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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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More than half of complaints to the NHS relates to cases surrounding the death of a patient, according to the Healthcare Commission audit. We talk to the Commission's Anna Walker and Ian Nott who has complained to the NHS. |
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The world's top climate experts are locked in debate about how the sea level will rise this century. |
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Business update with Greg Wood. |
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Chief Executive of the Board of Airline Representatives, Mike Carrivick and Tony Juniper from Friends of the Earth talk about the effect of higher air passenger duty starting from today. |
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Iain Maclean, professor of politics at Oxford,Ìýexplains what happened toÌýfunds intended for charities associated with a disaster in Aberfan over forty years ago. |
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Sports update with Steve May. |
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Our reporter Jon Manel investigates your concerns about waste in the NHS. |
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0745 |
The first stage of a ban on smoking in public places comes into force in France today. |
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TheÌýthought for the day with Dr Jeevan Singh Deol, lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies. |
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Liberal Democrat defence spokesmanÌýLord Garden talks about the fresh allegations about the Attorney General's role in connection with the investigation into alleged bribes by BAE to the Saudi government. |
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Police are still questioning 9 people and continuing to search homes and businesses following arrests in Birmingham yesterday. |
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The entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is launching a company which will allow parents to store blood from umbilical cords with the aim to help treat their children with stem cells in later life. |
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Writer Will Self has been around London to identify the different smells of the city. |
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Sports update with Steve May. |
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We put our listeners' concerns and suggestions about the NHS to the Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt. |
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Business update with Greg Wood. |
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The latest report from the International Panel on Climate Change comes out tomorrow. We talk to the Panel's lead author Michael Oppenheimer. |
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A trio ofÌýDanish Muslim rappers are hoping to challenge stereotypes of Muslims with their own brand of political hip hop. |
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Cambridge, Trevor Robbins discusses the ethic implication of taking drugs to enhance our brain activity. |
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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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