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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600-0630
0630-0700 |
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0711 |
Director of the University of Virginia's Centre for Politics, Larry Sabato talks about the relationship between George W. Bush and Tony Blair. |
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Thomas Bell of the Marine Conservation Society says our beaches are getting cleaner as the country gets drier. |
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0717 |
Business news with Rebecca Marston. |
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0720
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A rapid escalation of violence in the Somalian capital Mogadishu has prompted senior politicians to call for international help. |
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0726 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0730 |
Professor of public health at Edinburgh University, Allyson Pollock and Mike Parrish of Care UK discuss the effectiveness of private firms running NHS doctor's surgeries to serve patients on Saturdays and in the evenings. |
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0740 |
Professor Sir John Pendry has written a formula for an invisibility cloak. |
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0745 |
An exhibition at the Imperial War Museum North, in Manchester, opens tomorrow which looks at the lives of those bombers who died during the Second World War. |
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0750 |
TheÌýthought for the day with Dr Mona Siddiqui. |
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The man who published cartoons of the prophet Mohammed in Denmark, Flemming Rose, is debating free speech at the Oxford union today. |
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0810 |
Under Secretary of the UN, Anwaral F. Chowdhury and Sir Jeremy Greenstock, former UK ambassador to Iraq and UN, discuss Tony Blair's visit to Washington. |
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0820 |
A drought order banning all non-essential use of water is being brought into force in Surrey tomorrow despite the recent wet spells. |
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0826 |
Sports update with Steve May. |
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0830 |
The Liberal Democrat leaderÌýSir Menzies Campbell is demanding tougher treatment of serious offenders. |
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0845 |
Professor John Brookfield discusses which one came first: the chicken or the egg. |
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0840 |
Business update with Rebecca Marston. |
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0835 |
The footballer, Carlos Alberto and the Bassetlaw MP John Mann talk about a Brazilian workshop project Nottinghamshire. |
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0850 |
The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has given the Hamas government ten days to recognise Israel or face a national referendum on 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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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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