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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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Last night MP's voted forÌýevery member of the House of Lords to be elected. So what will happen now? We ask Leader of the Commons, Jack Straw. |
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IsÌýthe government'sÌýpolicy on drugs "driven more by 'moral panic' than by a practical desire to reduce harm". That's the verdict of a report published today. |
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0721 |
Business News with Greg Wood. |
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Leaders of the European Union will be discussing energy and the environment over the next couple of days. Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin explains. |
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0730 |
A diary belonging to the FirstÌýWorld War soldier Walter Hutchinson was sold at auction yesterday for ten times the guide price of £750. Read extracts from the diary. |
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Sports News with Steve May. |
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0740 |
Television companies meet the regulator today to discuss premium rate phone calls from which they make so much money. We speak to one man who ran up aÌýphone bill of £9000Ìýand the chairman of the regulatory bodyÌýSir Alastair Graham. |
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0750 |
For a long time scientists have been trying to give us aÌý"Unified Theory of Everything" in relation to the universe but some physicists are beginning to wonder whether we haven't spent the last 30 years going up a blind alley. |
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0752 |
Thought for the Day with Reverend Angela Tilby. |
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We are now four weeks into the newÌýBush strategy for Iraq. We speak to Major General William Caldwell in Baghdad. |
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Is there a workable solution to Britain's drugs problem? We ask Mark Easton, David Blunkett and Iain Duncan Smith. |
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John Inman the actor and star of TV sitcom 'Are You Being Served?', died in hospital early this morning. We speak to Wendy Richard about his life and career. |
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Today people born as a result of theÌýLebensborn Project will go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg to claim against the Norwegian government for the way they were treated. |
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0830 |
Sports Update with Steve May. |
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We hear form the new commander of U.S. forces, General David Petraeus, of Iraq in hisÌýfirst press conference and got reaction from Ali Allawi, former member of the Iraqi government. |
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0835 |
Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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Next week's House of Commons vote on the renewal of Trident seems to have sparked a huge musical protest, with more than 50 bands lending support to a new campaign for nuclear disarmament. We ask Brian Eno and Damon Albarn to explain more. |
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A documentary on Channel Four says scientists are wrong about the causes of global warming. Do we place too much faith in scientists when they can be just as wrong as anyone else? |
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Hereditary peer, Earl FerrersÌýand American journalist Stryker Macguire discuss the prospects for reforming the House of Lords. |
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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.
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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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