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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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A huge anti-pollution effort is underway to stop the cargo ship MSC Napoli from causing any more environmental damage. |
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One of the police officers arrested in the course of the ombudsman's investigation into collusion between police and paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, Johnston "jonty" Brown, says that Nuala O'Loan's report won't tell the whole truth. |
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Health minister with responsibility for the elderly, Ivan Lewis, is concerned aboutÌýmeal provisions for older people in care homes. |
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Business news with Greg Wood. |
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0730 |
Sports update with Garry Richardson. |
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Chief executive of British Airways, Willie Walsh and Jack Dromey, deputy general secretary of the T&G, give us an insight into the argument between BA and its cabin staff. |
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TheÌýwhale that caused a sensation when it got stuck in the Thames last year is on display at the Guardian's archive and visitor centre. |
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TheÌýthought for the day with Canon David Winter. |
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Former government advisor on transport, professor David Begg and Anthony Smith, chief executive of the rail watchdog Passenger Focus, discuss why rail commuters between Bristol and Bath may be so dissatisfied with the train service. |
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Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Hain and Raymond McCord, a Protestant whose son was beaten to death by killers in the Ulster Volunteer Force, talk about the ombudsman's report out today. |
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The Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow is going to feature a series of songs by Ewan MacColl based on the lives of labourers and originally broadcasted by the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú. |
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Sports update with Garry Richardson. |
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0827 |
Two millionÌýIraqis have left the country since the war in 2003. |
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Business update with Greg Wood. |
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Head of Assessment and Research at Dyslexia Action, Dr John Rack and professor Heather Van Der Lely from UCL talk about new tests that help to recognise dyslexia and other similar conditions in children. |
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Hillary Clinton is off and running to try to be the first woman to be elected President of the United States. |
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Labour peer Helena Kennedy is starting a campaign aimed at making people more turned on by politics. |
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Allergy UK's Lindsey McManus and Helen Stracey, from the British Dietetic Association, discuss how we should be dealing with food allergies. |
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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)
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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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