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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on theÌýlatest news, sport and business. |
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0630-0700
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0709 |
Following the release ofÌýNorman Kember, security expert Neil Quilliam and Felicity Arbuthnot, a journalist who worked in Iraq and was a friend of Margaret Hassan, discuss kidnappings in the region. |
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0716 |
As inquiries are launched into the dubious system of loans to fund political parties, Iain Watson reports on whetherÌýstate funding is a viable alternative. |
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0719 |
Business with Rebecca Marston. |
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0722 |
Dr Lee Hooper of the University of East Anglia explains why fish oils containingÌýOmega 3 may not be beneficial for our health. |
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0727 |
Sports update with Steve May. |
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0732 |
The Metropolitan Police may face legal action after the year long trial of a family of theatregoers who were accused of drug dealing, collapsed earlier this week. Nicola Stanbridge met theÌýCrooks family. Keith Jarrett of the National Black Police Association, joins us. |
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0740 |
Are urban regeneration plans resulting in the privatisation of public space? Anna Minton, the author ofÌýaÌýRoyal Institute report, and Mike Burchnall of Liverpool council, discuss the situation. |
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0747 |
Thought for the DayÌýwith Rev Dr Alan Billings - Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University.
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0750 |
Businessman Johan EliaschÌýon hisÌýnovel strategy for saving part of theÌýrainforest - by buying it. |
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0810 |
General Sir Mike Jackson, Chief of the General Staff at the MoD, on the military campaign in Iraq. |
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0821 |
Are we becoming too impatient? Entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou claims we belong to the "won't wait" age. Psychologist Oliver James disagrees. |
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0827 |
Sports update withÌýSteve May. |
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0832 |
Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen reports from Cairo on the hopes for political reform in Egypt. |
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0840 |
Business with Rebecca Marston. |
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0844 |
ShouldÌýwe give money to beggars? "Killing with kindness", a new campaign launched by Westminster City Council, claims not. John Baradell, Westminster's director of community protection, and Adam Sampson, director of Shelter, join us. |
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0850 |
Lord Levy is preparing to face a committee of MPs to explain his role in raising loans for the Labour party. Polly Billington reports on the enigmatic figure. |
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0854 |
If buying sections of theÌýAmazonÌý seems too colonial a solution, how else can we attempt to preserve it? We're joined by Graham Wynn of the RSPB and Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth. |
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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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