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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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The Government thinks that听parenting classes can help in the fight against anti-social behaviour. We speak to the Government's Respect co-ordinator Louise Casey . |
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A French judge has said that the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, should be tried for the killing of a former leader of the country. |
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Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain is being investigated over potential charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. |
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The听business news with Greg Wood |
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Journalist and writer Ross Clarke has produced a list of what he thinks are the worst examples of red tape. |
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The听sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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The Commons defence select committee is looking at听Trident, the independent nuclear deterrent. |
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On the eve of the first Ashes test in Brisbane, we look back at the history of the contest. |
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Thought for the day with The Right Reverend Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark. |
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Should US soldiers involved in friendly fire incidents be made to attend听inquests to face questioning about their actions? |
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The worlds biggest experiment in fusion energy听is听inaugurated today. We discuss the implications with plasma physicist Steven Cowley and Roger Higman from Friends of the Earth |
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We speak to authors Ian Rankin and Louise Doughty about the new novel by Thomas Pynchon. |
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The听听sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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According to a new report, adopted children want to be told more about their birth family and the reasons why they were given up for adoption. |
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Russell Crowe talks about his predictions for the Ashes cricket tests. |
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Iraq and Syria have announced that听they are restoring full diplomatic relations. |
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Icelandic businessman Eggert Magnusson has bought West Ham. |
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Bill Drummond of the eighties band KLF has declared today no music day. |
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The incidence of听alcoholism is leading many people working in the field to call it an epidemic. |
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We speak to Sienie Engelbrecht, the woman whose son was the first persistent vegetative state patient to respond to the "miracle" sleeping pill.听 |
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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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