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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.听
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We speak to Bob Reitmeier, CEO of the Children's Society; and Professor Lord Winston, distinguished fertility expert, about the first independent national inquiry into childhood. |
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Sweden's new Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, has promised to reform Sweden's costly welfare system. |
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Business News with Rebecca Marston. |
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0723 |
Iran and Venezuela have further听strengthened their ties with the signing of a series of agreements on economic cooperation. |
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The Liberal Democrats are debating听policies on diversity today at their party conference听in Brighton. |
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0728 |
Sports News with Steve May. |
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0730 |
The Home Secretary John Reid, wants to find ways to听close loop-holes which allow prisoners to walk free. |
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0745 |
Auditions are being held today to try and find 20 Hobbits for the multi-million pound stage adaptation of JRR Tolkein's Lord of the Rings. |
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0750 |
Thought for the Day with The Reverend Angela Tilby. |
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Sir Menzies Campbell wants the Liberal Democrats to lose their image as a party that is soft on crime. |
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0810 |
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Children's Society are setting up what they say is the first independent national inquiry into childhood. |
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Hotel Gleneagles in Torquay - the hotel that inspired Fawlty Towers - is re-opening today after a massive refurbishment. |
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0825 |
Sports Update with Steve May. |
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The Liberal Democrats are trying to outflank the Conservatives on the issues of tax and the environment. |
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0835 |
We speak to Romeo Dallaire, who commanded the UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda in 1994, and ask him what would happen if the听African Union peacekeepers pulled out of Darfur? |
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0840 |
Wine-makers are up in arms over听plans for a motorway which they say will ruin the country's most profitable vineyards in the Margaux region in the Medoc. |
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0845 |
Business Update with Rebecca Marston. |
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0847 |
The NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, has said tough decisions will have to be made if there's going to be better patient care. The BMA respond. |
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We speak to Greg Hurst, political correspondent for the Times and Lord Tim Razzall who was听听Charles Kennedy's strategist and chief adviser. |
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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.
(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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