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Choose an audio clipÌýyou would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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0709 |
ScientistsÌýknow more about the type of flu virus that killed the swan in Scotland and where it may have originated. We speak to Dr John McCauley from The Institute for Animal Health. |
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David Cameron addresses his party's spring forum this morning. What can we expect him to say? |
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0714 |
UKIP are still planning to drive a tank to the Tory Party's Conference. They are trying to park it on Mr Cameron's lawn. We talk to Nigel Farage, one of UKIP's MEPs. |
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0717 |
Prince Harry's exploits at a lap dancing club are the talk of the town today. Peter Hunt, our Royal correspondent, tells us more. |
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0721 |
The American administration and the European Union have cancelled direct aid to the Palestinian authority.ÌýWe speak to Ghiza Ahmed Hamad of Hamas, who gives us his reaction. |
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It is six months since the terribleÌýearthquake in Pakistan where more than 70,000 people died and many more were injured. Our correspondent Nick Bryant has been back to an area that was badly hit. |
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0735 |
A look at the papers with Chris Aldridge. |
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0738 |
The Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres in Belgium hopes its new exhibition will help to teach future generations about the so-called "Great War". The show focuses on what the museum's director Pete Heelans describes as the last real witness of the war - the landscape. Hear our report. |
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0745 |
Thought For the Day with Reverend Rob Marshall, an Anglican Priest. |
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0751 |
What is causing the French demonstrations? We speak to two French authors, Vladimiir Cordier,author of 'Enfin un Boulot' (translated to 'At LastÌýA Job!') and Philippe Auclair, who writes for aÌýpolitical weekly called Marianne. |
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David Cameron makes his speech at his spring forum this morning, we expectÌýhe will talk about the big changes to the Conservatives. But how much have they really changed? We speak to Oliver Letwin, the Shadow Ö÷²¥´óÐã Secretary. |
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0822 |
Hear some of our listener's letters and emails. |
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0827 |
TheÌýsports news with Rob Nothmann. |
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0833 |
Hear the story of a man who calls himself Kevin Fulton. He was born in Northern Ireland, joined the Army and was trained as an undercover agent. He then joined the IRA, subsequently the Real IRA, and spied on them from inside. |
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The Rolling Stones play their first ever concert in China today. But the Chinese government have told the band not to play certain songs because the lyrics are apparently too risqué. Mick Jagger isÌýin Shanghai and has been talking to the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes about falling foul of the censor. |
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Prince Harry is in the papers today for watching lap dancers. We speak to Lance Gerrard-Wright, former equerry to Andrew, the Duke of York. |
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John Stuart Mill, the philosopher whose ideas of freedom have influenced generations of thinkers, was born exactly 200 years ago. We speak to John Skorupski, Professor of Philosophy at St Andrews University (author of 'Why Read Mill Today?'), and Georgios VarouxakisÌýwho is aÌýlecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London. |
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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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