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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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0709 Wasting prescription drugs is costing the Health Service over £200 million a year. We are joined by reporter Jon Manel and Professor Mayur Lakhani, Chariman of the Royal College of GPs.
0712 Paul Wolfowitz hasÌýresigned asÌýPresident of the World Bank. His effort to survive the controversy over the treatment of a bank employee who he was in a relationship with failed late last night. James Coomarasamy reports from Washington.
0715 Business News with Greg Wood.
0720 The Israeli air force has attacked Gaza, killing at least six people and wounded many more. We speak to Professor Manuel Hassassian.
0725 Sports News with Steve May.Ìý
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0730 Despite Gordon Brown having said he wants politics to become more transparent today MPs will be given the chance to exempt themselves from the Freedom of Information Act.
0740 Today's Papers.
0742 The Cannes film festival is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sir Laurence Olivier's birthday by showing 3 digitally remastered versions of his great Shakespearean films.
0745 Thought for the day with Catherine Pepinster - Editor of the Tablet.
0750 An inquest jury has criticised Leeds prison in relation to the death of a prisoner who was put in a cell with a dangerous man who killed him within half an hour of their being locked up together. We speak to the victim's widow Parveen Mahmoud. |
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0810 The Children's Society is calling on the government today to establish a national "safety net" to help children who runaway from home. Polly Billington talks to a mother whose daughter ran away from home.
0820 British Airways has said it's setting aside three hundred and fifty million pounds to cover possible fines for breaking competition laws. Robert Peston reports.
0822 We discuss the real cost of a holiday. It's not just the plane tickets and the hotel bills and the hire car and the restaurants, but also the cost to the environment.
0825 Sports Update with Steve May.
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0830 We speak to Nancy Birdsall, the President of the Centre for Global Development who believes Mr Wolfowitz's resignation has been about more than his favoured treatment of his girlfriend.
0835 The ocean's ability to "mop up" excess carbon dioxide - and thus to help to mitigate the impact of climate change - may be grinding to a halt. We speak to oceanographer Dr Corinne Le Qere.
0840 Business Update with Greg Wood.
0842ÌýAs of the 1st of July smoking in public areas will be banned. No Smoking signs will go up around the country everywhere - including on church doors. We speak to the Very Reverend Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark.
0845 Violence in Gaza seems to be getting worse. Elements of the Hamas and Fatah Palestinian groups are fighting; Israel has launched missiles against targets in Gaza. We hear from Mona el-Farra a doctor working at a refugee camp who lives in central Gaza.Ìý
0850 In Wales The Western Mail has reported that a rainbow coalition involving Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats, and the Conservatives might be making a serious bid for power.
0855 As Gordon Brown faces the long wait to become Prime Minister, we compare protracted political handovers of the past with the historian Kenneth O Morgan and the film maker Michael Cockerell. |
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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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