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It promised to be quite a scandal:Ìýillegal immigrants discovered working at a building used by immigration officers. The 91Èȱ¬ Secretary has said the people had only just started working when they were arrested, which proved the system worked, but now it turns out it may not have been quite that simple. |
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Will theÌýamalgamation of police forces in England be postponed? As well as the arrival of a new 91Èȱ¬ Secretary, there is an opinion survey suggesting public opposition in a number of the areas affected. |
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The events of Yesterday in Parliament. |
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A Liberal Democrat MEP, Sajjad Karim, is going to Pakistan to try to stop theÌýexecution of a man with joint British-Pakistani nationality who has been fighting against his sentence for nearly twenty years. |
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TheÌýsports news with Gary Richardson. |
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A recent report from the Government's Social Exclusion Unit calculated that as many as three quarters of a million sixteen to twenty five year olds are not in work, training, or education. The new Cabinet minister for social exclusion is Hilary Armstrong. |
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Forty three thousand pounds is an extraordinary sum for any state school PTA to raise, though it does help if you have rich and famous people in your catchment area. One school in North London made this in just one night on Thursday in anÌý"auction of promises" for parents and their friends. |
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Thought for the day with Brian Draper, lecturer at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. |
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Iraq will finally get a new government this week. General Rob Fry, the most senior British commander in Iraq, and Dr Akif Khalil Al Allousi, a doctor in a Baghdad hospital, talk about the current situation in Iraq. |
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The Attorney General is supporting the General Medical council in an appeal against a court ruling that expert witnesses should be immune from disciplinary action.ÌýLord Goldsmith joins the programme this morning. |
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The former American vice president Al Gore could turn out to be the star turn at this year's Cannes Film Festival. He appears in a documentary called "An Inconvenient Truth" in which he outlines his fears about global warming. |
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0822 |
A look at yourÌýletters and emails from the past week. |
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TheÌýsports newsÌýwith Gary Richardson. |
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The 91Èȱ¬ Office faces claims that fiveÌýillegal immigrants had cleaned immigration service offices for years. Phil Rees, who made a documentary on the 'secret life of the office cleaner', the shadow Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, and Jack Dromey, Deputy General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, join the programme. |
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The International Centre for sport History and Culture are having a conference today on that greatest of rivalries - England versus Germany. Prof Tony Mason is Prof of History there and joins us along with the diehard football fan and writer Hunter Davies. And both were at Wembley in 1966. |
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We have been hearing a lot about theÌýwater shortageÌýthis week. The ancientÌý Romans had no problem with their water supply and they were slightly less technically advanced than we are. Dr Peter Jones is a classicist and Adam Hart-Davis is an historian. |
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Johnny Cash once said "There is no one, and I mean no one, who has covered as many miles, sung as many songs, and made as many friends as Ramblin' Jack Elliott." We speak to Jack on the programme this morning. |
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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)
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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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