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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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Leading paediatricians and child vaccination experts are calling for a line to be drawn under theÌýcontroversy over the MMR vaccine and autism before further lives are lost. |
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0717 |
The former 91Èȱ¬ Secretary, Charles Clarke, has been causing a stir in his first interviews since he was sacked from the government. |
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0720 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0723 |
The whole of Germany appears to be united behind their World Cup team. What about Germany's minority communities? Jon Manel has been speaking to the Turkish community in Berlin.
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0725 |
Gary Richardson brings us the latest on the tennis, and other , from Wimbledon. |
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0730 |
Should the display and sale ofÌýlads mags be better regulated? Labour MP, Claire Curtis-thomas, thinks so. |
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0740 |
Descendants of soldiers who fought in the Somme will set off on a march along the British front line today to mark the 90th anniversary of the battle. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Oliver McTernan, the Director of the NGO Forward Thinking
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Will theÌýIraqi government's amnesty offer to insurgents work? We speak to Condoleezza Rice's new senior adviser on Iraq, Ambassador David Satterfield. |
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0810 |
Charles Clarke has told the Times today that the Prime Minister needs to recover his "reforming style". We speak to Jim Knight, the Education Minister. |
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0820 |
A British soldier has been killed in Afghanistan - the second to die since the deployment of troops to Helmand province in the south of the country. |
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0825 |
According to the American feminist Ariel Levy,Ìýwomen today are "getting breast implants and wearing the Bunny logo as symbols of their liberation". |
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0827 |
TheÌý with Gary Richardson. |
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0830 |
TheÌýmiscalculation of migration figures is putting so much pressure on the local council in Slough that vital services are being threatened. |
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0840 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood. |
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0845 |
The Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is in Europe at the moment. How do the Australians view the international security situation in Iraq and Iran? |
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America has a tradition ofÌýphilanthropy that is quite distinct. Should we encourage the same attitude here in the UK? |
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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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