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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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The European Commission will today announce proposals for binding laws to reduce carbon emissions from new vehicles. |
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There has been a spate of murders inÌýPeckham in the past few days. We talk to Shaun Bailey, director of a youth and family charityÌýMy Generation. |
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A group of people who lost theirÌýpensions are in the High Court today trying to establish their right to compensation. |
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We should hear later today whether a vet has contracted bird flu. |
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TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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Test Match umpireÌýDarrell Hair is suggesting he was a victim of racial discrimination following the ball tampering debacle at the Oval last year. |
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TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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What should be done with the House of Lords? We talk to the former Conservative chancellor Kenneth Clarke and Lord Steel,Ìý the former Leader of the Liberal Democrats. |
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Boris Johnson MP shows us his favourite pieces from theÌýWilliam Hogarth exhibition which opens at the Tate Britain today. |
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Thought for the day with Professor Mona Siddiqui. |
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0750 |
We look at Zimbabwe, where 80% of the population is unemployed and inflation is running at 1000% |
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The stabbing of Damilola Taylor led to a massive regeneration project in Peckham. Seven years on,Ìýin the wake of the shooting dead of a 15 year old boy at his home, hasÌýthe area improved? |
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Are thereÌýmore novels than ever set in the second world war? We talk to novelists Justin Cartwright and James Delingpole. |
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TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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The Muslim Council of Britain met with community leaders and the families of some ofÌýthe men arrested by anti-terrorist police last night. |
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0836 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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We talk to Robert Macnamara, American defence secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson about lessons learned from the cold war. |
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Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad is launching aÌýtribunal to try Tony Blair and George Bush for war crimes. |
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What is the key to living in aÌýsafe and pleasant environment with good public services? |
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The Birmingham royal Ballet is restaging the story ofÌýCyrano de de Bergerac - the lover with a big nose. |
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The vet who fell ill after helping contain theÌýbird flu outbreak in Suffolk has tested negative for the disease. |
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We don’t 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.ÌýA 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 thatÌýthe 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, inÌýRome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
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First ´óÏó´«Ã½ interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaksÌýto our reporter Zubeida Malik aboutÌýhis ordeal and how heÌýcontinues toÌýcampaign 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.ÌýFirst 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 toÌý 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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