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Choose an audio clipÌýyou would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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0607 |
Militants in nigeria have released six hostages but have held on to two americans and a briton. |
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0609 |
Gary Glitter is going on trial in Vietnam today accused of molesting young girls.Ìý |
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0615 |
Business News from Greg Wood. |
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0626 |
Sporting news from Gary Richardson.Ìý |
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0631 |
Its being called Jowellgate, but what is the anticipated verdict of the cabinet secretary?Ìý |
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0634 |
We knowÌýcouncil tax bills will be going up, but by how much?Ìý |
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President Bush has arrived in Delhi, but the next stop on his tour is Pakistan where there have beenÌýexplosions at the US consulate overnight.Ìý |
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This morning'sÌýnewspaper review comes from the UK and Moscow. |
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Three people have been arrested and charged in connection with last week's multi-million pound robbery. |
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Yesterday in Parliament David Taylor claimed that the politics surrounding the education bill could have been scripted by Lewis Carroll!Ìý |
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Plans to spendÌýhalf a million pounds on a canopy to shelter our elected representatives as they walk between their offices at Westminister has raised an eyebrow or two.Ìý |
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TheÌýLiberal Democrat's will hear who's to be their new leader today, John Curtice, professor of Politics at Strathclyde helps us to make an educated prediction.Ìý |
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0715 |
Kidnapping is an occupational hazard if you work for an oil company in the Niger Delta, but ´óÏó´«Ã½ correspondent Alex Last was there whenÌýNigerian militants handed overÌýan American hostage to journalists.Ìý |
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0725 |
Jamie Oliver's school dinner's series had an unprecedented effect upon governmental attitudes toward theÌýfood available to children at school and it's Dame Suzie Leather's job to make sure things improve. |
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0721 |
Greg Wood has the latest business news. |
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0729 |
Sports news from Gary Richardson. |
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Council taxes are going up by an average of 4.5%, not as much as it could have been but, to pensioner Sheila Curzon it won't make life easy. Local government minister Phil Woolas defends the decision. |
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A review of today's newspapers. |
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0740 |
How much does it cost to own a dog? According to aÌýrecent survey its £22,000! Nick Buckley from the Kennel Club helps us weigh up the pro's and cons. |
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Today'sÌýThought For The Day comes from the Reverend Dr. Giles Fraser, Vicar of Putney. |
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Paul Gadd, better known asÌýGary Glitter goes on trial in Vietnam today for abusing underage girls. He was picked up in the resort of Vung Tau which has a rather sordid and even dangerous reputation.Ìý |
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An interview withÌýMr Berlusconi's lawyer Niccolo Ghedini on the day that Tessa Jowell discovers whether or not she still has a political career.Ìý |
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0810 |
TheÌýLiberal Democrat's will announce their new leader later this afternoon.ÌýPaddy Ashdown has been there and done that. |
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0815 |
Happily ever after? We speak to Adele Parks and William Boyd about the nation's favourite way to end a book.Ìý |
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0824 |
Sports news from Gary Richardson. |
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0820 |
Archbishop Desmond Tutu explains what he hoped to achieve by making a mini-series that brought together the victims and perpetrators of Northern Irish conflict.Ìý |
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0832 |
Business news from Greg Wood. |
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0835 |
General Eival Giladi is the man who oversaw Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, and he was one of Ariel Sharon's most senior advisers. |
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0850 |
Liberal DemocratsÌý Paul Holmes, Caroline Bennett and David Walter respond to John's suggestion that it doesn't really matter who becomes their leader.Ìý |
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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, asÌýNick 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 failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004 |
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Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 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’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)
Part 1
Part 2 |
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First ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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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