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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics wants the 91Èȱ¬ Office to do more to help Iraqi academics get refugee status here. We speak to Professor John Akker. |
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Research shows as a country we areÌýgood at coming up with new ideas but we don't seem to have the skills to make the most of them. We ask Sir Digby Jones how this can be changed. |
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Business News from Greg Wood. |
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An investigation by the health watchdog Healthcare Commission has revealed that people withÌýlearning disabilities at a care home in south London were sexually and physically abused. |
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Sports News from Steve May. |
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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is looking at whether the decision to drop theÌýinvestigation into BAE Systems constitutes a breach of its anti-bribery convention. |
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The head of Israel's Armed Forces General Dan Halutz has resigned. We speak to Jeremy Bowen. |
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We speak to Dr Roman Pyrzak , who ranÌýa fertility centre in New Orleans before the hurricane struck. He managed toÌýsave 1,400 embryos and now a woman has given birth using one of them. |
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Thought for the Day withÌýJonathan Bartley, Director of the thinktank Ekklesia. |
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Our reporter Mike Thomson speaks to Sebastian Faulks, who wrote about theÌýFirst World War in his novel "Birdsong". He also revisits the interviews he recorded with several WW1 veterans. |
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0810 |
Mohammed Ali turns 65 today. Although described by President Bush as a "man of peace", have we forgotten just how radical a figure he was? We speak to Gene Kilroy, former business manager of Mohammed Ali and Mike Marqusee. |
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Thinktank Demos saysÌýBritish science and technology will be sidelined by countries like China and India within ten years. |
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Sports News with Steve May. |
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There areÌýmore than 200,000 refugees in the region bordering Sudan, mainly displaced by the fighting in the Darfur region. We speak to Oxfam's head of operations in Chad, Van Howermeyen. |
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Business News with Greg Wood. |
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0836 |
IsÌýPresident Bush going green? We ask Roger Harabin. |
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The number of archaeological finds reported by the public has doubled in the past year. Among the items found are a Viking hoard of twenty silver bracelets and a rare Medieval enamelled buckle. |
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The Doomsday clock is ticking. But is the clock pointing at the right threat - or is climate change the bigger danger? |
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We speak to Professor David Edgerton who has written a book about the way old inventions are shaping the future. We are also joined by Ian Neild, a futurologist at BT's research laboratory. |
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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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