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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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0709 |
The election is underway in Italy. The polls closed last evening and opened again in the morning. It is a close contest between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and the former President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi. |
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0714 |
The Prime Minister's Human Rights envoyÌýAnn Clwyd has raised concerns about the system of detention in Iraq. |
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0717 |
The business news with Greg Wood. |
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0721 |
Mass protests are planned across the United States today to demand that Congress passes a law that would legalise most of the 11 and a half million illegal workers in the United States. TheÌýRepublican Congressman Tom Tancredo is one of the most outspoken advocates of strictly enforced immigration laws in Congress. |
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Another inquest begins today into the death of anotherÌýyoung British man killed by Israeli soldiers in a refugee camp in Gaza. It will look into the death ofÌýTom Hurndall, who was 22 and had gone to Gaza to protest against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. His father Anthony Hurndall joins us. |
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0726 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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The Association of Teachers and Lecturers is beginning its conference,Ìýand it will be debating, among other things, faith schools. Mary Bousted is the ATL's general secretary and we are also joined by Cannon John Hall, the chief education officer for the Church of England. |
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The European Union gives about £400m a year to the Palestinian Authority but is now cancelling the cheque because it doesn't approve of Hamas running the authority.ÌýChris Davies is the leader of the liberal democrats in the European parliament and he's in Ramallah this morning waiting to meet Hamas leaders. |
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To mark theÌýQueen's 80th birthday later this month Buckingham Palace has published 80 facts about her. |
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0751 |
Thought for the day with the Reverend Rosemary Laine-Priestley. |
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The number ofÌýrapists given a caution has risen sharply in recent years, according to home office figures. The home office has defended the practice - it says it only happens in a minority of cases. Nick Clegg is the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, and Ruth Hall is the spokesperson for Women Against Rape. |
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0810 |
President Bush is making plans for a military attack on Iran. That's what the respected New Yorker magazine reports in this month's edition. The report has been written by Seymour Hersh, who has a record going back nearly forty years of breaking stories at the top level of American politics. He speaks to the programme this morning about his claim. |
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0825 |
There is a work of revisionist history out which is raising Churchillian hackles - it's called "blood Sweat and arrogance - and the myths of Churchill's War". We are joined by the author of the book, Gordon Corrigan, and the historian, Andrew Roberts. |
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0827 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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On this day twenty five years ago, Brixton in London erupted. TheÌýBrixton riots took place against a background of acute racial tension. Linda Bellos, leader of Lambeth Council later in the 1980s, speaks to the programme along with playwright and actor Kwame Kwei Armah. |
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Have you ever heard of "freakonomics"? Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner have written a book about it. |
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0844 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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Figures from the 91Èȱ¬ Office suggest that 40Ìýrapists were given a caution instead of a prison sentence in 2004.Ìý The number is double the figure ten years earlier. Rory Maclean is our home affairs correspondent, and has been looking into this. |
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David Cameron's honeymoon period as Tory leader seems to be over. The Chief political correspondent for the Observer, Gaby Hinsliff, and Michael Portillo, one-time contender for the leadership himself, talk about David Cameron's drive for change in his party. |
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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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