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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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Rt Rev Tom Butler, the Bishop of Southwark,听on allegations that he injured himself听after getting drunk at the Irish embassy. |
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EU fisheries ministers meet in Brussels today to set new quotas on fishing in EU waters. |
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The听business news with Greg Wood. |
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The government is now providing "safe rooms" to the victims of domestic violence. |
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The sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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If a tree falls over in a gale and crushes a child is it a matter for Health and Safety? |
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The paper review. |
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The police in Berkshire say they are struggling to cope with the number of听Polish people who are being robbed and conned. |
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Thought for the Day with The Right Reverend Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark. |
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Has crime reporting changed? |
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The respected foreign affairs think-tank, Chatham House, has said that the invasion of Iraq was a terrible mistake. We speak to foreign secretary Margaret Beckett, and the director of Chatham House, Professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas. |
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The听sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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Police in Suffolk have arrested a second suspect听in connection with听the murder of 5 women. |
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Fewer than half the children听in this country know that听Christmas is about the birth of Christ. |
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The听business update with Greg Wood. |
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Could a follower of the听Mormon faith be a next US president? |
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The 2006 Today Programme vote is 'The Christmas Repeal'. We want you to tell us which laws should be scrapped. Walter Wolfgang, the veteran peace campaigner, and听Geraldine Finucane give us their suggestions. |
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Today, MPs sit for the last time this year. Three MPs give us their high and low points from the last year. |
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More听on the Suffolk murders. |
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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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