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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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TheÌýrow over sentencing is not going away. Now the Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer hasÌý defended the judge who has been attacked for giving a 'soft sentence' to a paedophile who abducted and assaulted a little girl. The shadow attorney general is Dominic Grieve. |
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More thanÌý300 football fans were arrested in Dortmund last night before the World Cup match between Germany and Poland. It is the first serious trouble of the competition. |
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0717 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels today for their summit, and to talk about trying to revive the idea of a constitution. Or at least, that's what UKIP is afraid will happen. Its leader is Roger Knapman. |
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David Hensel got a bit of a surprise yesterday. He's a sculptor and he popped in to the summer exhibition of theÌýRoyal Academy to see his work on display. It wasn't there.Ìý But the plinth was. Some sort of mistake surely? |
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0726 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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Contrary to talk of a shortage of doctors in the UK, thousands may be forced to leave the country to find a job. That is what the British Medical Association says and the chairman of its junior doctors committee Dr Jo Hilborne is on the line. So is the health minister Lord Warner. |
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Children's playgrounds are too safe. That is what a lot of people have been saying for a long time now. Because of our obsession with eliminating risk the fun has been taken out of them. Well, now there is an unlikely ally to that cause: the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with The Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool. |
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In the aftermath of the killing of Abu Musad al-Zarqawi the Iraqi governmentÌý has promised tighter security for citizens, who're having to contend with daily violence. We speak toÌýGeneral Rob Fry, deputy commander of all multinational forces in Iraq and the most senior British officer there. |
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0810 |
We speak to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Faulkner, who has defended judges following criticism from the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Secretary John Reid. |
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The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction was won last night by a book about Shakespeare that takes an unusual biographical approach. It has been written by James Shapiro who joins us this morning, along with Sir Richard Eyre, one of the judges on the panel. |
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0826 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0830 |
The Sun newspaper this morning reports that large sums of cash wereÌý found in the house that was raided in Forest Gate. |
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0840 |
The gay American bishop, Gene Robinson, has called on his church not to be swayed by the fear of a deepening rift in the worldwide Anglican communion over his consecration. |
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TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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A remarkable letter has come to light from 1982, written by Tony Blair to Michael Foot in which he expresses a debt to Karl Marx, who, he said, had irreversibly altered his views about society. We are joined by Tony Benn, and Anthony Seldon, a biographer of Mr Blair. |
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Albie Sachs fought for human rights in South Africa. He became a freedom fighter in the African National Congress. Or, as the govt at the time put it, a terrorist. They locked him up. Today he is a judge and sits on the country's constitutional court. Judge Sachs is in this country to talk about human rights. |
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England play Trinidad and Tobago this afternoon. Our reporter, Jon Manel, is in Nuremberg. |
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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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