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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600-0630
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The latest on what passengers can take onÌýboardÌýUKÌýflights. |
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0713 |
PresidentÌýGeorge W. Bush is launching a final drive to try to help Republicans maintain control of the US Congress. Justin Webb has been watching him at work. |
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0717 |
Business news with Greg Wood. |
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0719 |
IsÌýchildren's television in crisis? |
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0723 |
One of the officers who shot dead the innocent Brazilian,ÌýJean Charles de MenezesÌýhas also shot and injured a man in Kent. |
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0725 |
Garry Richardson with the sports news and an interview with UEFA President, Lennart Johansson. |
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0733 |
Has Britain becomeÌýa surveillance society? The Information Commissioner says millions of usÌýare routinely monitored. |
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0740 |
AÌýreview ofÌýtoday's papersÌýfrom Susan Rae. |
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0743 |
How the 80sÌýpop groupÌýA-ha inspired the next generation. |
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0747 |
Thought for the Day with Martin Palmer, Director of an International Consultancy in World Religions. |
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0749 |
Edward Stourton speaks to theÌýformer president of Iran, Mohammad Khatami, who saysÌýwe are right to be worried about radicalism among young British Muslims. |
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0810 |
Researchers sayÌýteenagers in the UK are more anti-social than young people in almost any other country in Europe. Would teenagers behave better if they spent more time with their families?
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0821 |
Does knowing more about aÌýcomposer's thoughts add or detract from the music? |
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0828 |
Sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0835 |
Hear more from James NaughtieÌýin Tennessee and covering the US mid-term elections. |
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Greg Wood takes a look at supermarket finance in aÌýbusiness news update. |
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0845 |
How can we make theÌýworld wide web better? Hear from the man who invented it. |
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0848 |
How much would you pay to live a year longer if you had cancer? |
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Our Middle East correspondent, Matthew Price finds out why Christians are leaving Bethlehem. |
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Is it true we're beingÌýconstantly monitored and can it all be for our own good? |
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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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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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