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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business. |
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0630-0700
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The UN General Secretary Kofi Annan will today launch a new humanitarian fund designed to sharpen up the way their organisation responds to emergencies. We speak to our own minister for International Development, Hilary Benn. |
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0712 |
We speak to Philip Hammond, the Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, about how we expectÌýto hear that the Government has not met its target to reduce child poverty. |
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0716 |
The business news with Greg Wood. |
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0720 |
The Food Standards Agency will decide today whether to go ahead with the 'traffic light' system of food labelling. We talk to Dr Susan Jebb, head of nutrition and health research at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, and Christian Cull, marketing director of Waitrose. |
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0725 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0731 |
Hear our latest report fromÌýBurma where Mike Thomson has been looking at the impact that the regime's policies have on the country's environment. |
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0740 |
Sales ofÌýrhubarb have increased 100 per cent from January 2005 to January 2006. We talk to JanetÌýOldroyd-Hulme, a rhubarb grower, about why this might be. |
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0745 |
Thought For The Day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser - Vicar of Putney. |
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0748 |
South Dakota's Governor has signed a bill into law that bansÌýabortion in the State. We talk to our correspondent in Washington and Daniel McConchie, vice president of the anti-abortion group Americans United for Life. |
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In 1998 the Government set themselves the target of eradicatingÌýchild poverty by 2020 and 2005 was set as the date for reducing child poverty by a quarter.Ìý This morning the Department for Work and Pensions will publish figures which are expected to show that the target was missed. We speak to Margaret Hodge of the DWP. |
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0820 |
New research suggests that during the cold war there were far greater links betweenÌýlabour politicians and communists in East Germany than had been previously thought. We speak to the author of the report, Stefan Berger, a Professor of History at the University of Manchester, and the former Father of the House, Tam Dalyell. |
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0830 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0833 |
The European Commission wants member states to have a commonÌýgas and electricity policy. We speak to the EU Energy Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs.Ìý |
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The public consultation on whether there should be a massÌýcull of badgers ends soon. Are we too quick to cull? Hear our report thenÌýan interview withÌýStephen Harris, the Professor of Environmental Sciences at Bristol University, and Robin Page from the Countryside Restoration Trust. |
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0840 |
TheÌýbusiness update with Greg Wood. |
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Hear our report onÌýchildÌýmurderers as we investigate a murder committed in 1903 by an eight year old boy. |
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There is now a company that will publish your book on the web, if a reader likes the look of an extract and buys it then they pay for the cost of having it printed and bound. We talk to Bob Young, the man who founded the company, and Neil Denny, the editor of The Book Seller. |
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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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