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Choose an audio clip听you would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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A House of Lords committee has criticised the government for raising the licence fee. |
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Britain, France and Germany are holding last minute talks with听Iran before Monday's meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog. |
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0615 |
Business with Rebecca Marston. |
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Sports news with Steve May. |
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Our reporter Jon Manel has conducted the听only interview with a detainee still at Guantanamo. |
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The Prime Minister has cleared Tessa Jowell; but is the controversy over? |
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0640 |
A review of听today's papers in London and Minsk. |
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Yeserday in Parliament with Robert Orchard. |
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John Everitt of the Wildlife Trust urges听badger enthusiasts to write to their MPs in order to prevent a mass cull. |
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Fisheries Minister Ben Bradshaw joins us from Paris, where an international conference aims to combat illegal fishing. |
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Gary Glitter has been jailed for three years in Vietnam after being found guilty of sexual abuse. Philippa Lei of听World Vision UK discusses the case. |
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Defence Ministers are meeting in Austria to discuss an EU fund for defence. Tim Franks reports. |
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Business with Rebecca Marston. |
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0721 |
Lord Fowler explains why the committee he chairs has judged the听licence fee to be too high. |
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0726 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0731 |
Controversy surrounds听the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina. Michael Brown, who resigned as head of FEMA after the disaster, gives us his first interview outside America. |
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Manfred Nowak, the UN's special rapporteur on torture, discusses听Guantanamo Bay. |
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0740 |
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is teaching parents to sing听nursery rhymes - Nicola Stanbridge reports. |
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Thought for the Day with the Right Rev Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford. |
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Is it in our interest to contribute to a combined fund for EU Defence? Lord Drayson joins us. |
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As Washington faces increasing pressure to close听Guantanamo Bay, our reporter Jon Manel has conducted the only interview with a man currently being held there. US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Colleen Graffy, joins us. |
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0826 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0831 |
The new leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Menzies Campbell, joins us ahead of the spring conference this weekend. |
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Business with Rebecca Marston. |
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Caroline Thompson, Director of Policy at the 大象传媒, discusses criticisms that the听licence fee is too expensive. |
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A panel of teenagers discuss whether "Kidulthood", a new film showing violence and drugs as an integral part of growing up on a Notting Hill estate, is an accurate portrayal of their experience. |
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Despite Tony Blair's support, the controversy surrounding听Tessa Jowell continues unabated. Former spin doctor Derek Draper joins us. |
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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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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.听A 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 that听the 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, in听Rome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
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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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