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Choose an audio clipÌýyou would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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Edward Stourton is at the ceremonies remembering the Battle of the Somme. |
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0712 |
Tony Blair is making a big speech at his party's national policy forum today.ÌýÌýJohn talksÌýto our political correspondent, Norman Smith, about it. |
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0718 |
A look at today's papers. |
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0722 |
From today the number of health authorities and ambulance trusts in England is being cut in half. Debbie Abrahams, who chairs the Rochdale NHS TrustÌý but has announced that she's resigning because she doesn't approve of all these reforms. |
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0724 |
Polly Billington explains how you can get the stories that interest you the most on the Today programme this summer. |
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0737 |
TheÌýSports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0734 |
Mike Thomson tells the story of what happened at the Battle of the Somme And we talk to Lance Corporal Ben Jones-Newton has a great-great uncle listed among the seventy thousand who served in the Somme. |
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0744 |
Our correspondent, Jane Peel, is in Gelsenkirchen, ahead of today's England versus Portugal World Cup football match.
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0748 |
Thought for the Day with Reverend Rob Marshall, an Anglican Priest. |
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0750 |
We talkÌýto Colonel John Hughes Wilson, who is president of the guild of battlefield guides, and Air Marshall David Pocock, who describe what this scene would have looked like as the British lines prepared to go over the top at the Somme. |
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0810 |
What exactly is the humanitarian situation in Gaza? Alan Jonston reports from there? And we talk to the EU External Affairs Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner. |
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0820 |
A look at your Letters. |
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0825 |
Dr Oliver James, a clinical psychologist, talks to us about why we've had so many pictures of dogs sent to us.Ìý Dog Gallery. |
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0835 |
The Sports News with Garry Richardson |
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0842 |
Trudi Barber reports on the new reforms in the NHS and John Humphrys talks to Patricia Hewitt about it all. |
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0845 |
Europride - Europe's largest gay and lesbian festival is in London today. Last Saturday the Environment minister Ben Bradshaw became the first MP to register under the new act of forming a civil partnership. These are his thoughts. |
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Edward Stourton is at the commemorations of theÌýBattle of the Somme and he talks to Jean Verbel, who atÌý83 his childhood was dominated by his family's memories of the battle, and to Colonel Hugh Boscawen, part of the job is to see what lessons army can learn from the past. AndÌýwe end with the voice that closed the ceremonyÌýin Somme,Ìýit belongs toÌý Rachel Wilbur, who in ten years old.Ìý |
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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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