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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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More fallout in the wake of the release of 10 year old Treasury papers on pension funds. Robin Ellison is Chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds. |
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0715 |
As of todayÌýsmoking in public places in outlawed in Wales. |
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Our reporter Sanchia Berg has found documents which prove thatÌýNazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hiding right under the nose of the British when they called off their hunt for him. |
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0725 |
Business news from Greg Wood. |
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It's 25 years ago today that Argentina invaded the Falklands. Laurie Margolis spent that day talking to the Falklands via amateur radio, before London had even realised the extent of the Argentine action. |
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Sports news from Steve May. |
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As the Home Office put the finishing touches to it's Child Sex Offender Review, they will try to find funding forÌý controversial "circles" projects in which members of the public give support to released sex offenders in an attempt to prevent them reoffending. |
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0740 |
The paper review. |
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0743 |
We return to Sir Ian McKellen as he prepares to playÌýKing Lear for the first time, under the direction of Sir Trevor Nunn. |
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0747 |
Thought for the Day with Reverend Joel Edwards - General Director of the Evangelical Alliance. |
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In a second television appearance by members of theÌýBritish group held in Iran two soldiers seem to agree that they were seized in IranianÌýwaters. |
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The Conservatives intend to raise a commons debate intoÌýpensions decisions made by Gordon Brown 10 years ago. Conservative and former Chancellor Ken Clarke. |
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0820 |
We hear from the new voice of the speaking clock. |
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0830 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0835 |
Brian Hanrahan was with the British forces throughout theÌýFalklands war and has returned to see how things have changed. |
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More than 300 people from all corners of the media have signed a advertisement for the release of our colleague, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú correspondent Alan Johnston. Christianne Amanpour is the chief international correspondent for CNN. |
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Business news and Greg Wood talks to Sir Philip Green aboutÌý Top Shop's planned break into the US. |
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WasÌýÌýAlice really from Sunderland? |
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According to Stephen Yeo, the former advisor to Pension's Secretary David Willets, Gordon Brown was not responsible for the decline of final salary pension schemes. |
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In an attempt to change it's imageÌýLuton is inviting poets to visit and pen an ode. Tony Edwards is from Luton First and Poet John Hegley grew up in the Bedfordshire town. |
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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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