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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600-0630
0630-0700 |
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The government has announced that school dinners in England will be free from chocolate, crisps, fizzy drinks and "low-quality" meat from the autumn. We are joined by the schools minister, Jim Knight. |
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FiveÌýillegal immigrants have been arrested after they turned up to work at the home office in the very building responsible for immigration control. We speak to Andrew Large, the Director General of the Cleaning and Support Services Association. |
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TheÌýresults for British Airways are out today. The airline's chief executive, Willie Walsh, speaks to the programme. |
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0727
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Thierry Henry is set to stay at Arsenal Football club. Gary Richardson tells us more in the sports news. |
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0730 |
It is a week since the start of a wave of violence which has swept though Brazil's biggest city, Sao Paulo. At least 150 people have been killed, many of them policemen attacked by organised gangs of criminals. We speak toÌýFrancesco Panizza, a professor of Latin American Politics at the London School of Economics. |
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0735 |
Should professional footballersÌýbe attacking the referee? Not according to Danny Olson. He coaches the boys at Monkseaton Community High School, who have just become the under-18 school champions. |
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0745 |
Thought for the day with the Right Reverend Richard Harries. |
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0750 |
Thousands ofÌýstudents are waiting to hear if they are going to be able to sit exams in the next few weeks, because of strike action by university lecturers. The senior lecturer in philosophy at Liverpool university, Dr Gillian Howie, and the Conservative MP, Boris Johnson, talk to the programme. |
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0810 |
Police have begun a murder investigation after aÌý15 year-old boy was stabbed to death at the gates of his school in north London. Staff and pupils looked on in horror as the victim was attacked as children left the London Academy in Edgware. Mike Frier is the Leader of Barnet Council. |
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0815 |
Thames Water, the biggest water company in Britain, hasÌýdecided not to applyÌýfor a drought order. We are joined by the companies environment director, Richard Aylard. |
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0822 |
A woman accused of turning an idyllic rural community into aÌý"hamlet of horrors" has been given an anti-social behaviour order. |
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0827 |
TheÌýsports news with Gary Richardson. |
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0830 |
The Church of England is about to publish a critical report into government policy in the inner cities. Lord Tebbit, and the Right Reverend Tom Butler, the Bishop of Southwark, talk to the programme. |
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0835 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Rebecca Marston. |
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0840 |
CompensationÌýpayments to prisoners have doubled in the last year to more than four million pounds. The Conservatie MP for Shipley, Philip Davies, and Juliette Lyons of the Prison Reform Trust, speaks to the programme. |
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0845 |
In Russia the trial is coming to an end of a man charged with being one of those who took the children hostage in that school in Beslan. He is Nurpashi Kulaev and he is said to be the only hostage taker who survived. |
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0850 |
A new book, The Ambassadors, charts the role and nature of diplomats throughout history. How has that role changed and what makes a good ambassador? Two former ambassadors, Sir Crispin Tickle, andÌýPeter Hinchcliffe, join the programme. |
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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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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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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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