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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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When speaking about Britain's prisonsÌýLord Phillips said they will be "full of geriatric lifers" because some murderers are serving too long behind bars. Danny Shaw reports. |
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Lord Levy's Rabbi has suggested that he may be being "hung out to dry" in the cash for honours scandal. We speak to the Editor of the The Jewish Chronicle David Rowan. |
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WeÌýspeak to a couple whoÌýthought they were married until they found out the Wedding Rooms in Hornchurch, where they wed, didn't have a license. |
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Business News with Greg Wood. |
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TheÌýBritish government - whilst supporting cuts in emissions - is pressing the EU to invest heavily inÌýcarbon capture and storage schemes. Jonny Dymond reports from Norway. |
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Sports News with Steve May. |
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DespiteÌýthousands of objections being lodged, work begins this weekend to build an underground car park in Farnham in Surrey. Polly Billington reports. |
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Secret proceedings begin today against 14 men held by the American authorities atÌýGuantanamo Bay We speak to one of the men's lawyers. |
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The latest work from Michael Nyman, "Handshake in the Dark", was commissioned for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and received its world premiere at the Barbican in London last night. Rebecca Jones reports. |
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Thought for the Day with the writer Rhidian Brook. |
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In Ireland the Democratic Unionists are pushing for a package of economic measures from Westminster. And they are insisting if they don't get what they want there will be noÌýpower sharing agreement. |
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Has Lord Levy been "hung out to dry" in the cash for honours affair? His solicitor says that some comment about him in the media is based on leaks that are "partial, contradictory, confused and inaccurate." We speak to Sir Alan Sugar who has know Lord Levy for a long time. |
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The most senior judge in England and Wales, Lord Phillips, has called for a re-think of theÌýminimum terms handed to criminals sentenced to life. We speak to Sir Louis Blom-Cooper and Anne Widecombe. |
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Sports Update with Steve May. |
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The EU will be 50 this year. To mark the occasion a document called theÌýBerlin Declaration has been drawn up. We ask Mark Leonard wrote the book, "Why Europe will run the 21st Century" and Neil O'Brien Director of the Eurosceptic think tank "Open Europe" what they would like to see in the Declaration. |
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We hear some of theÌýnominations for the Oddest Book Title of the Year. |
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Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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The 11 nations governing theÌýInternational Tracing Service met this week in the Hague to discuss how to open the Bad Arolsen Papers to researchers which have been sealed from public view for 60 years. |
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Australia's rural communities are hoping to benefit from Britain's junior doctor recruitment fiasco. They have launched a hi-tech recruitment drive in the hopeÌýBritish doctors will go and work in practices serving remote communities. |
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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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