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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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0709: The Sutton Trust have said that Social Mobility is stagnating. Sir Peter Lampl set up the charity.
0712: The London Olympics is failing to increase participation in sport.
0716: Business news with Nick Cosgrove.
0720: The British Medical Association has accused the government of trying to undo the contract which allowed GPs to give up responsibility for out of hours care.
0725: Sports News and Garry Richardson is at Wimbledon.
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0730 - 0800
0730: We ask David Cameron how a Conservative government could reverse stagnating Social Mobility.
0740: A look at today's papers.
0743: Ten years ago Manchester's delapidating gothic monastery was sold for a pound, today it's multi-million pound restoration is complete.听
0747: Thought for the Day with Clifford Longley.
0750: A nanotechnology taskforce is being launched at Westminster today - science correspondent Tom Feilden is here to explain. |
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0800 - 0830
0810: John Humphrys has been travelling around the country exploring Social Mobility. What really lies behind it's apparent stagnation?
0820:Harriet Harman is Labour's new deputy leader but will not - it seems - be deputy prime minister. She joins us now.
0825: Garry Richardson has the sports news.
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0830 - 0900
0830: A new video of the 大象传媒's kidnapped Alan Johnston has been posted on the web.
0833: What changes will Gordon Brown make to government now he's in charge? Iain Watson is our political reporter.
0835: What will Tony Blair do now and will anyone listen? The former American Senator Lincoln Chafee and Mark Leonard, director of the European Council of foreign relations.
0841: Nick Cosgrove has the Business news.
0845: NICE - the body which recommends which treatments should be paid for by the NHS - is facing its first legal challenge today over access to drugs for Alzheimer's disease.
0850: Satirists will miss Tony Blair. Craig Brown of the Daily Telegraph gives us his verdict on The Tony Years.
0855:Andrew Keen has written a provocative book on the "Cult of the Amateur", he discusses his belief that "the Internet is killing our culture and assaulting our economy" with Bryan Appleyard. |
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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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