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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600-0630
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Chairman of Greenwich, Bexley and Lewisham Chamber of Commerce,ÌýSteve Nelson and Alan Cavill from Blackpool Council discussÌýwhy a supercasino should be builtÌýin their area. |
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0714 |
Business update with Greg Wood. |
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0719 |
Four hunderd years ago, theÌýSevern tsunami struckÌýaround the Bristol area? |
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TheÌýBA strike was averted at the last minute but does that mean flying will be smooth today? |
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0732 |
Sports update with Garry Richardson. |
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0738 |
Our reporter Jon Manel looks at the role of the private sector in the NHS. |
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0745 |
TwoÌý16th century organs have survived the English Reformation and have now been reconstructed. |
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0748 |
The thought for the day with Elaine Storkey, Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. |
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0750 |
Chief executive of BAA,ÌýStephen Nelson talks about his company's plans for a second runway at Stansted. |
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0810 |
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor talks about the gay adoption issue. |
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0816 |
The former labour MPÌýAlice Mahon is taking legal action to force the NHS to pay for a new drug that could stop her from going blind. |
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0820 |
A new song cycle calledÌý"Ballads of the Book" is being performed at a concert in Glasgow tonight. |
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0823 |
Sports update with Garry Richardson. |
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0830 |
Chief executive of One Parent Families,ÌýChris Pond discusses whether single parents should come off benefits and look for work even before their children reach the age of sixteen. |
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0835 |
Business update with Greg Wood. |
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0839 |
Dr Hamish Meldrum of the BMA's GP committee talks about doctors' salaries. |
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0847 |
What effect will a supercasino have on the community? |
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Fishermen and campaigners are lobbying against the development of a fixed link - a causeway - joining the islands of the Outer Hebrides. |
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A ceasefire has begun in theÌýGaza Strip after several days of fierce fighting between the two main Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah. |
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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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