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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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0709 |
The latest on the Iranian fifteen. |
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0712 |
The NUT are concerned by the early sexualisation of children. |
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0715 |
OrthopaedicÌýsurgeons areÌýchallenging the practice of sending their equipment away to be sterilised. |
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0718 |
The clergyman who wants toÌýban children from his goryÌýGood Friday service. |
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0723 |
For the second night in a row, there's been violence at a European game involving English football fans. |
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0725 |
Sports news from Garry Richardson. |
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0730 |
Prof Sir Magdi Yacoub lead the team who have grown part of a human heart, he gives us his first interview. |
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0733 |
A review of today's papers. |
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0737 |
Climate change is effectingÌýChina more than any other country. |
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0740 |
Thought for the Day with The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams. |
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0744 |
91Èȱ¬ Secretary John Reid defends a new law; the violent crime reduction act. |
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0810 |
Now theÌýIranian fifteen are safely back on British soil there are serious questions to be answered. Admiral Sir Jonathan Band is the First Sea Lord. |
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0820 |
If the size of Tolstoy'sÌýWar and Peace has ever put you off.... you've no more excuses. |
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0825 |
Sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0820 |
Our Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin has beenÌýshown working copies of the now delayed but highly influentialÌýreport by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. |
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0828 |
Business news with Nick Cosgrove. |
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0833 |
It's been nine years since theÌýGood Friday Agreement and only now have Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams managed to agree to form aÌý Government together, Martin McGuiness will be a leading member of that Government. |
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0840 |
Are we any closer to understanding whether or not Britain has been humiliated by Iran? |
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0845 |
Recent stories, both tragic and joyous, have been characterised by a focus upon the involvement of female soldiers. Feminist broadcaster Bea Campbell and former war correspondent Kate Adie. |
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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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