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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business.
0600-0630
0630-0700
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The Commons intelligence and security committee will report on theÌýLondon bombings in April; our Security Correspondent Frank Gardner has an exclusive preview. |
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0714 |
A new report calls forÌýmeans testing to assess whether the elderly can afford social care to be scrapped. Lawyer Nicola Mackintosh joins us. |
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0719 |
TonyÌýBlair is in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, discussing closer cooperation in fighting terrorism. |
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0721 |
Business with Rebecca Marston. |
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0723 |
Some American soldiers who refuse to fight in what they view as an illegal war in Iraq, are applying for asylum in Canada. We hear from Josh Key, aÌýdeserter who served a term in Iraq. |
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0727 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0730 |
Amid increasing calls for Mr Blair to step down, the Fabian Society suggests how his likely successor, Gordon Brown, should proceed. We're joined byÌýDavid Miliband, Minister for Local Government and Communities. |
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0740 |
To mark its 70th anniversary, Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf is being staged at the Hackney Empire - with a new 50 minute prequel. Prokofiev's grandson GabrielÌýwent to seeÌýthe new production with our reporter Nicola Stanbridge. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day withÌýDr Mona Siddiqui, Head of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow. |
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0750 |
The Prime Minister has called for a new international treaty on climate change. We speak to the editor of the Ecologist and deputy chair of the Tory policy review on the Environment, Zac Goldsmith. |
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0810 |
Sir Derek Wanless discusses his report for the King's Fund,Ìýa health research charity, on the provision of social care for the elderly. |
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0820 |
IsÌýgrammar irrelevant? Michael McCarthy, a co-author of the new Cambridge Grammar of English, defends clarity over accuracy of communication. |
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0827 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0830 |
Lib Dem spokesman Steve Webb andÌýthe Social CareÌýMinister Liam Byrne reflect on theÌýWanless report on care of the elderly. |
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0837 |
Business with Rebecca Marston. |
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0840 |
Mike Thomson speaks to Henry Allingham, who at 109 is both Britain's oldest man and longest surviving servicemen from WWI. |
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0844 |
Yossi Beilin, a senior figure on theÌýIsraeliÌýleft, discussesÌý attempts to form aÌýcoalition. |
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0849 |
Piers Mitchell, an expert on crucifixion, challenges all previous attempts to explain just what killed Jesus Christ on the cross. |
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Michael Clarke, Professor of Defence Studies at King's College London, evaluates the role of theÌýintelligence services in the run up to 7/7. |
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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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