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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.Ìý
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How can aid agencies help those made homeless by theÌýearthquakes in Yogjakarta? We speak to Craig Owen, from Oxfam, and Dr Roger Musson, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey. |
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The European Commission have recruitedÌýMichael Fish for their campaign to encourage people to save our planet. |
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TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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As part of our programme fromÌýthe South Bank in London, we hear some memories of The Royal Festival Hall. |
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0726 |
A woman who pretended a Jewish child was her daughter, during WWII, has been named as Righteous Among Nations by Israel's Holocaust Memorial Centre.Ìý |
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0730 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0735 |
Is Heathrow Airport one of Britain's great planning catastrophes? We talk to Sir Peter Hall, the professor of planning and regeneration at University College London, and Lord Soley, one of the founders of Future Heathrow.Ìý |
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0739 |
A look at the papers. |
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0741 |
We speak to Michael Foster, a Labour backbencher, about John Prescott. |
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0743 |
Hear aÌýpoem by Lemm Sissay, Poet in Residence at The Royal Festival Hall. |
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0745 |
Thought For The Day with Rev Dr Alan Billings. |
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Thousands of people have been left homeless after theÌýearthquakes in Java. We speak to International Development Secretary Hilary Benn. |
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We speak to Ken Loach, who is the first British film maker to win the Palme d'Or inÌýCannes for ten years. |
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0820 |
We speak toÌýPeter Mandelson about The Royal Festival Hall. |
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0826 |
With their refurbishment, The Royal Festival Hall hopes to improve its acoustic quality. Hear our report. |
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0830 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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ShouldÌýcultural activities be funded by the tax-payer? We speak to Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of The South Bank Centre, and Norman Lebrecht,Ìýfrom the Evening Standard. |
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0840 |
TheÌýÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0845 |
Hear more memories of The Royal Festival Hall. |
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Relief aid is now arriving in Java where thousands of people are left homeless after the earthquake. But how much a difference willÌýthe aidÌýmake? Hear our report. |
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Jude Kelly, Artistic Director of The South Bank Centre, Paco Pena, a flamencoÌýmusician, and Ken Livingstone, the LondonÌýMayor,ÌýaboutÌýThe Royal Festival Hall. |
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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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