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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.Ìý
0600 - 0630
0630 - 0700 |
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0709 |
The International community has come up with a plan to get money to the Palestinian people. |
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0717 |
How detailed should the screening be on embryos used in IVF treatment? |
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0722 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0725 |
We speak to Michael McGovern, ex partner of Naomi Bryant - who was murdered last year by a violent sex attacker who had been released on licence. We also talk to Martin Wargent, head of the Probation Boards Association. |
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0727 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0730 |
We ask Douglas Alexander, the new secretary of state, what his plans are. |
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0735 |
A look at the papers. |
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0737 |
A German cyclist, Heinz Stucke, who has been on the road since 1962 has been reunited with his bike after it was stolen within hours of arriving in the UK. We speak to him. |
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0745 |
Thought For The Day with John Bell of the Iona Community. |
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0750 |
Does the new 90 million pay deal agreed for senior doctors benefit the NHS? We speak to Professor James Buchan, from Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh, and Alistair Henderson, deputy director of NHS employers. |
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0810 |
ShouldÌýembryos that are used in IVF treatment be tested for genetic predisposition to medical conditions? We speak to Dr David King, the director of Human Genetics Alert, and Baroness Deech, the former chair of the HFEA. |
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0821 |
It is the final episode of The Apprentice tonight. Does business have to be as brutal as Sir Alan Sugar makes it? We speak to two successful entrepreneurs, John Caudwell and Adam Balon. |
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0827 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0838 |
The European Commission will set out its vision for the future ofÌýEurope today. Hear our report. |
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0840 |
We ask David Heathcote-Amory, the Conservative MP,Ìýand Urma Spaet,Ìýan Estonian foreign minister,Ìýwhat they think of theÌýEuropean Commission's vision for the future. Ìý |
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Twelve people have been arrested in a Metropolitan police operation to break up a gang suspected ofÌýtrafficking women for prostitution. |
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0846 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0852 |
An agreement was reached last night during talks at the United Nations to resume payments of foreign aid to the Palestinians. Hear our report. |
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0855 |
There are now fewer than a hundred open-air public swimming pools in the country - are they worth saving? We speak to Janet Smith, from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and Stephen Baddeley, the interim chief executive of Sport England. |
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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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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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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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