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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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Is our security being put at risk because the Government has failed to tackle the problem ofÌýre-offending by young men? We speak Finola Farrant, from The Howard League for Penal Reform, and Anne Owers, the Chief Inspector of Prisons. |
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Hear the latest news about the five British servicemen who were in theÌýhelicopter that was shot down over Basra on Friday. |
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0722 |
People who missed their appointments cost theÌýNHS £614 million last year. The Conservative MP Grant Shapps got hold of the figures. |
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0725 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0727 |
It is the first day in the White House for the new press secretary, the former Fox News radio host Tony Snow. Hear our report. |
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0730 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0735 |
Is theÌýLabour Party in a state of 'civil war'? We speak to David Blunkett, a former Labour minister. |
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0737 |
A look at the papers. |
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0742 |
Should the city of Bristol formally apologise for the slave trade? We talk to Paul Stephenson, a civil rights campaigner in Bristol, and Richard Eddy, a local Conservative councillor. |
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0745 |
Thought For The Daywith Rabbi Lionel Blue. |
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The House of Lords will be considering the Joffe Bill this week -Ìýa bill which would allow terminally ill patients to seek medical help to die. We speak to John Keown, a Professorof Christian Ethics at Georgetown University, and Chris Davies, a Liberal Democrat MEP. |
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0810 |
Tony Blair will meet his Labour back benchers this evening - what reception can he expect? There are plenty who are prepared to call for him to go and some are prepared to sign the letter demanding that he should set a date. We speak to Andrew Smith, once a cabinet minister and loyal Blairite, and the LabourÌýchief whip Jacqui Smith. |
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0821 |
The UK Poetry Society says there is aÌýpoetic revival going on in Britain and we are missing it. We speak to Ruth Padel, their chairman, and Bryan Appleyard, who writes for The Sunday Times. |
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0827 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0838 |
Save the Children has found evidence that UN troops and aid workers are still exploiting young girls in the West African state of Liberia. Hear our report. |
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0840 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0843 |
DoesÌýMiddle England still exist? Or is it just a useful notion for politicians and marketing types? |
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Scientists studying the health effects of power lines are calling for more research into a phenomenon known as electronic smog. Hear our report. |
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We reported earlier that Margaret Beckett is off on her first trip as Foreign Secretary, but what is it like picking up a new ministerial job? We speak to the former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke and Lord Armstrong, who was Cabinet Secretary in the 1980s. |
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Nick Robinson gives us the latest news from Westminster. |
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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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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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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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