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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600-0630
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to 29 terrorist attacks. |
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0711 |
The House of Commons has approved plans to update the UK'sÌýTrident nuclear weapons. |
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0714 |
The Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell is expected toÌýtell usÌýthe cost of theÌýOlympics today. |
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0720 |
Polls suggest that France's April PresidentialÌýelection could now be a three-horse race. |
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0725 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Nick Cosgrove. |
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0730 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0732 |
AÌývicar in south Wales was killed on his doorstep yesterday. |
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0735 |
We speak to the recently-retired deputy Secretary General of the UN,ÌýSir Mark Malloch Brown about Zimbabwe. |
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0737 |
TheÌýpaper review. |
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0740 |
A new species of carnivore has been discoveredÌýcalled the cloudedÌýleopard of Borneo and Sumatra. |
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0742 |
We visit a school where, to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade, the pupils will give up their names and be known as numbers. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Rev Angela Tilby, Vicar of St Bennet's Church, Cambridge. |
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0750 |
Lord Goldsmith talks to us about the proposals which emerged from last year's Fraud Review. |
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0810 |
Tony Blair has survived a sizeable backbench revolt and won the vote over the replacement of the Trident nuclear deterrent. We speak to Hazel Blears, Chair of the Labour Party. |
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0820 |
Are authors spending too much timeÌýthanking their friends and colleagues? |
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0830 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0835 |
Zimbabweans have been demonstrating outside the country's London embassy. We talk to some of those taking part. |
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0840 |
IsÌýgun crime in London falling? |
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0842 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Nick Cosgrove. |
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0845 |
A nurse and a chefÌýworking at aÌýcare home have been questioned over a suspected poisoning. |
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0850 |
David Cameron'sÌýhair has switched sides - his parting has swapped from the right to the left - what does this mean? |
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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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