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Choose an audio clipÌýyou would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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Following a long legal battle, the Pentagon has finally released the names of the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. |
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0712 |
TheÌýLib Dem Spring Conference in Harrogate is celebrating a new leader, whilst returning to contentious party debates. |
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0716 |
Our World Affairs Editor, John Simpson, joins us from Baghdad to consider the future for Iraq. |
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0720 |
Yesterday in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy. |
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0725 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0731 |
Sir Menzies Campbell is hoping to forge ahead with policy decisions at Harrogate this weekend; not least regarding controversial plans to part privatise Royal Mail. Party moderniser Nick Clegg, joins us. |
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0740 |
Jamaican reggae superstars Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, who have worked with renowned artists such as Serge Gainsbourg, are celebrating the 30th year of their collaboration. Our reporter Mark Coles joined them on tour. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Brian Draper, lecturer at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. |
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0750 |
Mark Malloch Brown, Chef de Cabinet to the UN Secretary-General, discusses the UN and their controversial report on Guantanamo. |
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0810 |
FormerÌýLiberal Democrat leader Sir David Steel and the party's newest MP, Willie Rennie, discuss the challenges facing Sir Menzies Campbell. |
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0820 |
A selection of listener's letters, including poems on windfarms. |
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0824 |
Liberal Democrat Environment spokesmanÌýNorman Baker offers his own ode to windfarms. |
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0826 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0831 |
US lawyer Joe Margulies and Congressman Mark Kirk discuss the reaction ofÌýWashington to our interview with a Guantanamo detainee yesterday. |
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0840 |
Chris Huhne, the defeated leadership candidate, joins us at the Liberal Democrat Spring Party Conference. |
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0845 |
Paul Toyne of the environmental group Article 13, claimsÌýa newÌý91Èȱ¬ production is mere "wildlife porn". Alastair Fothergill, executive producer of Planet Earth, defends the programme. |
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Jonathan Aitken and Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford, discuss Tony Blair's insistence that his decision to go to war with Iraq will be judged by God. |
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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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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 91Èȱ¬ Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the 91Èȱ¬ 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)
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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