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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.Ìý
0600 - 0630
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The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog Mohammed El Baredi will give his verdict today on whetherÌýIran hasÌýcomplied with the UN security council and stopped enriching uranium. Mark Fitzpatrick is director of the international Institute of Strategic Studies Non proliferation programme. |
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Ask people what has had the greatest effect on society over the past half century and many will say it is the pill. How close are we to getting aÌýpill for men? Professor David Baird of Edinburgh UniversityÌýhas beenÌýinvolved in the research. |
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0720 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Rebecca Marston. |
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Prince Harry has launched his own charity in memory of his mother Diana. It will help children orphaned by Aids in Lesotho. |
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0727 |
The sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0730 |
There is still no agreement on what is known as the Doha Round of trade talks. The International Development Select Committee has attacked the European Union for trying to force poor countries into a deal that would damage their own interests. We speak to Peter Mandelson, the European Union Trade Commissioner. |
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0735 |
A piece of music byÌýElgar has just been completed more than seventy years after his death. Some years ago there were sketches and ideas found for a sixth march in his Pomp and circumstance series. The sixth has now been completed by the British composer Anthony Payne, who has been speaking to the programme about this latest project. |
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0745 |
Thought For The Day with Brian Draper. |
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0750 |
OneÌýout-of-town supermarket uses as much energy as 60 local greengrocers. At least that's according to Friends of the Earth. It wants people to shop locally and use farmer's markets on environmental grounds. Its supermarkets campaigner Sandra Bell ,and the director general of the British Retail Consortium Kevin Hawkins join us. |
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We are into the last week of campaigning for the local elections. It has not been a good week for the Labour Party at Westminster, but will this have an effect on how people vote next week? The Local Government Minister, David Milliband, has been on the campaign trail, and speaks to the programme. |
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Whatever happened to Esperanto, the european language that was invented over a hundred years ago? If you thought it had died a death then think again. The British Esperanto Congress takes place in Scarborough today. Helen FantonÌýis on the board of the congress and will read us a famous Shakespeare Soliloquy, andÌýDr Paul Gubbins is editor of the "British Esperantist". |
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0827 |
The sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0830 |
Depression, anxiety, and other forms ofÌýmental illness have taken over from unemployment as the greatest social problem facing Britain, according to the health economist, Richard Layard. |
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Health trusts across theÌýNHS are coming under enormous pressure from the government to balance their books by this time next year, even though the service is currently hundreds of millions of pounds in the red. Our health correspondent, Adam Brimelow, has been looking at one trust as it battles to restore financial viability. |
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0840 |
TheÌýbusiness update with Rebecca Marston. |
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0845 |
A rail company is withdrawing a modern fleet of trains on it's busiest routes because the letters on the information screens are too small to comply with disability regulations.ÌýRoger Ford is the technical editor of the magazine, Modern Railways. |
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How should the international community react to today's verdict on Iran's nuclear programme? Michael Gordon is a journalist with the New York Times and has written a book on the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Timothy Garton Ash is a historian and political writer. |
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Can hugging be an art? Two chinese artists are in Britain to stage what they say is social sculpture. It is a mass hug in Nottingham. They are called Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang. Helen Marshall is from the Digital Arts project which is hosting them. |
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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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