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More than听200 hunts are expected to meet around the country today, despite it having been made illegal to hunt with hounds nearly two years ago. |
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Guests at the Findhorn Community use this festive week to seek spiritual renewal. Our Guest Editor Yoko Ono asked our Scotland correspondent Colin Blane to report from Findhorn's Christmas gathering. You can listen to the full interview here. |
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Yoko Ono asked us to听ask actress Susannah York about Mordechai Vanunu, the former nuclear technician who revealed details of听Israel's nuclear programme to the British press in 1986. He was then tried in secret and convicted of treason. Although released from prison 3 years ago, he is not allowed to leave Israel. |
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For nearly 30 years, a group of researchers at Princeton University have been investigating claims that people can affect electronic and mechanical devices with their minds. The project is set to close this Spring. Yoko Ono asked James Gordon report. |
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The Centre for Constitutional Rights is a Washington DC based organisation which works to ensure that America doesn't lose sight of the rule of law as it fights its war on terror.听Yoko ono听wanted us to look at the centre which was听awarded one of two听Lennon - Ono Peace prizes this year. |
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Sports News with Steve May. |
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We discuss the听Dangerous Dogs Act, one of our short-listed Christmas Repeal laws. |
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Yoko Ono, known for her art and peace campaigning, has been working on a project on an island just off Iceland. Polly Billington reports. You can listen to the full interview here. |
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Thought for the Day with The Right Reverend Tom Butler - Bishop of Southwark. |
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In the 1960s and 70s today's Guest Editor Yoko Ono and John Lennon were two of the highest profile and most active political campaigners in the world. We ask Angela Davies and Tariq Ali, both activists, if the world is a scarier place now than when they first started protesting. You can listen to the full interview here. |
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Yoko Ono wanted to find out how America is perceived around the world. We ask Scott Wilson, the Washington Post's Jerusalem bureau chief,听Jason Dean,听from the Wall Street Journal's Shanghai bureau and Hector Tobar, LA Times bureau chief in Mexico City.听Listen to the full interview here. |
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When our Guest Editor Yoko Ono composed & played music in the 60s she felt that she suffered at the hands of a male dominated industry. We ask Lilly Allen, one of the big breakthrough acts of the last twelve months, if things have changed. You can listen to the full interview here. |
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Yoko Ono, our Editor today, is interested in exploring different paths to peace across the world. Sarah Grainger visited a displacement camp in the Gulu district of northern Uganda to see conflict resolution in action. You can listen to the full interview here. |
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Sports Update with Steve May. |
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Basra City council has said it won't cooperate with听UK forces in southern Iraq after troops destoyed the police station run by the serious crimes unit. We speak to Major Andrew Maskell and Major Charlie Burbridge. |
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Yoko Ono has given Today listeners one of her songs to re-edit on the website , which enables fans of particular bands to make their own,听personal mixes of songs without specialist equipment or experience. |
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Yoko Ono has long been interested in the use of music as a tool in various forms of therapy. She asked us to look at some of the听ways that music is being used to help and heal people in this country. |
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Is America at risk of forgetting about the high hopes and idealism that inspired its founding fathers? Yoko Ono asked the writer Jonathan Freedland to take a fresh look at the US Constitution with a little help from Ben Franklin and John Lennon's "Gimme Some Truth". |
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James Naughtie asks our Guest Editor of the day Yoko Ono, what she had wanted to hear on the programme and why. |
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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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