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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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Our Guest Editor today, Zac Goldsmith, asked us to look into whether or not holding referendums on all the big issues of the day would create a better and more perfect form of democracy. |
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We speak to Michael Mulford from the Royal Air Force's Rescue Centre about the听helicopter crash that happened last night off Morecambe Bay in Lancashire. |
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Business News with Nick Cosgrove. |
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How should the听Green Party plan its political future now that the main parties are moving onto its territory? Zac Goldsmith - who hopes to stand for the Conservatives at the next General Election - asked Mark Sanders to report. |
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Sports News with Steve May. |
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The UN has failed to agree on a call for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Somalia. We are joined by Yusuf Garaad Omara head of the 大象传媒's Somali service and Abdi Rashid A Sed, special emissary for President Abdullahi Yusuf of the transitional Somali government. |
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If you try to听stop something being built next door to you and you'll be accused of being a NIMBY - Not In My Backyard. Zac Goldsmith is keen to explore this further so we ask Shaun Spiers, Chief Executive of the Campaign to Protect rural England and Hilary Wainwright, Editor of Red Pepper magazine. |
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Thought for the Day with Anne Atkins - Novelist and Columnist. |
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Zac Goldsmith asked us look into the issue of food security and听promoting local food production. We speak to John Sherril, a farmer in South Devon and Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher from Addis in Ethiopia. |
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We speak to the General Secretary of the TUC, Brendan Barber, who says that the gap between the rich and those on average earnings is growing too wide - in the last 6 years Executive pay has risen 17 times faster than average wages. |
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Six bodies have been recovered from the sea after a听helicopter crashed last night in Lancashire. We speak to Colin Blaine. |
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Is cricket "nicer" than football?Zac Goldsmith asked Piers Morgan to chair a discussion between former England football captain Gary Lineker and the former England fast bowler Angus Fraser. |
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Sports Update with Steve May. |
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Is modern art just one big confidence trick? Does it work because people are afraid to express a contrary view? This is one of the issues raised by today's Guest Editor, Zac Goldsmith. |
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Cabinet minister Hazel Blears has joined a听protest against the closure of maternity services in her Salford constituency. We talk to Deborah Carter, Operations Manager of Women and Children's Services at Salford Royal Hospital Foundation Trust. |
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Business Update with Nick Cosgrove. |
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Each day we are covering a law short-listed in our Christmas Repeal. Today we look at the听Human Rights Act and we are joined by Labour peer Helena Kennedy QC and Bill Cash Conservative MP. |
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Is pinning听our hopes on science to save the day as deep an act of faith as any religious belief? Today's guest editor Zac Goldsmith asks the environmentalist Pat Mooney. |
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James Naughtie asks our Guest Editor of the day, Zac Goldsmith, what he 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.
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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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