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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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21Ìýpeople are believed to have died in a plane crash in Indonesia after a passenger jetÌýovershot the runway in Yogyakarta and burst into flames. |
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Half the independent schools in Britain have charitable status. Many of them are highly profitable businesses. Today they will be warned by the charity commission that they will lose their status if they don't meet certain rules. |
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Business News with Greg Wood. |
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Most of us like to beÌýbeside the seaside but living there can be hard, especially for poorer people as there's often high unemployment. |
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Sports News with Steve May. |
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We speak to Michael Grade, who left the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú to work at ITV, and ask him about theÌýcurrent problems ITV are currently facing. |
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A brother and sister in Germany are trying to change the law on incest. They argue that they are being denied the right to sexual freedom. |
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Thought for the DayÌýwith Oliver McTernan - The Director of the NGO Forward Thinking. |
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The Government has announced a review of its new online application system for recruiting junior doctors, but does the system work effectively? |
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Soldiers from commonwealth countries are launching their own trade union. They claim there is widespread racism, unfair treatment and a lack of welfare support. |
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Evangelical Christians in the U.S are arguing that online encyclopediaÌýWikipediatoo much of a liberal bias. We speak to Andy Schlafly who has now set up Conservapedia as an alternative and Jim Redmond who's an editor and administrator for Wikipedia. |
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Sports Update with Steve May. |
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New information concerning theÌýcash for honours scandal has arisen from a note written by the Downing Street aide Ruth Turner concerning Lord Levy, Labour's chief fundraiser. |
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Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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We speak to geneticist Dr Stephen Oppenheimer who believes the first settlers in Britain spoke aÌýBasque type language rather than Celtic. |
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TheÌýrising cost of livingÌýhas become the single biggest complaint of Iranians. The cost of food and housing has shot up in recent months. Frances Harrison reports. |
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If we think America is bad for trying to run the world in her own image it could be said we were worst. We speak to Steven Grasse author of 'The Evil Empire... 101 ways that England ruined the world' and Christopher Lee, who wrote 'This Sceptred Isle'. |
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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.
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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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