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Choose an audio clip听you would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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One of the men kidnapped in Iraq earlier this year with the British peace activist Norman Kember has been murdered. The former head of the UN human rights chief in Iraq, John Pace, talks to the programme. |
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It has been听a year since the publication of Tony Blair's Africa Commission Report. What has it achieved? |
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A look at the events of听yesterday in parliament with Mark Darcy |
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The听sports news with Steve May. |
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NASA's latest Mars probe has now arrived at the Red Planet.听The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is the latest of a series of unmanned probes that NASA has sent out into space. But it is the sort of programme that the American space agency is cutting back on. We talk to Dr Andrew Coates from University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory. |
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A new statue of Churchill has been unveiled in Norwich and shows him in a straitjacket.听 According to the charity Rethink, who commissioned it, the statue draws attention to the stigma surrounding mental health. It was unveiled by the local Labour MP Dr Ian Gibson who joins the programme, along with Allen Packwood, director of the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge. |
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Thought For The Day with Canon David Winter. |
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Abortion is a massive political issue in the United States - one of those issues that can decide elections. It's never been like that here. But there is growing concern over our own abortion laws. Public opinion seems to have moved behind changing the laws to make it more difficult. Peter Smith, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, talks to the programme about abortion and morality. |
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Bob Geldof talks about Tony Blair's Africa Commission, which produced it's report a year ago, on what should be done to tackle the continent's problems.
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0820 |
A look at some of听your letters and emails from the week. |
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Sports news with Steve May. |
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One of the men kidnapped in Iraq with the British hostage Norman Kember has been murdered. The men were seized last November and video footage has been shown of him from time to time. The Foreign Office minister, Kim Howells, is in Iraq and talks to the programme. |
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This year is the centenary of Samuel Beckett's birth. Events are taking place all over the world, and Beckett's work will be shown in Dublin, London, France, Japan and a lot of american cities. James Knowlson was a friend of Beckett's for many years and has now written two biographies, and the author, Paul Auster, met his idol Beckett as a young man in Paris, and has contributed to Knowlson's latest biography. |
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Tony Blair is in favour of new听nuclear power stations - or so it is believed. So he won't have been too pleased this week when the sustainable development commission came out against it. The Sustainable Development Commission says that nuclear power is unsafe, and unproven way of reducing carbon emissions. We speak to its chairman, Jonathan Porritt. |
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What is the least socially acceptable dog? It's a question that Country Life has considered in its own version of Crufts. And its award goes to the Bichon Frise. What is wrong with it? Rupert Ultoh is features editor of Country Life, Brenda Dickinson is secretary of the Northern and Midland Bichon Frise Club. |
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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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