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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 Assets Recovery Agency was set up to ensure that crime does not pay - it has a staff of 200 and since 2003 it has been trying to force criminals to give up their ill-gotten gains. Grant Shapps, a Conservative MP, has been investigating the agency's record. Jane Earl is the Director of the Assets Recovery Agency. |
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Abu Bakar Bashir who was jailed in connection with theÌýBali nightclub bombings of 2002, was released in Indonesia this morning. We speak to Susannah Miller from the UK Bali Victims Group. Her brother was killed in the attack. |
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0717 |
TheÌýbusiness newsÌýwith Greg Wood. |
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Fathers Direct have issued a 'Dad Pack' telling you how to raise children under the age of 5. It has been criticised in the papers for being too obvious. Jack O'Sullivan is the co-founder of the organisation. |
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0725 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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0730 |
The Europe ministerÌýGeoff Hoon says he wants to "rekindle interest in the European Union" and restart the debate about its future. He speaks to us this morning. |
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TheÌýdrought may be bad enough in south east England. In south east Spain, it is crushing. People are not talking about a hosepipe ban, but whether parts of the country are sustainable at all, as our Europe correspondent Tim Franks reports. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Sir Jonathan Sacks, the Cheif Rabbi. |
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Guantanamo Bay has been in the news over the past few days because of the recent suicides there. A senior State department official, Colleen Graffey, said they were "a great PR move" and "a tactic to further the jihadi cause". John Bellinger is the legal advisor to the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice and he joins us this morning. |
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0810 |
We speak to Chief Superintendent Ali Dizaei of the Metroplolitan Police, and the former home secretary David Blunkett, about the Police raids in Forest Gate. |
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Sting has announced that he's recording an album on theÌýlute - it's coming out in the autumn and will feature the music of the 16th century lute composer John Dowland. The secretary of the Lute Society, Christopher Goodwin, Ìýtalks to us this morning. |
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0826 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0830 |
What is life like for people in Baghdad now? Our correspondent talked to one resident of the city, an academic at Baghdad university who initially welcomed the American invasion. |
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0840 |
TheÌýbusiness newsÌýwith Greg Wood. |
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The Liberal Democrats have pulled out theÌýcross party agreement on climate change amid a certain amount of mutual recrimination with the Tories. Chris Huhne is the Liberal Democrats environment spokesman and Peter Ainsworth does the same job for the Tories. |
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TheÌýAnglican Church in the United States meets today for its governing convention, which is due to decide whether to obey its teaching on sexuality or be excluded from the worldwide communion. |
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The Israelis have said that they were not responsible for theÌýdeaths of Palestinian civilians on a beach in Gaza at the weekend. Hussan Zomlot is the PLO's deputy representative in Britain.
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John Updike's latest novel looks at the issue of terrorism. We have been speaking to Matthew D'Ancona and Henry Porter who have also written novels on the subject. |
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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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