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Choose an audio clip听you would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are getting together this weekend to reflect on why Labour did so badly in the local elections. |
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The director of the CIA, Porter Goss, has resigned after less than two years in the job. Stansfield Turner, another former CIA director, explains his decision to go. |
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The Anglican Church may get its first lesbian bishop today. We speak to Reverend Susan Russell. |
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The sports news听with Steve May. |
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Were the听local election results the product of the Government's troubles or of "the Cameron effect"? |
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A look at the papers. |
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The South African government wants to speed up the process of land reform; their aim is that 30% of the land should be owned by the black population by 2014. Hear our report. |
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Thought For The Day with the Reverend Roy Jenkins. |
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American diplomats based here won't pay the听congestion charge because they say it is a tax and diplomats don't pay taxes in foreign countries. |
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John Prescott is still Deputy Prime Minister this morning, but his office no longer exists. Is he still an important member of the government or has he been emasculated politically? We speak to Geraldine Smith, a Labour MP, and Lord Heseltine, a former Conservative DPM. |
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Hear some of our listener's letters. |
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The sports update with Steve May. |
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Gordon Brown told us yesterday that he and Tony Blair are going to talk about the 'renewal' of the Labour party. What does he mean by 'renewal'? We speak to Hazel Blears, a Labour minister. |
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The director of the CIA, Porter Goss, has resigned. We speak to Philip Bobbitt, former White House coordinator of intelligence and a Professor of International Law at the University of Texas. |
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Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. But how is psychoanalysis viewed today? We speak to Frank Furedi, a Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent,听and David Bell, from the British Psychoanalytic Society. |
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How will Tony Blair's听cabinet reshuffle be seen? We speak to the political writers Julia Langdon and Anthony Howard. |
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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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