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TuesdayÌý18thÌýApril 2006Ìý
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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600 - 0630
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The Ö÷²¥´óÐã has been told ofÌýGPs earning as much as 250 thousand pounds per yearÌýwhile The Kings Fund claim that GP wage rises are in part responsible for the health services' financial deficit, Dr Hamish Meldrum of the BMA and Dr Barbara Hakin of Bradford Primary Care Trust.Ìý

0714
The Government is committed toÌýroad-charging but what's to be done with the revenue? Have the effects on both rural and urban areas been thought through? Prof Stephen Glaister.

0721
Rebecca Marston has theÌýbusiness news.

0730
AÌýbody found in the River Humber has been identified as that of an autistic 12 year old, who's mother is feared to have jumped from the bridge

0735
Sporting News from Garry Richardson.

0740
Later today Tony Blair will launch his Initiative for International Education, he wants 1000,000 more overseas students, we ask Lord Kinnock if we should be relying on foreign students to fund our Universities.

0748
It is one hundred years since theÌýSan Francisco EarthquakeSimon WinchesterÌýhas written a book about the event.

0752
Thought for the Day from the Right Reverend Tom Butler, Bishop of Southwark.

0756
David Cameron explains the final phase of his local election campaign - "Vote Blue, Go Green"

0810
Earnings in the NHS have been going up and up, as have its deficits. Has the Government got it sums wrong? Patricia HewittÌýexplains how this affects the the NHS budget.

0825
Sporting newsÌýfrom Garry Richardson.

0827
20 years on from theÌýChernobyl nuclear disaster and Greenpeace have released a report claiming that health effects have been grossly underestimated. Blake Lee-Harwood is Greenpeace Campaigns Director.

0833
Business newsÌýfrom Rebecca Marston.

0841
We announce the winner of our Easter Photography Competition. Eamonn McCabe, former picture editor of the Guardian is our judge.

0844
Sir Cliff Richard explains his campaign to extend musician's royalty rights.

0847
Dr Howard Stoate is on the Health Select Committee and David Green of the think tank Civitas continue the day's discourse on NHS deficits and GP's wages.
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Thought for the Day

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The Blunder Clips

Some of Our Less Memorable Moments
These infamous sound clips have risen from the Today vaults again to haunt our newsreaders and presenters. Enjoy!

Can of what John?
John gets confused over the expression, 'opened a can of worms.'
- 18th March 2005
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
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
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
When the technology failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004
Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 25th October 2003

Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002
Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster.
What is Charlotte Green giggling about?
John and Jim share a joke about the weather?
The Extended Interview

We don’t always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.

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"?
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.
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)
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.
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.
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)
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
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.
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)
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).
, about the recent increase of religious violence in Nigeria.
(19/05/04)
John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
(03/05/04).
Jim Naughtie interviews Bob Woodward.ÌýFirst Watergate, now a controversial book into events in the White House pre-Iraq war.
(20/04/04).
Sarah Montague interviews Paul Burrell.
The former royal butler denies betraying Diana, Princess of Wales, insisting his controversial new book was "a loving tribute".
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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