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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600 - 0630
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0700 - 0730
0709. Chairman of Cutty Sark Enterprises, Chris Livett and the architect Joe Sharovitch describe the possible extend of damage to Cutty Sark caused by fire in Greenwich.
0716. Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly will today outline major changes to the planning laws to reduce red tape.
0724. Business update with Greg Wood.
0726. Sports update with Garry Richardson.
0730 - 0800
0732. Former president of the British Arab Medical Association, Dr Ismail Jalil talks about what it is like trying to study in Iraq.
0744. Twenty five years ago this morning 3000 British troops landed on San Carlos bay in the Falklands.
0748. The thought for the day with Reverend Doctor Alan Billings.
0751. The British Medical Association's Chairman James Johnson has resigned after colleagues felt he had been "insufficiently sensitive" to the problems faced by junior doctors applying for training jobs under the controversial computer system. |
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0810. We talk to the chairman of the Cutty Sark Trust, Richard Doughty, about the fact that the police are treating the fire which has damaged a large part of the Cutty Sark at Greenwich as suspicious.
0814. Richard Lambert of the CBI and Neil Sindon, policy director at the Campaign to Protect Rural England, share their views on whether traditional public inquiries into major developments should be scrapped.
0824. Sports update with Garry Richardson.
0830 - 0900
0831. Chairman of the organisation Forward Thinking, William Sieghart talks about the latest fighting in Gaza.
0837. The story of the murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl kidnapped and eventually beheaded on camera in Pakistan five years ago has been turned into a film.
0841. Business update with Greg Wood.
0844. Landscape designer, James Alexander Sinclair and the garden writer and broadcaster Jane Owen discuss who makes the better gardeners - men or women?
0849. Head of Advice for the London Region of English Heritage, Paddy Pugh tells us what Cutty Sark, one of London's proudest maritime relics, means to him.
0853. Former commodore in charge of the landing force, Julian Thompson and Michael Clapp, former commodore in command of the amphibious task force, look back at the morning when 3000 British troops landed on San Carlos bay in the Falklands. |
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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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