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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.听
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Sir Ian Blair has ordered an inquiry into a Muslim police officer being excused duty outside the Israeli Embassy. |
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The UN high commission for refugees says up to 90,000听Afghans have been displaced by the fighting. |
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A new head of听Ofcom has been chosen. |
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The听business news with Greg Wood. |
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Russian President听Vladimir Putin has warned Georgia against provoking Moscow. |
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The听sports news with Steve May. |
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We report from one of the areas worst hit by the earthquake听 in Pakistan last year. |
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The paper review. |
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We profile another novel nominated for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 'The Inheritance of Loss' by Kiran Desai. |
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Thought For The Day with Oliver McTernan, the Director of the NGO Forward Thinking. |
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Many听cancer patients face unfair dismissal and discrimination at work according to a 大象传媒 investigation. |
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Met Police Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei and Lord Brian Mackenzie, former president of the Superintendents' Association,听discuss why a Muslim officer has been excused duty at the Israeli Embassy. |
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An exhibition opens today at the V&A called 'At Home in Renaissance Italy.' |
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The听sports news with Steve May. |
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The听 business news with Greg Wood who is in Brazil where he speaks to their trade minister Luis Fernando Furlan. |
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Hear how the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Hospital, who own the rights to Peter Pan, will mark the work's centenary. |
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Sir David King, the government's chief scientific adviser, on the climate change conference听. |
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Where are the听polymaths of today? |
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The Prince of Wales reads us 'All These I Learnt' by the travel writer Robert Byron to mark National Poetry Day. |
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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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