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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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We speak to Geoffrey Robinson MP about the听complexity of Gordon Brown's position at the party conference this year. |
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We speak to Vincent Lusser, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, about the transfer of fourteen men from a secret CIA prison to Guantanamo Bay. |
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Business News with Greg Wood. |
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Police have recovered the bodies of听three young men who drowned in Ullswater in the Lake District on Saturday. |
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For Labour it's important to keep money coming in from trade unionists, but some want this to change . We speak to Peter Facey, director of the campaign group Unlock Democracy. |
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Sports News with Steve May. |
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Gordon Brown expects that his speech this morning will be his last to a Labour conference as chancellor, and an overture to his first as Prime Minister. He has to manage a tricky balance. |
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A new film featuring Borat - the foul-mouthed tv reporter created by Ali G's alter-ego Sacha Baron Cohen has received听rave reviews in America yet the government of Kazakhstan are unimpressed. |
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Thought for the Day with Reverend Angela Tilby. |
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We speak to Dr Shaun Russell about the report being published today which听explores how Michael Stone was free to attack Dr Russell's wife and daughters while they were out walking in Kent. |
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We speak to Gordon Brown about what we can expect should he become Prime Minister. |
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0820 |
Sports Update with Steve May. |
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We speak to the author Martin Amis about his听new book out this week - 'The House of Meetings'. |
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Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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A conference is being held today based on the听famous Springboks tour of this country that led to the boycott of South Africa during the apartheid years. |
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As part of the Uncovering Iran season on Radio 4, we look at at听the relationship between Iran and the US since 9/11 and the clandestine contacts between the two countries. |
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Yesterday, two rottweilers killed a baby girl in Leicester.听Are there some dogs that shouldn't be kept as family pets? |
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We Speak to Kevin Maguire, political editor of the Mirror; and one of Brown's biographers, Tom Bower about the speech Gordon Brown is to give this morning. |
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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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