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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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Iran has released theÌý15 British captives as "an easter gift to the British people".Ìý But has protocol been followed? Col Bob Stewart. Ìý |
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0712 |
Ruth Kelly will announce a new action plan to tackle Muslim extremism, but is it anything new? Lord Ahmed thinks he's heard it all before. |
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0715 |
Greg Wood has theÌýbusiness news and apparently Channel 4 is running out of money. |
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0718 |
Should scientists be allowed to createÌýchimera embryos that are part human and part animal? |
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0723 |
Could a new harbour development destroy the picturesque calm of Whitby? |
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Sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0730 |
An update on the progress of the 15 released Britons. |
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0733 |
America has a new director of national intelligence: Mike McConnell. Frank Gardner was there while he voiced his greatest fears. |
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A review of today's papers. |
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0740 |
TheÌýCricket World Cup has been devastating for India; their coach has quit and the district of Jind has banned the game all together. |
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0744 |
Thought for the Day with the Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool. |
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American Civil Rights groups are calling for a six month freeze on repossessions asÌýsub-prime loans land manyÌýpoor American families into financial trouble. |
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Ruth Kelly will talk us through the latest action plan to prevent Muslim extremism. |
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TheÌý15 British service personnel are winging their way home, but is their release a triumph of British diplomacy or a very public victory for President Ahmadinejad? Lord Lamont, chairman of the British Iranian Chamber of Commerce and Robert Cooper is a former British diplomat and advisor to the EU's Javier Solana. |
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0820 |
On the 150th anniversary of his birth,ÌýElgar - a truly original composer or a parochial relic? |
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0825 |
Sport's newsÌýwith Garry Richardson. |
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0820 |
Despite the SNP's core policy of independence being supported by only 27% of Scots, Labour are still trailing in the Scottish polls. Jack McConnell is Scotland's First Minister. |
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0828 |
Greg Wood has theÌýbusiness news. |
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0833 |
Have the promises made at theÌýGleneagles G8Ìýbeen kept? |
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0840 |
Should cigarette style warnings be emblazoned across air travel advertisements? |
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Where does the Iranian captive ordeal leaveÌýthe Navy and its tactics when patrolling the border with Iran? Admiral Sir Alan West was the First Sea Lord until 2006 |
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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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