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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business. |
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0630-0700 |
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Labour's Treasurer Jack Dromey says he, and other elected officials, were not told the party secretly borrowed millions of pounds last year. He's announced an internal investigation into how that happened. |
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What went on in the hours before last night's education votes? The Prime Minister won the vote in principle for his bill only with the help of the opposition, but did get a majority for the bill's parliamentary timetable despite a Conservative attempt to defeat it. |
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0718 |
The听business news with Greg Wood. |
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Tens of thousands of students are expected to take to the streets of听France today to demonstrate against the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. They're objecting to a new job contract he's trying to introduce for those under 26 which will make it easier for employers to sack them. |
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Two years after agreeing to reform the much-criticised system of travel expenses, members of the European Parliament seems to be reluctant to give up the perk, which allows them to claim first-class travel even if they don't use it. Hans Peter Martin, an Austrian MEP, has seen the internal report revealing what has happened. |
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0726 |
The听sports news with Steve May.
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0730 |
The Government's refusal to accept the Parliamentary Ombudsman's criticism of its pension advice is causing a good deal of disquiet. We are joined by the pensions expert, Alan Pickering, and Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat's treasury spokesman. |
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We hear the latest on the听clinical drugs trial that left two men critically ill and four others in a serious condition. |
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Today the 大象传媒 wildlife magazine is publishing the latest report from the British Big Cats Society on the number of recorded听big cat sightings over the fourteen months to last summer. The number is 2123. Mark Robson is a wildlife and environmental crime officer for Gloucestershire constabulary. |
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0745 |
Thought for the day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser, the vicar of Putney. |
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Nearly twelve million people are on the brink of starvation in the Horn of Africa. The situation is getting worse every day. That's the warning from aid agencies, and they say that despite their requests for food and cash,听 people are not responding. David Bull is the executive director of UNICEF. |
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We speak to the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, about Tony Blair's troubles with the education bill, and loans to the Labour party. |
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0820 |
It is thirty years since听Harold Wilson resigned and the 大象传媒 is marking the occasion with a drama documentary. It's based on secret tapes made of meetings that Wilson had with the then 大象传媒 journalists Barrie Penrose and Roger Courtiour in the months after he left. Barrie Penrose joins us along with Joe Haines, who was Harold Wilson's press secretary. |
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0826 |
The听sports news with Steve May. |
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0830 |
We speak to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, about his call for the Prime Minister to abandon his hopes for a new generation of nuclear power stations |
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0837 |
A听business update听with Greg Wood. |
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0840 |
Do we misuse the word tragedy? We speak to the classics scholar Dr Peter Jones, and听a former 大象传媒 political editor, Robin Oakley. |
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It is one hundred days since听David Cameron became leader of the Tory party, promising to introduce a modern compassionate conservatism. We are joined by the editor of the Spectator, Matthew D'Ancona, and by our former chief political correspondent , John Sergeant. |
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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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