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More than three dozen Labour members in the foreign secretary's constituency have defected to the Liberal Democrats in protest at Tony Blair's foreign policy. |
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Europe will be providing just under 7000 of the 15,000 UN peacekeepers going to Lebanon. |
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A look at today's papers |
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The deadline set by the abductorsof two American TV journalists in Gaza for the release of Muslim prisoners by the United States expires at noon today. |
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The scale of bombing of German cities during the Second World War is still controversial. On Sunday a new memorial to Bomber Command will be unveiled in front of about a thousand people at Lincoln Cathedral.听 Bob Walker reports |
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The Sports news with Garry Richardson |
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We sent our reporter Judy Hobson to Birkenhead, Frank Field's constituency, to find out a bit more about the effects of immigration on the community there and we talk to Frank Field. |
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Our reporter Trudi Barber went to the wine merchants Berry Brothers and Rudd in Basingstoke to find out why a 2005 Bordeaux from Chateau Margaux in France is creating such a stir |
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Thought for the day with the Reverend Dr Giles Fraser |
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We speak to prominent Republican Congressman Christopher Shays, who is calling on President Bush to set a timetable for withdrawal from iraq. |
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"Worse than bodyline" - that's how the former test umpire Dickie Bird has described the latest development in the row engulfing cricket.听 We get the views from Australia and Islamabad and talk to David Frith, the former editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly. |
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Your letters |
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Who won The Battle of Britain? Perhaps it was, effectively, the Royal Navy, as a trio of military historians suggested. We talk to Sir Alan West, former First Sea Lord. |
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The Sports news with Garry Richardson |
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European Union foreign ministers settled on a plan to beef up the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon when they met yesterday. Europe Minister Geoff Hoon was there. |
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Special Immigration Judges ruled this week that an Algerian man who the government considers a threat to national security can be sent back to Algeria. |
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Mike Thomson has the latest in our series on historic places:
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Poor old Pluto is demoted to a dwarf planet, and similarly another body, Zena which is larger than Pluto and was discovered by Professor Mike Brown an astronomer from the California Institute of Technology. We talk to Professor Brown |
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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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