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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.Ìý
0600 - 0630
0630 - 0700 |
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Can theÌýNHS really be enjoying its "best year ever"? That is what the Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt claimed yesterday. We speak to Ann Leedham Smith, a regional director for the Royal College of Nursing, and Judith Wharley, who has been nursing in Birmingham for the past 29 years. |
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A new body called theÌýChild Exploitation and Online Protection Centre begins work today. We talk to Jim Gamble who will be running it. |
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0717 |
Hear our report fromÌýAfghanistan as John Reid begins the second day of his trip to the country. |
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0722 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0725 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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0732 |
A woman convicted of poisoning a child with salt has told the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú that she will be appealing on the basis of new medical evidence. Hear our report. |
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0736 |
A look at the papers. |
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0742 |
David Cameron will show off his newÌýlow carbon car today - a Lexus. Did he choose the right car? The motoring journalist Quentin Wilson gives us his opinion. |
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0745 |
An exhibition is opening in Oxford which charts the earliest days of radio. Hear our report. |
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0750 |
Thought For The Day with the religious commentator, Clifford Longley. |
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We speak to the Defence Secretary,Dr John Reid, who is in Afghanistan. |
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0810 |
The health secretary Patricia Hewitt has claimed that this is the "best year ever" for the NHS. We speak to the heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub, Karol Sikora, a Professor of Cancer Medicine, and Dame Gill Morgan, from The NHS Confederation.Ìý |
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0825 |
Greg Cullen has written a play called 'Paul Robeson Knew My Father' which is about Robeson's connections to Wales. We speak to him and Sir Willard White, who is singing in a tribute to the great man at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London tonight. |
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0828 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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The Royal Shakespeare Company is beginning a year long performance of all Shakespeare's plays.ÌýJim Naughtie was there for the launch in Stratford-upon-Avon.Ìý |
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0838 |
TheÌýbusiness update with Greg Wood. |
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0840 |
What are we to make of the latest Bin Laden tape? We talk to Dr Youssef Choueiri of Manchester University. |
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0843 |
The 1841 census, the first census to detail who lives where, is available online from today. We speak to Dr Sarah Richardson, a historian at Warwick University. |
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0847 |
Hear how our sports presenter Mary Rhodes did in yesterday's London Marathon. |
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0850 |
The American academic, Professor John Gillingham poses this question in his new book - "what is said of old soldiers also applies to bureaucracies that have had their day; thy never die, they just fade away. Will the same also be true of the European Union?". We speak to Professor Gillingham and Jacki Davies, of the European Policy Centre. |
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Sir Willard White sings a songÌýin tribute to Paul Robeson. |
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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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