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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business.
0600-0630
0630-0700
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At least 53 people, many of them tourists, have died after a boat sank off the coast of Bahrain. |
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0714 |
David Cameron has joined the row over DEFRA's failure to pay farm subsides. Martin Caswell, a Lincolnshire farmer, joins us. |
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0719 |
As political unrest in the Labour party continues unabated, even former loyalists are expected to ask TonyÌýBlair to announce a timetable for his departure. |
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0721 |
Business with Rebecca Marston. |
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0723 |
Anti-war protests are being stagedÌýin the North West for the visitÌýofÌýCondoleezza Rice. |
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0727 |
Sports news with Mary Rhodes. |
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0730 |
A Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú report claims that not only has extraordinaryÌýrendition taken place in British airspace,Ìýbut the Foreign Office have failed to investigate the matter. Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, joins us. |
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0740 |
Neutrinos, one of the sub-atomic building blocks of matter, have just been weighed and the results have shaken the world of physics.ÌýDr Lisa Falk Harris, a lecturer at Sussex, worked on the research. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Rev Dr Alan Billings - Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University. |
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0750 |
Former Foreign Secretary Lord Hurd and Rosemary Hollis, Head of the Middle East programme at Chatham House, preview Condoleezza Rice's visit to Blackburn today, including her lecture for the Today Programme. |
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0810 |
Dentists must decide whether to stay within the NHS today, despite anger over new contracts. Susie Sanderson, chair of the British Dental Association Executive Board, and Health Services Minister Rosie Winterton, join us. |
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0820 |
The designer Wayne Hemingway and Beatles expert Hunter Davies, offer Condoleezza Rice a guide to Blackburn. |
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0827 |
Sports news with Mary Rhodes. |
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0830 |
Trade and Industry Secretary Alan Johnson has accused America of hypocrisy in itsÌýstance on trade; we hear from the Deputy US Trade Representative Karan Bhatia. |
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0838 |
Three earthquakes have rocked western Iran, killing at least 50. |
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0840 |
Business with Rebecca Marston. |
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Are gloomy predictions aboutÌý climate change resulting in a disillusioned fatalism amongst the public? Professor James Lovelock, joins us. |
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0850 |
Bird charities have issued a statement calling for people to view the threat of bird flu in perspective, following violent attacks onÌýbirds nests and habitats in France and Russia. |
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Teachers unions are dismayed by research which suggests that groups of children should be left to sort out their own differences. Chris Keates, General Secretary of NASUWT, and Professor Peter Blatchford from the Institute of Education, discuss the issue. |
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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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