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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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0711 |
The government is going to tell us its plans for ourÌýpensions today, and it is expected that the White Paper will include many of the proposals which were put forward by the Turner Commission. Lord Turner joins us this morning. |
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The Law Lords' rulings onÌýdivorce settlementsÌýmakes one thing certain: the courts are going to hear longer and even more complicated arguments about who is entitled to what after a divorce. Nicholas Mostyn QC is the lawyer for Melissa Miller, who got a ruling in her favour. |
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0717 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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Yesterday we previewed theÌýcompetition between Californian and French wines that was being held thirty years on from the famous blind tasting in which New World wines triumphed for the first time. What happened last night when the corks came out? Stephen Spurrier, wine writer, was the host. |
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0726 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0730 |
Last night Tony Blair finally got his education bill through the Commons, but only with the help of the Conservatives: 46 of his own backbenchers refused to support it. The Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, speaks to the programme. |
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0740 |
The Pagoda at Kew Gardens - built at the height of the fashion for Chinoiserie in English garden design in the mid 18th century - reopens for regular public visits today. Our reporter Sanchia Berg is at the top of it. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with the Reverend Joel Edwards. |
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0750 |
Five years ago, Oldham in Lancashire became the scene of the worstÌýrace riots in Britain for two decades. Ted Cantle, with a long career in public service behind him, was asked to look at the causes, and in his report he talked about different communities living "parallel lives". He was asked back to oldham to reflect on how much has changed since the riots. |
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0810 |
The former Work and Pensions Secretary, David Blunkett, talks to the programme about the government's plans for our pensions, which will be announced today. |
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0820 |
China, in the eyes of the Americans and many others, is behind a worldwide epidemic of intellectual property theft. But now there are signs the Chinese government may finally be ready to clamp down. |
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0826 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0830 |
The anniversary of the Dunkirk evacuationin 1940 begins tomorrow and a new book has been published which tells a side of the story we don't often hear - the story of those who were left behind to hold the line so the evacuation could take place. We speak to the author, Hugh Sebag Montefiore, and Colonel Julian Fane, who was awarded a Military Cross for his part in the operation. |
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0835 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0840 |
The Press Complaints Commission produces its annual report today - but it has of course been a year when the doings of its own chairman, Sir Christopher Meyer, have provoked plenty controversy. He speaks to the programme this morning. |
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0845 |
There is some research published today in the British Medical Journal which suggests that smoking a single cigarette can have an extraordinarily powerful and long lasting effect on young people.ÌýJean King is the Director of Tobacco Control at Cancer Research UK. |
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0850 |
Neil Churchill, the Director of Communications at Age Concern, and Alex Sergent, a student at Hull university and the Project Co-Ordinator of Catch 21, an organisation which seeks to engage young people in politics, talk to the programme about the Pensions White Paper. |
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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)
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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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