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Choose an audio clipÌýyou would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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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 |
As some British citizens remain stranded and scared at a Beirut port, Zena Elkhalil is amongst the firstÌýBritish evacuees to land on home soil. |
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0713 |
What's behind theÌý8% rise in street crime and how is it being tackled?ÌýRichard Garside of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and 91Èȱ¬ Office Minister for Crime Reduction Tony McNulty. |
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0721 |
Business Editor Robert Peston explains the government's delays onÌýRoyal Mail decisions. |
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0724 |
DoesÌýlistening to music improve your health? |
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0728 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0731 |
Will Bush's decision to use his first ever veto on a proposed increase in state funding of embryonicÌýstem cell research go down well with the voters? |
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0740 |
The animosity between Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo overshadows the Golf Open at Hoylake, where the two will have to tee off together later today. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser. |
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0750 |
As the UN High Commission warns that both Hezbollah and Israel may be guilty of war crimes we speak to Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Ìý |
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0810 |
Is building more prisons the way to "rebalance" the criminal justice system? Retired Judge GeraldButler QC, Former chief inspector of prisons Lord Ramsbotham and former 91Èȱ¬ Office Minister John Denham. |
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0818 |
TheÌýProkofiev opera you've probably never heard. |
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0822 |
Sports news with Steve May. |
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0825 |
Do theÌýLebanese blame Hezbollah for thr trouble with Israel?ÌýYahir Goldwasser isÌýbrother to one of the Israeli soldiers whose kidnapping started the current Middle East crisis. |
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0828 |
Business news from Rebecca Marston. |
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0835 |
President Bush's decision to veto an increase in state funds forÌýstem cell research seems to go against American public opinion, here it dismays scientists and cheers opponents. |
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0838 |
What are Mps for? Hilary Cottam of the Design Council and labour MP Kate Hoey. |
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0845 |
Be warned:ÌýStreetwars are coming to London. Franz Aliquo invented the citywide water pistol tournament. |
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When theÌýMiddle East crisis reaches the diplomatic stages, it's not only Israel and Lebanon that America will be interested in. Dr Claire Spencer, Head of Middle East programme at Chatham House and Chris Dickey, Middle East regional editor, Newsweek. |
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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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