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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business.
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TheÌý"cash for peerages" row is back on the front pages now that the police have made an arrest. We speak to the Labour MP Barry Sheerman, chairman of the Education Select Committee. |
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TheÌýNational Union of Teachers conference begins today. We speak to Steve Sinnott, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers. |
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0717 |
The business news with Richard Griffiths. |
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0721 |
TheÌýMuslim Task Force set up by the Ö÷²¥´óÐã office after the London bombings last July was supposed to target extremism and anti-Islamic feeling. What has been achieved? We talk to Shahid Malik, Labour MP for Dewsbury, who has taken an interest in the Task Force since it was set up. |
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The sports news with Steve May. |
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0730 |
DuringÌýhis speech in New Zealand, Tony Blair suggested an international agreement on a stabilisation goal for greenhouse gases. We speak to the government's chief scientist, Sir David King. |
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0745 |
A look at the papers. |
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0740 |
The remains of three British soldiers who died at Ypres in 1914 have been recovered by amateur archaeologists. Hear our report. |
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Hear the latest news on Iran. The American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, said last night that the United Nations had to deal seriously with the Iranians. We talk to Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, a Republican who has long taken an interest in Iraq and Iran. |
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Thought For The Day with Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
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How do you stop young people getting drawn into terrorism?Ìý We speak to Baroness Uddin, a Labour Peer, and Dominic Grieve, the Shadow Attorney General. |
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0825 |
Many of you entered our winter photography competition, so we've decided to have another one over this Easter weekend. |
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0827 |
Brian Howard from the Met Office gives us an indepth weather report for the Easter period. |
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Bertie Ahern, the Irish Prime Minister, has decided to reinstate the military parade in Dublin to commemorate the Easter Rising of 1916 - a controversial decision. We speak to Sinn Fein's Sean Crowe. |
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TheÌýbusiness update with Richard Griffiths. |
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In the first of two Easter essays for this programme, the author Rhidian Brook - who is travelling in Africa with his family - looks at the devastating effects of HIV in Kenya. |
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Have you done your cosmic ordering for the Easter holidays? Do you know what cosmic ordering is? We speak to the Bishop of St David's in Wales, Carl Cooper, who is going to talk about it in his Easter sermon today. |
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There are reports of an attempted suicide bombing attack on a convoy of British troops in the Helmand province in Southern Afghanistan. |
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Sir David King has said on this programme thatÌýglobal temperatures are likely to be driven up by 3 degrees in the next 100 years. We talk to Tony Grayling, from the IPPR, and Tom Burke, a former adviser to the Conservative PartyÌýon environmental issues.Ìý |
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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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