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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business.
0600-0630
0630-0700
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Edward Stourton reports from Tel Aviv on the result of the Israeli elections. |
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0714 |
The Solicitor General, Mike O'Brien, explains the government's attempts to make trials inÌýrape cases less traumatic for victims. |
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0719 |
The consortium trying to bid forÌýITV is expected to put forward a new offer today. |
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0721 |
Business with Rebecca Marston. |
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0723 |
Labour MP Mary Creagh explains her campaign forÌýevery house toÌýbe fitted with a device preventing theÌýwater coming out of taps from being too hot. |
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0727 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0730 |
Labour MP Professor Avishai Braverman and Shaul Goldstein, Mayor of a West Bank settlement that will be outside Israel's borders under the Olmert plan, discuss the challenges that lie ahead for aÌýKadima led government. |
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0740 |
The NFU are urgingÌýcouncils not to cancel orders for hanging baskets because of hosepipe bans, as this will plungeÌýhorticulturalistsÌýinto a financial crisis. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Akhandadhi Das - a Vaishnav Hindu teacher and theologian.
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0750 |
Following Dr Rowan Williams' call for world leaders to act morally on climate change, we speak to James Connaughton, President Bush's environmental adviser. |
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0810 |
We review Kadima's perforance in theÌýIsraeli elections with Tzahi Hanegbi, a prominent member of the party, and our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen. |
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0818 |
Should we volunteer more, or does the government useÌývolunteers to provide cheap social services? Baroness Neuberger and Iain Duncan Smith discuss the issue. |
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0823 |
The annual nationalÌýincome figures will be released today, and it seems we may now be making more from overseas profits than ever before. Our Economics Editor Evan Davis explains. |
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0827 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0830 |
Julian O'Halloran reports on the rise of racist attacks in Russia. |
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0836 |
Some newly discovered music byÌýLiszt will be performed for the first time tonight; Bob Chilcott, who will be principle guest conductor, explains more. |
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0840 |
Business with Rebecca Marston. |
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GeneralÌýPatrick Cordingley, who led the Desert Rats in the 1991 Gulf War, discusses a newÌýreport onÌýDeepcutÌýwhich is due to be published later today. |
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0849 |
A row has erupted over the environmental impact of relaxing the 70mphÌýspeed limit on the motorway. Robert Gifford of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety, joins us. |
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0849 |
How does the rest of the world view Kadima's victory in Israel? Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador to Israel, Mustafa Barghouti, who was a presidential candidate in last year's Palestinian elections, and Professor Abraham Friedman, at one time Israel's top civil servant, discuss the response. |
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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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