor to Shimon Peres, join the programme. |
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As we heard earlier the largest ever study of the genetic and environmental causes of disease is being launched today.ÌýDr Mark Walport is director of the Wellcome TrustÌýwhich is funding the project.
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0840 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood |
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0845 |
Our reporter, Jon Manel, speaks to a Sheriff from Iowa called Tom Hogan, who has sent 25 restraint chairs to the American detention camp in Guantanamo Bay. One of the camp detainee's allegations was that some prisoners on hunger strike were being strapped to "special, new metal chairs" to be force fed. |
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Five men were arrested today over their alleged role in protests against cartoons satirising the Prophet Mohammed. |
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Six men remain in intensive care after being taken ill during a clinical drugs trial in north-west London.ÌýDr Michael Rivlin is a lecturer in medical ethics at Leeds University. |
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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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