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Choose an audio clip听you would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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0607 |
Our guest editor for today is Steve Savale, he asks; who chooses what news is, how it's presented, and what criteria do they apply? |
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0609 |
The Equal Opportunities Commission is calling for sex equality legislation to be modernised. |
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0615 |
The business news with Greg Wood. |
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0625 |
The听sport news with Steve May. |
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0632 |
The Palestinian authorities say they are doing what they can to secure the release of three British people kidnapped in the Gaza Strip yesterday. |
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0636 |
Charles Kennedy, the Liberal Democrat leader delivers his听New Year message today. |
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0640 |
A look at today's papers in the Philippines and in Britain. |
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0645 |
A pilot scheme that used听text messages to prompt people to pay their fines was so successful that it could be rolled out across England and Wales. |
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0649 |
Secret government papers released today shed new light on Britain's decision to stay in the Common Market in 1975. |
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0652 |
Liberal Democrat's Paul Burston looks at research which shows us that across the whole year around 60 people a week are dying alone. |
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Our guest editor for today is Steve Savale, he asks; who chooses what news is? |
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0709 |
Nigel Roberts Director of the World Bank looks at ways to rejuvenate the Palestinian economy in Gaza, after the kidnap of a British aid worker and her parents. |
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0714 |
Amongst the听government archives released today is the most secret document ever made public. |
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0717 |
A business update with Greg Wood. |
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0721 |
We find out who today's guest editor Steve Savale is with a profile of his life so far. |
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0730 |
Could Britain have been involved in the abduction and abuse of a group of Pakistani men in Greece after the July 7th bombings? Sir Menzies Campbell joins us. |
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0737 |
Today's Guest Editor Steve Savale is a self-confessed fan of Philip K Dick's work.听 He looks into听Hollywood's influence on the writers work. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser. |
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0752 |
Kenan Malik, Barbara Roche, and Sir Andrew Green join today's guest editor Steve Savale to discuss the issue of open borders for Britain. |
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0810 |
Manuel Hassassian and Alastair Crooke look in detail into the听major security operation underway in the Gaza strip trying to find a British aid worker and her parents after they were kidnapped yesterday. |
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0820 |
Today's guest editor Steve Savale decides to look into gun crime in Brazil , and is joined by Marcelo Yuka a Brazilian musician who survived an apparently random drive-by shooting five years ago.听 |
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0827 |
A sport update with Steve May. |
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0830 |
Guest editor Steve Savale asks;听is it possible to define terrorism?听 Elias Khoury, Colonel Tim Collins and Rosemary Hollis find out. |
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0842 |
A听business update with Greg Wood. |
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0847 |
Who runs Britain?听 We hear some listener comments. |
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0852 |
Irish Prime Minister Bertie Aherne joins us to look听at the future for Ireland. |
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0858 |
Steve Savale reflects on his guest edit, and plays us his revamped theme music for the Today Programme. |
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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, as听Nick 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 fails听John and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
Jim听introduces a very听strange sounding听
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
听- 23th听July 2004 |
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Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
听- 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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What is Charlotte Green giggling about?
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John and Jim share a joke about the weather? |
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We don鈥檛 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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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, in听Rome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
Part 1
Part 2 |
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First 大象传媒 interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaks听to our reporter Zubeida Malik about听his ordeal and how he听continues to听campaign 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.听First 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 to听 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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Hillary Clinton talks to听James听Naughtie
Her questions surrounding the听White House handling of the Iraq war, plus her years with Bill in that stately building. |
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Mark Coles interviews Damien Hirst
......about his new exhibition in the small Slovenian capital Ljubljana, including drawings from his teenage years. |
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James Naughtie interviews Hans Blix:
Hans Blix says allies had motivations other than WMDs for going to war - 6th June 2003. |
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