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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600-0630
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The Conservatives publish the first report from theirÌýDemocracy Taskforce today. |
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0712 |
What can we expect from the Cabinet policy review on crime? |
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0715 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0718 |
Chief Inspector of Probation, Andrew Bridges, has written a report that reveals a catalogue of probation failures. |
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0728 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0730 |
A new report finds some schools are punishing the victims ofÌýbullying rather than the bullies. |
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0735 |
WhatÌýdoes theÌýbank worker's union think of the head of investment banking atÌýBarclays earning 22 million pounds last year? |
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0740 |
The paper review. |
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0742 |
Arts Correspondent Rebecca Jones took a tour of the newÌýsurrealism exhibition at the V&A with the jazz singer George Melly. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Akhandadhi Das - a Vaishnav Hindu teacher and theologian. |
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0750 |
We report from the US where bolsteringÌýmarriageÌýis nowÌýa cornerstone of social policy. |
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0810 |
We speak to the Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer about the new Cabinet policy review on crime. |
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0820 |
There's continued speculation that the murder of Bob Woolmer is linked to match-fixing. How much hasÌýbetting corrupted the game? |
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0825 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0830 |
We don't often hear news from insideÌýBurma but correspondent Jonathan Head has been granted access and reports on life there. |
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0835 |
TheÌýbusiness update. |
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0840 |
In a year the 4.4 billion pound state of the artÌýTerminal 5 will open - what can we expect? |
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0845 |
Lord Anthony Giddens, the man who helpedÌýcreate New Labour, and David Willets, shadow education secretary, discuss the future of New Labour. |
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0850 |
Emergency legislation will be rushed through Parliament to give effect to the power-sharing deal brokered in Northern Ireland. |
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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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