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0709 |
Most of us do not review our birthdays the next day to see how it went, but you do if you are the Queen. |
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0711 |
Nepal's King Gyanendra has re-imposed aÌýcurfew in Katmandu telling the security forces to shoot on sight. Yesterday he promised to hand power back to the people after more than two weeks of mass protests in the country. But opposition leaders say the concessions are not enough. |
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Unions are threatening strikes over Peugeot's decision this week to pull out of Britain. It will mean the loss of 2300 jobs in Ryton, near Coventry and most likely many thousands more in related industries. What does the decision say about car making in Britain? We speak to Sir Nick Scheele, who was president and chief operating office of Ford's global operations until 2005. |
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0725 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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Iraq's Shia groupÌýin parliament has chosen a new man for Prime minister. He is Jawad al-Maliki and his nomination will go before parliament today.Ìý If he is approved his new government will have to get to grips with the rapidly worsening sectarian tensions in the country. Dr Akif Khalil Al Allousi is a medical doctor in Baghdad. He iss a secular sunni, his wife is shia and his business partner is a kurd, and Dr Zuhair Al Nahar is the london representative for the same party as the man nominated to be Prime Minister. |
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During his visit to America yesterday, the president of China was heckled by a member of Falun Gong. Is the organisation more than a religioius order? Peter Jahaul runs the Falun Gong Association in this country, and Yiyi Lu is an associate fellow at Chatham House. |
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0745 |
Thought for the day with Elaine Storkey, President of the Christian Charity, Tearfund. |
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Sharon O'Dell, who runs the Lincolnshire ADHD Support Group, and Dr Harpreet Kohl, medical advisor for NHS Quality Improvement Scotland, discuss the controversial drug Ritalin, which is given to many hyperactive children. |
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Animal rights protesters will be out on the streets of Oxford again today, in a demonstration to mark World Laboratory Animals Day.Ìý The organisers are hoping that hundreds will turn out to oppose the University's plans for a new animal research laboratory. We speak to Jan Creamer, the chief exececutive of theÌýÌýNational Anti-vivisection Society. |
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0825 |
A look at yourÌýletters and emails from the past week. |
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0828 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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0833 |
For years concerns aboutÌýglobal warming bubbled away beneath the surface. Environmentalists got increasingly worried but politicians showed little interest. That has changed and it has now become a political issue. David Cameron has been campaigning heavily on the issue, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams told our programme earlier this month that climate change is a "moral issue", and now Gordon Brown has weighed into the debate. We have been speaking to the chancellor. |
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0838 |
One of the many crimes committed by Saddam Hussein was the way he punishedÌýthe Marsh Arabs by draining their wetlands, and destroyingÌýan extraordinary ecological treasure house. But it seems they have not been destroyed and there is an exhibition in Norfolk today of rare birds in the area.ÌýRichard Porter of Birdlife International is behind it. |
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Manchester United are the richest football club in Britain. And they have just received a lottery grant to help them fund yoga classes and fitness sessions for some of their employees. Sport England is the body that awarded the grant and their North West regional director is Stewart Kellett. |
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We have heard a lot this week about pay. GPs who earn a quarter of a million, 91Èȱ¬ presenters who earn three times that. As a nation we used to be very reserved about talking about our wealth. Has it all changed? Dr Philip Beresford compiles the Sunday Times Rich list - the latest will be published tomorrow - and Charles Mosley is general editor of Debretts. |
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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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