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Choose an audio clipÌýyou would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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Our correspondents Richard MironÌýin Haifa and Kim GhattasÌýin Beirut tell us the latest on the Middle East conflict. |
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0713 |
Iain Watson reports from Bassetlaw on the Labour MP John Mannsome's proposals to cut drug addiction, some of which are proving controversial with both the medical profession and with former addicts themselves. |
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0721 |
Sunni Palestinians in Gaza are giving Hezbollah a good deal of support. Lucy Williamson reports from Gaza City. |
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0724 |
TheÌýSports news with Mary Rhodes |
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0730 |
We talk to the senior officer, DCI Scott Wilson, investigating the case of the man shot dead in front of his children in Wembley on Tuesday. |
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0733 |
In 1956 Air Vice Marshall, George Black, then a 23 year-old RAF fighter pilot, got his first taste of action in Suez invasion. He tells us about the invasion. |
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0740 |
Thought for the Daywith Canon David Winter |
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The long tradition of volunteers turning out at night to feed the homeless in soup kitchens is being challenged by Westminster council.Ìý Nicola Stanbridge reports, and we talk to John Bird, co-founder of The Big Issue and Adam Sampson, Director of Shelter.
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OurÌýBeirut correspondent Kim Ghattas reports from the city where she has lived for many years about theÌý ground invasion it is assumed the Israeli army is getting ready for.ÌýWeÌýalsoÌýtalk to the former international development secretary Clare Short and the The foreign Office minister Kim Howells, who is in Beirut |
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R4's memory season is being launched today - and it includes a series of short stories about memory. We speak to Matthew Kneale, wrote one of them. |
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0840 |
Your letters |
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0845 |
Will a similar version ofÌýMegan's Law work in Britain.Ìý Matt Wells reports and we speak to Ö÷²¥´óÐã Office minister Gerry Stucliffe about it. |
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Our Religious Affairs Correspondent Robert Pigott reports that many Christian Republicans see support for the Jewish people as central to an approachingÌýarmageddon at the End of Time, necessary to the second coming of Jesus. |
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There's a crime writers' festival going on at Harrogate this weekend.ÌýOur reporter Luke Walton mingled with the delegates. |
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The latest on the Middle East Crisis. We talk to Naila Mouawad, who is the Lebanese Social Affairs Minister, about the response to that warning the IsraelisÌýgave to theÌýpeople living in southern Lebanon to leave. |
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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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