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Today's Briefing Hour:Catch up on the days news, sport and business |
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Listen to 0630 - 0700 |
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Tessa Jowellcomes to the Commons today for her regular听 departmental questions: from her point of view, a听 wretched piece of timing. Because she is a secretary of state in deep trouble. Estelle Morris, former education secretary and arts minister, who has been through a ministerial resignation herself....and is close to Tessa Jowell talks to Today. |
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The House of Lords will be considering the ID cards bill again today - Today talks to Lord Strachclyde, the Tory leader in the upper house and Andy Burnham who is the Home Office minister with responsibility for ID cards.
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Business Newswith Greg Wood |
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Does Britain need a nuclear programme or alternatives, like wind power, which are not necessarily any more popular?听 Polly Billington reports. |
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The Sports newswith Garry Richardson |
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Mike Thomson brings us the first of a series of special reports on Burma, or Myanmar, which is ruled by one of the most repressive and isolated regimes in the world. Today's report is looking at the long-running wars still being waged against the Rangoon government by a number of ethnic insurgent groups. |
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The goldfinch is enjoying an unprecedented revivalthanks to garden birdwatchers and the the benefits of providing food in gardens. |
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Thought for the Daywith the priest of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Rosemary Lain-Priestley.
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Tessa Jowellappears in the Commons today at question time.听 She is caught in a maelstrom of criticism, rumour and revelation about her husband's financial affairs, touching on her own duties as a Cabinet minister, and simultaneously she's announced their separation after 27 years of marriage. The rough unavoidable questions are obvious : can she survive? Glenda Jackson is Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate gives her her view and Today talks to Margaret Beckett, secretary of state for the environment. |
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The Oscars.听Who Won? |
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Vinton Cerf is the man who's thinking the unthinkable - where does the internet go next? |
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Today is the first day of public hearings in the case of baby MB, a seventeen month old boy with Spinal Muscular Atrophy. A hospital trust is seeking permission to withdraw life saving treatment from him - he's severely paralysed and cannot breathe unaided. But his parents say he responds to them and they want him kept alive. The case is being held public after a request from the 大象传媒. We are joined by Anita Macaulay, from the Jennfier Trust for Spinal Muscular Atrophy, whose daughter died from the disease听Professor Malcolm Levene, professor of paediatrics at Leeds General Infirmary.
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The Business Newswith Greg Wood |
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If Britain's energy policy, or least part of it, was decided in Brussels would it lead to lower prices for consumers?Tony Blair believes so.听 Mark Mardell our Europe Editor has seen the European Commission's detailed Green Paper on energy in advance. |
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Tom Hall of Lonely Planet and by George Monbiot who writes on the environment for the Guardian talk about making holiday makers aware of the environmental cost of air travel. |
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George Jones, political editor of the Daily Telegraph and Barbara Follett MP discuss Tessa Jowells appears in the Commons today at question time. |
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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)
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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