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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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Several thousand听British troops are taking part in a military operation against the Taliban. Alistair Leithead reports. |
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The 大象传媒's Panorama programme has听uncovered evidence that the Pakistan cricket coach听Bob Woolmer was poisoned before being strangled. We speak to reporter Adam Parsons. |
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Sports News with Garry Richardson. |
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Business News with Greg Wood. |
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The听Joseph Rowntree Foundation - which funds research into social policy - has brought out a report on poverty among ethnic minority groups. We speak to Professor Stephen Machin. |
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More Sports News with Garry Richardson. |
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Our correspondent, Mike Thomson has travelled to Eastern Congo where he spoke to a boy who recently escaped from a militia group. The听child admits to killing many people including members of his family when he was just 10 years-old. |
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Today's Papers. |
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The Israeli committee of inquiry, set up to examine last summer's war in Lebanon, will produce its report today. We are joined by Professor Avraham Diskin. |
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A type of native coral - the Pink Sea Fan - in an aquarium at London Zoo has suddenly begun to reproduce, and nobody knows why. Tom Feilden reports. |
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Thought for the Day with Abdal Hakim Murad - Muslim Chaplain at the University of Cambridge. |
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With only 3 days of campaigning left in the Scottish election, we speak to our political editor, Nick Robinson, about the prospects of the main parties and speak to Conservative Deputy Leader Murdo Fraser. |
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We speak to Jack Straw about his views on what he calls "identity politics" and the听impact of immigration on British society. |
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A father and son from Edinburgh claim to have uncovered and re-created听ancient music hidden in elaborate carvings in Rosslyn Chapel, on the outskirts of the Scottish capital. |
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Sports Update with Garry Richardson. |
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British-led forces in southern Afghanistan have launched a major offensive in the Sangin Valley in Helmand province where there's thought to be a large concentration of Taliban fighters. We speak to Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Grenier. |
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The European Union and the United States hold their听annual summit today - this year it's in Washington. So what does Washington make of the organisation that speaks in 23 languages and changes its presidency every six months? Jonny Dymond reports. |
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Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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We are joined by Iain Duncan Smith who has looked at the growing problem of听social mobility in this country as part of his work on Social Justice. |
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In memory of the Falklands war we will be hearing letters written between John Lippiett and his wife Jenny during the war which have now been published in the book, "War and Peas - Intimate Letters from the Falklands War". |
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How should one behave in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen? The state of Virginia has set up a website with tips on the correct protocol in preparation for the Queen's visit to the state this week. |
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The听Isle of Skye is to change it's name from it's current "adopted slave name" to it's original Gaelic name. We speak to a resident of the island Anne Healey. |
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The听Prime Minister will mark ten years in power this week. We are joined by Matthew D'Ancona, Editor of the Spectator and Kevin Mcguire, Associate Editor of the Daily Mirror. |
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We don鈥檛 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.听A 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 that听the 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, in听Rome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
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First 大象传媒 interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaks听to our reporter Zubeida Malik about听his ordeal and how he听continues to听campaign 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.听First 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 to听 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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