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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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Should it be easier for council tenants to buy a stake in their homes ? |
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Production resumes at Bernard Matthews plant in Norfolk today. We spoke to the听European Commission Health Spokesman. |
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A man with a gun has opened fire in a shopping centre in Salt Lake City killing several people. |
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The business news with Greg Wood. |
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The six-party talks in Beijing on North Korean disarmament appear to have made some progress. |
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The Japanese renew attemps to persuade the International Whaling Commission to allow听a resumption of whale hunting. |
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The sports news with Steve May. |
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Senior Judge, Paul Collins claims the Civil Court System is in crisis. |
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A look at today's papers. |
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A new album brings legitimacy to a unique type of music previously reserved for illegal internet activity and the underground circuit. |
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Thought for the Day with the Right Reverend Tom Butler. |
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Lord Crisp, former head of the NHS in England, is calling on the UK to do more to help health systems in developing countries. |
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We hear from Communities Secretary, Ruth Kelly, about why we should make it easier for council and housing association tenants to buy a stake in their homes. |
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There are reports that 15 people have been killed in a听suicide blast in Baghdad. |
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Controversial artists,听Gilbert and George,听talk to us about their听retrospective opening at Tate Modern. |
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0827 |
Sports update with Steve May. |
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The National Trust warns the Welsh coastline is threatened by erosion and flooding over the next century. |
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Robert Kilroy-Silk, MEP for the East Midlands, calls for men-only Mosques to be forced by law to admit women. |
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Can a new magazine mixing serious writing about world affairs and style and design really work? |
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Business update with Greg Wood. |
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Donald Gregg, former US ambassador to South Korea, on a听tentative agreement at North Korea's nuclear disarmament talks. |
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Why taking a regular siesta may be good for the heart. |
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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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