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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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The Competition Commission has just published what it calls its "emerging thinking" about the big supermarkets. We talk to the Commission's chairman Peter Freeman. |
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0712 |
The book that may have made Alexander Litvinenko a target is being published in Britain today. |
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0715 |
Business update with Greg Wood. |
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0719 |
Scottish minister Jack McConnell has been questioned in connection with theÌýcash for honours investigation. |
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The editor of Daily Mail,ÌýPaul Dacre says it is likely that his paper will back the Tories at the next election but he doesn't guarantee it. |
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The Culture Select Committee has been looking at the costs of the 2012 Olympics and who is going to pay for them. We speak to LordÌýCoe. |
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0732 |
Sports update with Garry Richardson. |
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0745 |
Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer and Cindy Barnett of the Magistrates Association discuss whether the the government is endangering justice in the courts by cost-cutting. |
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0748 |
TheÌýOscar nominationsÌýare to be announced today. |
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0750 |
The thought for the day with Elaine Storkey, Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall at Oxford. |
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Former Naval Officer, Lewis Page and Sir Alan West, former First Sea Lord, talk about today's launch of the world's most advanced naval destroyer. |
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Former head of Northern Foods, Lord Haskins and Andrew Simms, from the New Economics Foundation, discuss the relationship between producers and supermarkets. |
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0817 |
A solicitor Lee Hassell and Neville Oldham, a diver and salvage expert, talk about the looting from the wreckage from the Napoli ship on Branscombe beach. |
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Sports update with Garry Richardson. |
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0827 |
One of America's top nuclear scientists, Richard Garwin, is in London to give evidence to the Defence Select Committee about whether we should be replacing Trident. |
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0830 |
Business update with Greg Wood. |
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0836 |
Our reporter Mike Wooldridge brings us update on the latest bombings in Iraq. |
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0845 |
Milton Keynes celebrates its 40th birthday today. |
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Dr Vivienne Nathanson of the British Medical Association suggests possible uses for the heroin produced by the poppy harvest in Afghanistan. |
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Police have cordoned off Branscombe beach in Devon to stop further looting of cargo from the container ship Napoli. We talk to the coastguard officer Mark Rodderway and Anita Bokdal who claims she hasÌýseen her belongings looted from the beach. |
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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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