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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600 - 0630
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07:10 Graham Brady, the Conservative Europe spokesman, has been "severely reprimanded" by the party's chief whip after suggesting that grammar schools improve the results of entire neighbourhoods.
07:15 An investigation for Radio One's Newsbeat has discovered that police forces across the UK are seriously worried about the rising numbers of young people who are drinking and driving.
07:22 The business news with Greg Wood.
07:25 A Rowntree Foundation survey finds that a quarter of Eastern European migrants plan to stay permanently in this country. We ask what has persuaded them to stay?
07:28 The sports news with Garry Richardson.
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0730 - 0800
07:30 Bridget Kendall - Moscow correspondent through the transition from communism - has gone back to track the changes to the country under Putin.
07:35 A look at today's papers.
07:40 A 92 year old woman who's spent more than half her life charting the flora of Orkney from a Robin Reliant has been awarded an honorary degree.
07:45 Thought for the day with Dr Indarjit Singh -Director of the Network of Sikh Organisations.
07:50 NHS trusts could be risking the safety of mothers and babies by using maternity support workers to do the work of trained midwives.
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0800 - 0830
08:10 Recent research suggests that public policy should reflect the rise in Eastern European migrants. We speak to Tomas Peckys, a Lithuanian migrant and David Green, Civitas.
08:20 Our reporter talks to Peter Blake about the new exhibition at Tate St Ives dedicated to the Beach Boys' main songwriter Brian Wilson.
08:25 Sports update from Garry Richardson.
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0830-0900
08:31 The Gay Activist Peter Tatchell was arrested in Russia while trying to deliver a petition to the Moscow Mayor who'd banned a gay rights parade. We spoke to him and Robert Service, a Professor of Russian History at St Antony's College, Oxford.
08:35 Business update with Greg Wood.
08:40 Researchers believe they have found a new way to treat the deadly H5N1 Bird Flu virus.
08:45 More from our series of letters from the Falklands War, and John Geddes, who fought in the battle of Goose Green.
08:50 Is it right that a terminally ill cancer patient in the Netherlands is donating a kidney to one of three TV show contestants?
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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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