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Today's Briefing Hour:Ìý Catch up on the days news, sport and business |
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0600-0630
0630-0700 |
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0709 |
The Government is introducing a new system for assessing the skills ofÌýimmigrants from outside the EU. We speak to Damien Green the Conservative spokesman on immigration. |
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0712 |
Ofwat (the Office of Water Services) is publishing an interim report today into the allegations that Severn Trent Water gave misleading information about the amount of leakages in the system in order to justify large price rises. |
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0716 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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Today EU vets will meet to discuss lifting the ban on the export of live veal calves. The trade was banned ten years ago in the wake of the BSE crisis though it had already become the focus of public anger at the conditions endured by the animals. We speak to Nancy Phipps, the mother of Jill Phipps who died in 1995 when she was crushed to death during a protest against the exports and, Peter Kendall, the President of the National Farmers' Union. |
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Alice Baker, one of the last surviving women to have served in the First World War, has died aged 107. We talk to Max Arthur who has interviewed many of the survivors of the war. |
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0731 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0740 |
Hear our report from insideÌýBurma where for nearly 60 years armed ethnic groups have been waging a war with the country's military government. |
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0745 |
Hear our interview with Robert Easton, Hollywood's leading voice and dialect coach. |
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0748 |
Thought For The Day with Dr Indarjit Singh the editor of the Sikh Messenger. |
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0745 |
Should Mothers be allowed to useÌýfrozen embryos without the consent of the Father of the embryo? We speak to Baroness Ruth Deech is former chairman of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and John Harris, Professor of bioethics as Manchester University School of Law. |
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0810 |
We speak to Charles Clarke about the new skills assessment ofÌýmigrant workers coming to Britain from outside the EU. |
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0820 |
It is 25 years almost to the day since Garry Richardson presented his first sports slot here on Today. We look back at some classic Garry moments.Ìý |
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0825 |
The two British men freed after being jailed inÌýEgypt for belonging to a banned Islamic group, say that the UK Government did not do enough to help them. |
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0833 |
TheÌýbusiness update with Greg Wood. |
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0837 |
The Government is publishing its latest assessment on the state of England's cities. Do England's main provincial cities come up to the standards in their European counterparts? We speak to David Miliband. |
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0840 |
A vicar whose daughter was killed in the 7th of July suicide bombings has resigned because she cannot forgive the perpetrators. We speak to Rev Julie Nicholson and a friend of the family the Rt Rev Michael Hill. |
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Students and lecturers are calling for a Leeds University don to be sacked after he said he supported a theory that black people were inferior to whites. We speak to the accused, Frank Ellis, a lecturer in Russian and Slavonic studies, and Matt Kennard from the student newspaper.Ìý |
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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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