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0609 |
There was a moment's hope last night that there might be some more survivors of the landslide in the Philippines. |
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0611 |
Prince Charles is taking the Mail on Sunday to court, to stop his confidential diaries being made public. It's the first full day of hearings today. |
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0614 |
TheÌýÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood.
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0626 |
ThesÌýsports news with Mary Rhodes. |
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0630 |
The government wants to give us more power at a local level, but what does that mean? |
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0634 |
The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has arrived in Baghdad on a surprise visit. |
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0640 |
The newÌýWembley stadiumÌýwill not be ready for the FA cup final. |
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0645 |
AÌýreview of the papersÌýform the UK and France. |
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0648 |
Should the EU recommend the vaccination of poultry to guard against the spread of bird flu. That key question will be debated today in a committee of EU veterinary experts. They have the power to decide what the policy should be. |
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0651 |
North Yorkshire County Council is due to decide today on a controversial application to extend quarrying near the Thornburough Henges, Britain's largest ceremonial area from Neolithic times. |
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0655 |
UKIP is launching a new set of policies today, but will anybody notice?ÌýDavid Campbell-Bannerman is the party's chairman.
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The 2006 FA Cup final will now be held in Cardiff after the builder's of Wembley, Australian company Multiplex, announced they couldn't guarantee the stadium would be finished on time. The business editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, Ian Verrander, and David Mellor, the football columnist for the Evening Standard, discuss the controversial project.
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0715 |
David Irving, the British historian, has been jailed for three years in Austria for speeches he made there sixteen years ago in which he denied that the holocaust had happened. Should a man be sent to jail for his views, however repugnant they may be?ÌýLord Janner is the chairman of the holocaust educational trust. |
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0720 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood.
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0724 |
There is a bird fair in Stratford in two weeks time, where lots of people will buy and sell birds from all over Europe's this wise, given what is happening with bird flu? |
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0726 |
The sports new with Mary Rhodes. |
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0730 |
Earlier this month a woman with breast cancer went to court to force her primary care trust to give her the latest drug. She lost. Now a man is going to court over a drug that is aimed at people with the HIV virus. Will Nutland, from the charity Terrence Higgins Trust, and Dr Trevor Stamers, the Senior Chief in General Practice at St George's Hostpial Medical School, discuss the drug.
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0742 |
Following the debate in the House of Commons on a smoking ban, the Labour MP, Stephen Pound, came on this programme to announce that he was giving up smoking. He joins us again to tell us how its going.
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0748 |
Thought for the Day with Dr Indarjit Singh, Editor of the Sikh Messenger.
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0750 |
We speak to the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, about his surprise visit to Iraq - the first visit there by a senior British politician since the publication of the video apparently showing British troops beating up young Iraqis.
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0810 |
The government is setting out plans for a significant shift in the role of the state in people's lives. It wants to give more powers to local communities. The changes are being outlined in a speech today by the communities and local government minister, David Miliband, who joins the programme along with Oliver Letwin, the chairman of the Conservative Party's Research Department.
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0822 |
This week's winter Olympics kicked off with the mens team ski-jumping event. Britain's place in the world of ski-jumping may, in the minds of many of us, be forever associated withÌýEddie the Eagle Edwards who eighteen years ago became something of a symbol of heroic British failure in the sport.
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0826 |
Mary Rhodes brings us the latest sports news and talks us through her London marathon preperations. |
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0830 |
Was the historian David Irving's three year sentence justified? The historian Anthony Beavor, and Jonathan Goldberg QC, of the Association of Jewish Lawyers, discuss his case.
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0834 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0838 |
The Prime Minister wants Britain to lead the world on climate change - he's set a target of a 20% cut inÌýC02 emissions by 2010. But the latest government figures suggest we'll miss that by a long way.
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0845 |
A musical called Spamelot, based on 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' is coming to London from Broadway, where it has been a big success. We ask former member of Monty Python, Eric Idle, about the musical, and whether it bothers him that poking fun at religion offends so many people.
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0850 |
The latest social trends figures show a 45 % increase in the number of households which have a second home abroad. Matt Havercroft is the editor of A place in the Sun magazine and Ross Clark is a property writer for the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph newspapers.
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After a long honeymoon period, the Conservative party leader, David Cameron, has started to receive complaints about the direction the party is taking. One of his critics is Robin Harris, a former speech writer for Margaret Thatcher. He talks to the programme, along with an ally of Mr Cameron, Conservative MP Michael Gove.
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Some of Our Less Memorable Moments
These infamous sound clips have risen from the Today vaults again to haunt our newsreaders and presenters. Enjoy!
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Can of what John?
John gets confused over the expression, 'opened a can of worms.'
- 18th March 2005 |
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What is our website and email address John?
John gets confused about all this modern technology and it's David Blunkett Jim!
- 22 December 2004 |
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Who's reading the news Sarah?
Sarah introduces a guest newsreader. And it's catching, asÌýNick Clarke of the World at One demonstrates
- 4/5th October 2004 |
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The boy who likes to say YES!
Sports presenter Steve May is left trying desperately to get his seven year old guest to say something other than yes!
- 23rd September 2004 |
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When the technology failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004 |
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Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 25th October 2003 |
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Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002 |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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What is Charlotte Green giggling about?
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John and Jim share a joke about the weather? |
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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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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)
Part 1
Part 2 |
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First 91Èȱ¬ 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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Hillary Clinton talks toÌýJamesÌýNaughtie
Her questions surrounding theÌýWhite House handling of the Iraq war, plus her years with Bill in that stately building. |
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Mark Coles interviews Damien Hirst
......about his new exhibition in the small Slovenian capital Ljubljana, including drawings from his teenage years. |
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