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Choose an audio clip听you would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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The听Home Office seems to be uncertain as to how many foreign nationals have left secure hospitals without being traced. |
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The military junta in Burma has extended Aung San Suu Kyi's period of house arrest. We speak to Glenys Kinnock, an MEP, who has been campaigning for Ms Suu Kyi's release.听听 |
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Hear extracts from听the interview听Cherie Blair听gave to the 大象传媒 World Service. |
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We talk to听Professor John Stein from Oxford University about the efforts to extend the exclusion zone, around the University, inside which demonstrations can take place. |
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An听earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has struck the island of Java in Indonesia, an area devastated by the tsunami in 2004.听听 |
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The听sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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After two days of talks,听University lecturers have failed to reach an agreement with their employers about pay. |
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0740 |
A look at the papers. |
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We speak to David Rothenberg about why听insects make good musicians. |
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Thought For The Day with, Brian Draper, lecturer at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. |
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The Home Office has been criticised for allowing a number of people to leave secure hospitals without being traced. Is the department in crisis? We speak to the former Home Office minister, Barbara Roche. |
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Should Britain regard itself as a multi-faith society? We speak to the Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, who says it should not. Instead, he thinks that Britain is a Christian country that welcomes other faiths. |
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Performers are taking their instruments up to a series of rocky crags on the Yorkshire Dales today, to entertain hill walkers as part of the Swaledale Festival. Hear our report. |
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Hear a selection of our听listener's letters and emails. |
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0830 |
The听sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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The Defence Secretary says he听is troubled by the amount of sexual harassment in the forces. We speak to Catherine Brumfitt, a former RAF police officer who was sexually harassed and听won compensation, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup . |
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0840 |
Hear the latest news on the听Indonesian earthquake which may have killed more than 1300 people. |
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0845 |
Hear our interview with the eminent composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle, who criticised听pop music at the Ivor Novello awards this week. |
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The rulings on two big money听divorce cases have laid down new guidelines for multi-million pound settlements. We talk to Natasha Walter, a journalist and author, and Viv Groskop, a columnist for The Observer. |
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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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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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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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