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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600 - 0630
0630 - 0700 |
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The worst flooding in over 100 years has caused a state of emergency to be called in parts of Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. |
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A recent Rowntree survey has released a detailed survey of the extent of support for the British National Party. Professor Peter John was one of it's authors.Ìý |
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0721 |
Business News from Rebecca Marston. |
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0730 |
The author Rhidian Brook has been living, with his family, in communities affected by HiV and AIDS, here he reads his second Easter essay. |
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0735 |
This programme has leaned that over the past 5 years, eleven parents have felt it necessary to lodge complaints against the controversial paediatrician Sir Roy Meadows. |
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0740 |
Sporting news from Garry Richardson.Ìý |
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0745 |
The NUT conference is debating a motionÌýcondemning City Academies today. Education Minister Bill Rammell joins us. |
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0748 |
A controversialÌýexhibition of human cadavers has come to Earl's Court in London.Ìý The corpsesÌýcome from China, and there have been concerns about their origins.ÌýLing Dee chairs the European Friends of Falun Gong. |
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Thought For The Day comes from religious commentator Clifford Longley.Ìý |
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The determination ofÌýthe Iraqi people to exercise their democratic rights was widely heralded as a sign of hope for the country's future - people turned out to vote in huge numbers despite the danger, but the elected politicians seem incapable of forming a government. Hoshyar Zebari is Iraq's foreign minister.Ìý |
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0810 |
TheÌýBritish National Party may have never attained evenÌý1% in a general election, yet a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has revealed that a surprising number of people would considerÌývoting for them.ÌýDr Phil Edwards is spokesman for the BNP and Andy Burnham is Home Office Minister. |
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0825 |
DJ Taylor and Alison Weir are here to discuss their favourite obscure books.Ìý |
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0827 |
Sporting news from Garry Richardson. |
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0833 |
Steven Simon, a former member of Bill Clinton's National Security Council has written a piece for theÌýNew York Times warning against the danger of military action against Iran, he tells us how he believes Iran would react.Ìý |
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0841 |
Radio 3 are beginning a day long broadcast of Wagner's entire Ring Cycle, the four Operas that combined, last 14 hours. Controller of Radio 3 Steven Wright and Michael Portillo. |
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0844 |
Business update from Rebecca Marston. |
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0847 |
Norman Lamb MP and advisor to Menzies Campbell explains why he is not surprised thatÌýcommunitiesÌýwho feel let down would turn to the BNP and Iain Duncan Smith is leading David Cameron's policy review on Social Justice. |
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With only a couple of weeks to go before local elections, one would imagine that David Cameron would be found door-stepping marginal areas, but instead he's off to Norway to go dog-sledding. Green MEP Caroline Lucas and commentator Bruce Anderson discuss Cameron's environmental policies. |
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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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