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Choose an audio clip听you would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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What is Britishness? It is a question the Chancellor Gordon Brown has decided to try to answer at a Fabian conference today. |
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A second case of听a听sex offender working as a teacher has emerged. |
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An airstrike by US forces on a village in Pakistan may have targeted al-Qaeda's deputy leader. |
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The new听Tory leader David Cameron had made much of the policy commissions he's set up on issues like social justice and global poverty. But how interested is he in new ideas and radical policies? |
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The sports news with Gary Richardson. |
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All four of the declared Liberal Democrat leadership candidates will be on the hustings at a party meeting in central London today. Lord Razzall, chairman of the Liberal Democrats campaigns committee, speaks about the leadership race. |
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A听review of the UK papers with Annie McKie. |
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Readers of the Daily Telegraph letters page have been getting excited in recent days over that perennial question: when is it appropriate to call a person by his or her first name? How familiar should we be? Charles Mosley, editor in chief of Debrett's, joins the programme.
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Thought for the day with Reverend Rob Marshall, an anglican priest. |
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A second case of a sex offender working in a school has emerged. The Education Secretary, Ruth kelly, has begun an inquiry to establish how many cases there are. Labour peer and former president of the police superintendents' association, Lord Mackenzie, and David Willetts, the Conservative education spokesman, talk to the programme. |
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The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, is making a big speech later today, and he'll say we need a "clear view of听what being British means and how you define national identity for the modern world". Michael Wills is the Labour MP for North Swindon in Wiltshire and advised the Chancellor on this issue. |
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We ask Italian chef, Antonio Carluccio, if Delia Smith really was responsible for introducing Spaghetti to Britain in the late 1970's. |
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The sports news with Gary Richardson. |
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Former prime minister听Sir John Major talks about the recent election of the Conservative leader, David Cameron, and its effect on the political landscape. |
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The Local Government Association says the image of those who play an active part in local affairs has been tarnished by centuries of caricature. Andrew Martin, author of 'The Blackpool High Flyer' talks about perceptions of local councillors. |
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They say you can tell a great deal about someone by the car they drive. So we've put together a list of the cars owned by the four Liberal Democrat leadership contenders to see if that helps us. Psychologist,听Dr Peter Collet, and Andrew Pierce of The Times, discuss this theory. |
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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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