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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600 - 0630
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0709 |
Jonathan Fenby, a writer on China and a former editor of the South China Morning Post, talks to the programme about the Chinese President's trip to America. |
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0711 |
Michael Ancram, the former Shadow Foreign Secretary, has said that British troops in Iraq should come home now while they can with honour and dignity. |
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0714 |
The centre-left coalition led by Romani Prodi was officially declared the winner of Italy's election on Wednesday, but outgoing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi still hasn't acknowledged defeat. Rafaele Fantetti, was a london-based candidate for Forza Italia in the newly-created constituency for Italians living overseas. |
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0718 |
TheÌýbusiness newsÌýwith Rebecca Marston. |
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0722 |
One of the issues that inevitably comes up on the doorsteps during local election campaigns is how much voters are paying in council tax, and whether they are getting the services they want in return. TheÌýLiberal Democrats oppose the tax and think it should be replaced with a local income tax. But their opponents argue that they have been putting up the very taxes they want to abolish. |
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0726 |
TheÌýsports newsÌýwith Steve May. |
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0730 |
Doctors will be staging a protest outside the department of health today. They have come here from countries outside the European Union and the rules have changed, so instead of getting decent jobs in the NHS, they will have to go back. They say there are 15,000 of them in training in this country. One of the doctors, Dr Kishore Sajjanraj, and Lord Warner, the health minister, join the programme. |
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0740 |
Michael Ancram, the former Shadow Foreign Secretary,Ìýsays British troops should leave Iraq now because the country is, effectively, in a state of civil war. He joins the programme this morning. |
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0745 |
Scientists are going to sprinkle mustard on some fields in Leicestershire in order to irritate earthworms, who do not like it. Why? Well, because the worms will wriggle to the surface and then scientists can count them. And that will tell them how healthy the soil is. |
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0750 |
Thought for the day with Reverend Roy Jenkins, Baptist Minister in Cardiff. |
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The government has always said that the conservatives can not claim to be green because they opposed the climate change levy, the tax on energy use by business. But today, David Cameron will say why they oppose it and what they would replace it with. Peter Ainsworth is the shadow environment secretary. |
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0810 |
The Queen is 80 today. She is apparently in remarkably good health and determined to carry on being Queen. Is that what the nation wants? The polls suggest it is. By an overwhelming majority they show people think she's doing a good job and want her to keep doing it. We speak to a close friend of the Queen, Countess Mountbatten. |
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0825 |
Has your path ever been blocked byÌýa newÌýsupersize buggy? It used to be that parents wanted push-chairs to be small and light but lately the trend has been in the opposite direction. Jane Purcell is aÌýwriter and member of the Bad Mother's Club, and Eleanor Dalyrmple is theÌýEditor of the Mother and Baby Magazine. |
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TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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Is the world really getting warmer as a result of man's actions? It is a belief so widely accepted that you rarely hear dissenting voices. An Australian geologist, Professor Bob Carter, has written about his scepticism in the Sunday Telegraph. He joins the programme, along with Professor Phil Jones from the Director of the Climate Change Research Unit at University of East Anglia. |
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0838 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Rebecca Marston. |
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0840 |
We know a serious attempt was made to assassinate Adolph Hitler. The famous Stauffenberg plot almost succeeded in 1944.Ìý But the historian Roger Moorhouse, who has written a book on the subject, says there were many other attempts. |
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Building a massive barrage across theÌýSevern Estuary may be the solution to our energy crisis, say an increasing number of politicians in Wales and Westminster. The controversial scheme, which as the backing of some of Britain's biggest firms, would produce as much electricity as three nuclear power stations. But environmentalists say thatÌýit would destroy a unique and world-famous eco-system. |
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0845 |
British films are rare enough but a british film with a black female lead - hard to think of one. There isÌýone out today. It is called "Rollin with the Nines". And that lead role is not the usual sterotype of black women in film as victims and marginalised, but she is violent. Amina Taylor is a radio presenter and editor of Pride magazine, and Menhaj Huda is a film director. |
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The Queen is 80 today. William Shawcross, the Queen Mother's official biographer, and Sunder Katwala, head of the Fabian Society, discuss the future of the monarchy. |
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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)
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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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