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A meeting between six big powers on Iran, ended with what seems to be a slightly mixed message - they agreed to听 discuss U.N. Security Council sanctions to punish Iran for failing to halt its nuclear programme, but stopped short of declaring European negotiations with Teheran a failure. |
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Eighty thousand eleven-year-olds each year go to听under-performing schools in England. |
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John Warner, one of the American Republican party's most influential senators has delivered a grim critique of what's happening in Iraq. |
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We speak to Des Hudson, chief executive of the Law Society and Robert Thompson, the editor of the Times about new rules designed to give journalists easier access to court documents. |
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Sports News with Steve May. |
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It is听the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Afghanistan - and the Prime Minister marked the occasion by talking to British troops there through the medium of an interview on the British Forces Broadcasting Service. |
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We speak to Brian Eno, who has created a听software that turns a TV set into an art gallery that can show millions of different paintings. |
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We profile Edward St Aubyn, author of 'Mother's Milk' who is a听Man Booker Prize nominee. |
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Thought for the Day with The Reverend Rob Marshall. |
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We speak to Peter Fincham, controller of 大象传媒1 about the channels new on-screen identity. |
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Senator John Warner, just back from Iraq, is painting a bleak picture for Americans and suggesting that there may be听a significant change of policy in the White House in the next few months. |
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We read some of the听letters we have received from you this week. |
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Who is Robert Byron? -听 We ask one of his most enthusiastic admirers, the travel writer William Dalrymple. |
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Sports Update with Steve May. |
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Jack Straw has caused a huge stir with his听comments about the veil. We speak to Nadia Ajibade, a young muslim woman who started wearing the veil when she was 19. |
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Veterans of the Mau Mau who fought a guerrilla war against the听British authorities in Kenya are claiming compensation from the British government. |
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The听world's longest running musical Les Miserables will surpass Cats tonight at the Queen's Theatre in London, and celebrate its 21st birthday. |
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It's known that听80,000 people perished in the earthquake that struck northern Pakistan and India a year ago tomorrow. But that may not be the final figure. |
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Henry Kissinger a figure who stirs some very distant memories. When he was Prichard Nixon's national security adviser it was he who had to deal with the consequences of the Vietnam war, including America's eventual admission of virtual defeat. |
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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.
(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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