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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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A joint report from the inspectorates of Constabulary and the Crown Prosecution Service has raised serious concerns about the level of convictions in rape cases. |
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Up to 200,000 civil servants are expected to go on strike today. |
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0719 |
Business update with Greg Wood. |
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Many councils are struggling to cope with an influx of foreign workers and it has led to tensions with local people. We talk to the chair of the Audit Commission Michael O'Higgins. |
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0732 |
Sports update with Steve May. |
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0738 |
Our reporter Jon Manel looks at the efficiency of Primary Care Trusts as a part of hisÌýNHS reports series. |
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0742 |
There have beenÌýarrests under the Terrorism Act in the West Midlands. |
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0745 |
Researcher Sam Heathcote of Bath University says we could be a step closer to an aircraft the size of a bee. |
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0748 |
The thought for the day with Jonathan Bartley, Director of the think tank Ekklesia. |
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Director general of the CBI,ÌýSir Digby Jones and professor Alison Wolf from King's College London discuss how the Chancellor could achieve making teenagers stay at school until the age of eighteen. |
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We talk to the Deputy Assistant Commissioner at the Metropolitan Police, John Yates, and a rape victim about the report into the level of convictions in rape cases. |
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0816 |
Prime minister's chief fundraiser Lord Levy has been rearrested by police investigating the cash for honours affair on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. |
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0823 |
Chinese conductor, Xian Zhang and James Inverne, the editor of Gramaphone magazine, discuss the future of classical music in China. |
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0835 |
Sports update with Steve May. |
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0839 |
Liberal Democrat health spokesman,ÌýNorman Lamb gives his suggestions on how to improve the health service. |
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0847 |
Business update with Greg Wood. |
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0850 |
Professor of English Literature and an author,ÌýRon Henson and a reviewer Alexander Linklater talk about the new novel dealing with Hitler's youth. |
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Former US advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski has suggested that there is a risk of a possible conflict in Iran. We discuss the issue with historian Philip Bobbitt and Dr Ali Ansari from the Institute of Iranian Studies at St Andrews University. |
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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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