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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600 - 0630
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0709 |
Greg Wood gives us more details of what has been called the world's biggest credit card heist. |
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0712 |
Bisher al Rawi, a British Resident held at Guantanamo Bay for five years, is to be released. |
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0715 |
Why doesÌýa bigÌýdrug company want to produce a vaccine from which it will not make money? |
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0718 |
Why are conservationists using rope mesh structures to help horseshoe bats cross a gorge? |
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0728 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0730 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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0735 |
The ChancellorÌýGordon Brown has just landed in Afghanistan. |
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0737 |
A schemeÌýwasÌýlaunched today to set up a network ofÌýcookery clubs around the country. |
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0740 |
The paper review. |
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0743 |
We report on a remarkable theatrical event - a production of King Lear directed by Sir Trevor Nunn and starring Sir Ian McKellen. |
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0747 |
Thought for the Day with the Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks. |
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0750 |
With only just over a month until the elections to the Scottish Parliament, theÌýSNP are maintaining a solid lead in the polls. |
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0810 |
Diplomats at the UN have expressed "grave concern" about the detention of 15 British navy personnel by Iran. Is this incident a product of an escalation of tension between Iran and the US? |
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0820 |
News on the possible take over of Boots. |
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0825 |
40 years ago today the Beatles released Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. We speak to Sir Peter Blake who famously designed its iconic cover. |
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0830 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0835 |
A new vaccine - Globorix - is being developed for use in Africa to fight meningitis. |
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0840 |
TheÌýbusiness update with Greg Wood. |
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0845 |
We report from an illegal gambling den in Lahore,Ìýwhere gamblingÌýis still a multi-million pound business. |
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0850 |
Breaking news fromÌýMoscow - President Putin's term of office may be extended. |
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0855 |
Are the British press guilty of misreporting what is happening in Zimbabwe? |
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0858 |
How should we respond toÌýIran's seizure ofÌý15 marines and sailors? |
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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)
Part 1
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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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