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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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Ministers are introducing a "gold standard" to try toÌýencourage improvement in schemes that offer companies and individuals a way of balancing pollution by makingÌýan environmentally-positive investment. |
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The OECD - has been questioning investigators from the Serious Fraud Office and Government officials over theÌýdecision to halt a corruption investigation into BAE systems. |
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Business News with Greg Wood. |
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The Committee on Standards in Public Life isÌýpublishing the findings of its inquiry into the Electoral Commission later today. |
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A government-commissioned report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers says that professionals from outside theÌýteaching profession should be allowed to become heads. We speak to John Dunford and Mick Brookes. |
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0730 |
Sports News with Steve May. |
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Tessa Jowell is due to announce details of theÌýnext 91Èȱ¬ licence fee settlement later today - and she's expected to confirm it will fall well short of what the 91Èȱ¬ sought. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Reverend Joel Edwards - General Director of the Evangelical Alliance. |
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Canoeists and sailors in the Lake District are protesting aboutÌýplans to charge them for taking to the water. The local national park authority is considering levying a fee on all boats. |
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We speak to Peter Mandelson who says that Britain has "a visceral anti-Europeanism" in itsÌýpolitical culture which the Labour Government has failed to confront. |
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A husband, whose wife died just before Christmas after three years in a persistent vegetative state, has criticised the courts for subjecting her to what amounted to aÌýclinical trial without the family's consent. |
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The apparentÌýracist bullying of Bollywood starlet Shilpa Shety in the Big Brother house has stirred a huge reaction. |
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Sports UpdateÌýwith Steve May. |
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Blur's lead singer Damon Albarn and the bass player with the The Clash, Paul Simonon are releasing an album called The Good, the Bad and the Queen, it is inspired by Peter Ackroyd's biography of London. We went and spoke to them to find out more. |
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Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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We speak to authorÌýDennis Avery who claims global warming is not caused by human beings. It's simply that the earth has 1500 year warming cycles. |
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Cabinet minister Peter Hain has described theÌýUS government as the "most right wing" in living memory. James Hardy reports. |
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With the price of the licence fee rising again, we talk to Richard D North who has written a book arguing that there is no need for the 91Èȱ¬ at all. We also speak to Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications. |
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We ask Dr Vivian Nathanson if there should be an ethics committee or something similar assembled to look at theÌýuse of Zolpidem on patients who are in a persistent vegetative state. |
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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.
(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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