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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business.ÌýÌý
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"Maybe that was a mistake". That's whatÌýTony Blair said when he was talking to a reporter in Australia about his announcement 18 months ago that he wouldÌýpack it in at the end of this parliament and not run for another term as prime minister. |
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Israel goes to the polls tomorrow - and later today the Palestinian parliament is expected to approve its government line up put forward by the militant group Hamas. |
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0719 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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Ann Marie Rogers, the woman with early stage breast cancer who wants her local health trust to pay for the potentially life-saving drug Herceptin, is taking her case to the appeal court today. Last month the High Court backed Swindon primary care trust's refusal to fund the treatment for Ms Rogers. But the question of drug funding is not restricted to Herceptin. Dr Martyn Wake is joint Medical Director of Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust. |
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0727 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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Elderly patients in hospitalsÌýin this country are being neglected, marginalised and treated as second class citizens. That's the picture painted by three different reports by three independent watchdogs published today. We have been speaking to Anna Walker, Chief Executive of the Healthcare Commission, and Liam Byrne, the Care Services Minister. |
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There are still many people in this country fighting to clear the names of their relatives who were executed for cowardice during the first world war. And they will be watching very closely today to see what happens in the High Court in the case of Harry Farr. He was shot at dawn in 1916. John Dickinson is the lawyer representing his family. |
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Thought for the Day with the Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool. |
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Today the government unveils its plans for further reform of further education. We are joined by the minister responsible for further and higher education, Bill Rammell. |
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The government is having another go at reforming the House of Lords. We talk to Kenneth Clarke, who is in charge of the Conservative Party's democracy task force, and the Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer. |
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0821 |
Blue Peter BadgesÌýare up for sale on ebay allowing those who are willing to shell out enough cash free entry.ÌýJanet Ellis was a Blue Peter presenters in the 80's.
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The sports news with Steve May. |
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In Israel, Ehud Olmert's Kadima party may be comfortably leading in the polls ahead of voting on Tuesday, but the former mayor of Jerusalem is not the leading political figure in the election campaign. That person has been lying in a coma in a Jerusalem hospital since suffering a massive stroke on January 4th. The influence of Ariel Sharon is still immense. |
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0840 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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Twelve years ago a million people were killed in Rwanda in systematic massacres of Tutsi people by the majority Hutu. Today a film based on the events of April 1994 has its world premier in the Rwandan capital Kigali. 'Shooting Dogs' is already causing controversy because of its claims to be an "authentic recreation" of what happened in a particular school, and partly because of it portrayal of journalists in reporting the story. |
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Channel 4 is beginning a series of documentaries looking at care for older people. Tonight features the actor and TV presenterÌýTony Robinson and his 89-year-old mother who suffers from dementia and lives in a care home. He talks to the programme this morning. |
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Does money help you get a seat in the House of Commons? We speak to former Labour MP, Peter Bradley, and Tory MP Mark Pritchard. |
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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
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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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