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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600-0630
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Rail accident investigators will publish their first report on the Cumbrian train crash today. |
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0712 |
Colonel Tom Collins, from the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, on the 1000 extra troops being sent to Afghanistan. |
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0717 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0720 |
ShouldÌýprisoners earn money from working in prison? |
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0725 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0730 |
A Panorama investigation concludes that the 75,000 assaults onÌýNHS staff every year cost the NHS £100 million. |
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0737 |
The paper review. |
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0740 |
A new play by Ian Curteis looks at what mightÌýhave happened whenÌýRobert Maxwell met Mother Theresa. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Clifford Longley, religious commentator. |
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Dame Helen Mirren has won the best actorÌýOscar for her performance in "The Queen". |
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Are supermarkets puttingÌýfarmers out of business so that we can have cheap food? ÌýWe ask Justin King, chief executive of Sainsbury's, and Peter Kendall, the president of the NFU, if cheap food is a good thing? |
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Should families whoÌýgive refuge toÌýgun users be banished from their communities? |
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0825 |
What happened whenÌýRory Bremner convinced Margaret Beckett that he was Gordon Brown? |
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0829 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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Why do only 2% of attacks onÌýNHS staff lead to prosecutions? |
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0840 |
What difference will 1000 extraÌýBritish troops makeÌýinÌýAfghanistan? |
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US Vice-PresidentÌýDick Cheney has arrived on an unexpected visit to Islamabad. |
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0847 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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Olympic runner Roger Black on childhood obesity. |
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More news fromÌýtheÌýOscarsÌýwhere Dame Helen Mirren has been named Best Actress. |
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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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