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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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0709 |
Are twoÌýLabour MPs trying to find a contender to challenge Gordon Brown for the leadership? |
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0712 |
BSkyB are having a price row with Virgin cable TV. |
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0717 |
Iraq's cabinet approves a draft law which aims to shareÌýoil revenues amongst Iraq's ethnic groups. |
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0720 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0725 |
We look ahead to next week’s elections inÌýNorthern Ireland. |
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0730 |
TheÌýsports news with Mary Rhodes. |
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0733 |
Backbench Labour MPs have challenged Government plansÌýfor private companies and voluntary groups to runÌýprobation services. |
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0738 |
The paper review. |
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0741 |
Scientists move closer to recreating the conditions of the Big Bang. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Anne Atkins, Novelist and Columnist. |
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0750 |
Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights,Ìýtalks to us aboutÌýhis Equalities Review. |
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0810 |
How doÌýschools make decisions about whom to admit?ÌýOne Labour council has now taken the unprecedented step of introducing a lottery system for their most popular schools. |
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0819 |
Charles Clarke and Alan Milburn have emailed Labour MPsÌýrequesting an "open debate" on the party's future. |
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0822 |
Greg Wood gives us the latest business news asÌýshare prices in London fall heavily. |
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0822 |
The new release byÌýDeep Purple is being withdrawn from sale after their lead singer came on yesterday's programme and told fans not to buy it. |
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0828 |
TheÌýsports news with Mary Rhodes. |
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0831 |
Will the Government ban the creation ofÌýchimeras? |
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0835 |
Greg WoodÌýtalksÌýto the chief financial officer of BSkyB, Jeremy Darroch, about their row with Virgin TV. |
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0840 |
What information can a man who died 90 years agoÌýgive us aboutÌýBird Flu? |
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0845 |
ShouldÌýculture play a more vital role in international relations? |
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0850 |
A "clean" comedy club has opened as part of the Church of England's campaign to make Lent jollier. |
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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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