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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business.
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There has been growing international criticism ofÌýIran over its announcement that it has successfully enriched uranium. Russia, France and Britain have urged it to halt enrichment and China has called on it to be more cooperative with the UN's nuclear agency, the IAEA. Reza Pahlavi is the son of the deposed former Shah of Iran and represents a group called Alliance for Democracy in Iran. |
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Ann Marie Rogers has won her appeal to get her local NHS trust to pay for the drug Herceptin to treat her early-stage breast cancer. But what implications are there for other cancer sufferers who have hope provided by similar drugs, but have no guarantee that they will be treated with them? A few weeks ago we spoke toÌýTamar Bailey - she is 26 and has bowel cancer - and she is trying to get the drug Avastin. We speak to her again this morning. |
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TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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We have now heard exactly what went on in the hijacked airliner which crashed in Pennsylvania on september 11th. We spoke to Patrick White who's cousin died on the flight, and asked him how difficult it has been to be asked to relive that day. |
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TheÌýsports newsÌýwith Steve May. |
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Most of the provisions of the newÌýTerrorism Act come into force today making it a criminal offence, among other things, to encourage and glorify terrorism, to disseminate terrorist publications and to prepare or plan to commit a terrorist act. Will such moves make us safer? John Falding's girlfriend Anat Rosenburg was one of theÌýpassengers who was killed on the No 30 bus in Tavistock SquareÌýwhen it blewÌýup on the 7th July. Diana Gorodi's sister was also killed. |
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A 12 year old girl from South Wales has had herÌýdonor heart removed and her own heart reconnected, ten years after her original transplant. The surgeon, Professor Sir Magdi Yakoub carried out the original operation, and joins us on the programme |
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After 43 years on the run the Mafia's top bossÌýBernardo Provenzano has been put in an isolation cell in a jail in the central Italian region of Umbria. He was caught by an elite police team at an isolated hut close to his Sicilian birthplace of Corleone, near Palermo. |
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Thought for the day with Dom Antony Such. |
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When the curtain comes down at the Old Vic on Saturday night there are no plans for it to go up again until September. That's five months away. It has made the critics question what is going on there. The theatre's artistic directorÌýKevin SpaceyÌýjoins the programme. |
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The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamad El Baradei, says he is planning to persuade Iran to suspend its Uranium enrichment programme. He is to report back to the UN Security Council at the end of this month on whether Tehran is complying with its demand to stop all enrichment activity by the 28th of April. We speak to the former British Ambassador to the UN, Sir Jeremy Greenstock. |
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After 43 years on the run the man said to be the Mafia's top boss, Bernardo Provenzano, has been caught. He was found at an isolated hut near his Sicilian birthplace of Corleone, not far from Palermo. |
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TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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A High Court Judge ruled at the end of last week that the Da Vinci Code, the bestselling thriller by Dan Brown had not stolen core ideas from an earlier non-fiction work. Michael Baigent, one of the authors of the non-fiction work, 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail', who originally accused Dan Brown of copyright infringement, joins us this morning. |
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It is six years since the millenium survey ofÌýBritain's Butterflies found many native species had been pushed to the brink. So what's the situation now? |
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TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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A major part of the government's legislation to deal with terror suspects, the control orders measure, has been described as incompatible with human rights laws by a High Court Judge. Professor Anthony Glees is director of Brunel University Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies, and Sir Nicholas Lyell was Attorney General from 1992 to 1997. |
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As the tension rises in the row over Iran's nuclear programme there is growing concern in Germany that it could lead to demonstrations when theÌýIranian football team play in this summer's world cup. Politicians and Jewish groups have voiced anger over reports that President Ahmadinejad could go to Germany to watch a match. |
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To what extent are political leaders driven by their religious beliefs?? On Monday's programme Frank Gaffney, who worked for the Reagan administration, warned that the Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's nuclear ambitions are a result of his religious beliefs. Elahe Mohtasham is an Iranian born British academic. |
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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)
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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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