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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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Iraq's appeals court hasÌýupheld the sentence imposed on the former dictator Saddam Hussein. The sentence has to be carried out within 30 days. We speak to Dr Abdel Haz Alani, the co-ordinator of Saddam Hussein's legal team. |
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Our Guest Editor today isÌý Sir Clive Woodward.ÌýHe is keen to explore how we find and nurture sporting talent. We ask Dr Gary Russell, an American cognitive psychologist. |
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0722 |
Business News with Nick Cosgrove. |
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If you can't beat them, ask them to join us?Clive Woodward asked James Munro to look at the rights and wrongs of so-called "passports of convenience". |
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0727 |
Sports News with Steve May. |
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0730 |
Gerald Ford, the only unelected president in American history, has died. Justin Webb reports. |
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Clive Woodward wanted us to to look at what sort ofÌýsupport young athletes think would increase their chances of winning when the Olympics come to Britain in 2012. Polly Billington went to find out. |
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Thought for the Day with Rev Dr Giles Fraser - Vicar of Putney. |
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Clive Woodward, believesÌýchildren who are given access to good sports facilities - and training to make the best of those facilities - are likely to do better across the board. He asked the Olympic runner Katherine Merry to visit the Robert Clack school in Dagenham, where this seems to be the case. |
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We speak to David Johnson from the U.S Embassy about the death, this morning, of the former U.S president, Gerald Ford. |
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Labour MP Eric Joyce and Michael Moore, the Liberal Democrats foreign affairs spokesman, join us to talk about theÌýBritish led operations taking place in Basra. |
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You'd be wrong to think the theÌýbusiness calendar is organised around financial quarters and results days. Clive Woodward asked Alex - star of the Daily Telegraph's cartoon strip of the same name - to tell us why. |
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Sports Update with Steve May. |
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Each day this week we are discussing a law nominated by you for our Christmas Repeal. Today we are joined by Shami Chakrabati from Liberty and Labour MP Stephen Pound to talk about the legislation restricting demonstrations outside Parliament. |
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Business Update with Nick Cosgrove. |
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Clive Woodward wanted to find out if some athletes find it harder than others to meet the "out of competition"Ìýdrug testing rules so we are joined by Pete Gardner CEO of the British Athletes Commission and John Steele CEO of UK Sport. |
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Our Guest editor today, Clive Woodward, wanted us to look at whether boxing is a sport which should be encouraged in the UK. We ask Keith Walters chairman of the Amateur Boxing Association and Dr Vivien Nathanson who leads the British Medical Association's campaign to ban boxing. |
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James Naughtie asks our Guest Editor of the day, Sir Clive Woodward, whatÌýhe had wanted to hear on the programme and why. |
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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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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.
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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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