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Today's Briefing Hour: Catch up on the days news, sport and business.
0600-0630
0630-0700
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A judge has criticised the decision to prosecute a ten year old boy forÌýcalling another boy racist names. The District judge at Salford Youth Court, Jonathan Finestein, said it was "political correctness gone mad."ÌýChris Keates is General Secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters. |
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President Bush could be in big trouble over allegations being made in a court case in the United States. Lewis Libby, who had a senior job at the White House, is accused of obstructing justice and lying to investigators over a leak to journalists about the identity of a CIA agent. |
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A nurse has been stabbed to death in a park behind a hospital in Essex. The murder has again raised the question of safety for nurses. Janet Davies is Executive Director of the Royal College of Nursing. |
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0721 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Rebecca Marston. |
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How significant is the one confirmed case of bird flu found in Fife? Could it just be a one-off or will it prove to be part of a wider outbreak? Government experts will have to work out how the dead swan was infected in the first place to give them clues about what they are dealing with.ÌýOur reporter Jon Manel has been looking at the theories.Ìý |
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TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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This weekend it will be three years since so-called "freedom day" - the day Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled in Baghdad and his dictatorshipÌý came to an end. Zalmay Khalilzad, the US Ambassador in Iraq, has been talking to the programme. |
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Dozens of people have started queuing up to buy revamped Victorian terraced houses in Salford. They are being dubbedÌý"upside down houses" as the bedrooms will be on the ground floor and living areas upstairs. |
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Thought for the day with Dr Alan Billings,Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University. |
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The Conservative party chairman Francis Maude will open the party's spring conference in Manchester today with a warning that it could take years to reverse the party's fortunes. He speaks to us this morning. |
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It has been confirmed that the dead swan which was discovered in Scotland, was carrying the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. The government says that we don't need to worry because everything is in hand. But there is still a lot that we don't know about the virus. Sir David King is the government's chief scientist. |
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Noel Edmunds claims that he has got what he wanted in life because of something called cosmic ordering.ÌýA book about it is currently top of Amazon's chart. The Daily Mail's astrologer, Jonathan Cainer, and Richard Wiseman, a professor of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, join the programme.Ìý
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AÌýsports update with Garry Richardson. |
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Two young sisters have been taken away from their biological mother and handed over to her former lesbian partner on the orders of the Appeal Court. We speak to the columnist Anne Atkins, and Barbara Simpson, a District judge in the family court. |
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AÌýbusiness update with Rebecca Marston. |
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There is aÌýcritical shortage of doctors and nurses in the world's poorest countries according to the world health organisation, and it is up to the rich countries to do something about it.Ìý But what and how? Professor Suleiman Ahmed Guled is the president of Armoud University in Somaliland, and Gloria Likupe is one of the many nurses who have left their home country to come and work in the UK. |
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The three and a half million Italians who live outside Italy will, for the first time, be able to vote inÌýItaly's General Election on Sunday.ÌýTheir choice of candidates are all expats themselves. Among them Raffaele Fantetti who lives in London but if successful will travel to Rome for half the week. |
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What do the reactions toÌýbird flu tell us about our understanding of risk and the media's approach to covering it? Dr Brendan Burchill, a senior lecturer in social and political sciences at Cambridge University, and the columnist, Simon Jenkins, discuss the issue. |
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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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