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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business. |
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0630-0700 |
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Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner and Britain's most senior police officer is under pressure to explain why he secretly taped a phone call with the attorney general. Could this be the final straw? Might he now be forced to resign? We're joined by the director of Liberty, Shami Chakrabati, and Richard Barnes, a member of the Metropolitan Police Authority. |
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The body of theÌýformer Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is due to be handed over to representatives of his family in the Hague this morning. But it is still not clear where Mr Milosevic, will be buried. Branko Ruzic is vice-president of Mr Milosevic's political party, the Socialist party of Serbia. |
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0718 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0722 |
Millions more people are about to face a hosepipe ban. This time it is Thames Water, the biggest water company in the country.Ìý Richard Aylard is their director of consumer affairs and Dame Eve Buckland chairs the consumer council for water. |
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0726 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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0730 |
It is ten years since the Dunblane massacre. Dr Mick North's daughter, Sophie, was among the children gunned down by Thomas Hamilton. He was part of the original campaign to get handguns banned from private ownershipand he iss still campaigning for a national firearms register. We speak to Dr North, and the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Office minister, Hazel Blears. |
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Biographical films telling the stories of people who have become incredibly famous or had extraordinary lives, have become popular in cinema. The latest British offering is Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's most prolific hangman, who once said he had no feelings about the people he executed. |
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0745 |
Thought For The Day with the Reverend Angela Tilby, Vice Principal at Westcott House in Cambridge. |
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0750 |
The University of Sussex is closing its high-ranking chemistry department. Professor Alasdair Smith, Vice Chancellor of Sussex University joins us, along with Dr Richard Pike, chief executive of the Royal Society for Chemistry . |
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0810 |
The United Nations security council is talking about Iran today and theÌýForeign Secretary Jack Straw is making a speech here about it. He talks to the programme about the biggest diplomatic crisis facing the world today. |
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0820 |
Increasing numbers ofÌýyoungsters are using coffee shops as their meeting places, but should teenagers be drinking caffeine at all. Professor Peter Rogers from Bristol University has studied the effects of caffeine on children, and Tomas Depaulis is a senior scientist at Vanderbilt University's Institute for Coffee Studies in Nashville. |
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0826 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0830 |
WhenÌýThomas Matussek became the German ambassador to this country three years ago relations were strained. Britain wanted to go to war against Iraq and Germany did not. And the friendship between Tony Blair and the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, turned into mutual loathing. Are things better now? We talk to the ambassador. |
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Two years after the Madrid bombing, how near are the Spanish authorities to establishing who was behind the attacks? TheÌýSpanish Justice Minister Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar is due in London to deliver a lecture on terrorism in Europe, and he joins the programme this morning. |
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TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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The former Bank of England economist, Danny Gabay and the life peer, Lord Onslow, discuss the issue of political donations and peerages. What is a peerage worth these days? |
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0850 |
It is the budget next week, and most people seem to think the Chancellor will penalise people who like to driveÌý big cars, especially the so-called SUVs. |
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Conservative MP, Rob Wilson, and Keith Hellawell, a former chief constable, discuss the latest controversy surrounding the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Ian Blair. |
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Some of Our Less Memorable Moments
These infamous sound clips have risen from the Today vaults again to haunt our newsreaders and presenters. Enjoy!
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Can of what John?
John gets confused over the expression, 'opened a can of worms.'
- 18th March 2005 |
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What is our website and email address John?
John gets confused about all this modern technology and it's David Blunkett Jim!
- 22 December 2004 |
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Who's reading the news Sarah?
Sarah introduces a guest newsreader. And it's catching, asÌýNick Clarke of the World at One demonstrates
- 4/5th October 2004 |
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The boy who likes to say YES!
Sports presenter Steve May is left trying desperately to get his seven year old guest to say something other than yes!
- 23rd September 2004 |
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When the technology failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004 |
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Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 25th October 2003 |
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Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002 |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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What is Charlotte Green giggling about?
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John and Jim share a joke about the weather? |
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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 Ö÷²¥´óÐã Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the Ö÷²¥´óÐã 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
Part 2 |
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First Ö÷²¥´óÐã 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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