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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is giving employers advice on how to help employees give up smoking. We speak to the Chief Executive Andrew Dillon. |
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There is considerableÌý internationalÌýconcern about Somalia and its potential to destabilise the Horn of Africa. Adam Mynott reports. |
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Business News with Greg Wood. |
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We speak to Lord Lofthouse who is presenting aÌýscathing report to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor about the conduct of solicitors who've been handling claims by miners. |
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Sports News with Steve May. |
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The 91Èȱ¬ has unearthed recordings of phone calls made by Robert Maxwell, including one made on the day before he died. Zubeida Malik talks John PoleÌýwho was asked by Robert Maxwell to make them. |
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Today's Papers. |
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The Press Complaints Commission says theÌýnumber of complaints it received rose noticeably last year. We are joined by it's Chairman Sir Christopher Meyer. |
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Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue. |
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TheÌýIranian Olympics team has been invited by the US to train in Chicago ahead of next year's games in Beijing. Mihir Bose reports. |
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Peter Clarke, head of anti-terrorism at Scotland Yard, last night criticized those whoÌýundermine sensitive operations by leaking information. We speak to Sir Paul Lever, former Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, and Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, Nick Clegg. |
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A group of banks led by RBS says it is interested in buying Dutch lender ABN Amro for £49bn, trumping Barclays. |
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The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, is now onto its third coroner. Now there are doubts whether proceedings under theÌýnew coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker will be able to get underway as planned in October. |
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Sports Update with Steve May. |
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Last year the Democratic Republic of Congo heldÌýlandmark elections after years of civil war. Britain was the largest bilateral contributor to the elections but has it been worth it? |
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Today Senator John McCain is he formallyÌýlaunching his campaign for the Republican nomination, after a few months in which he's been losing ground to his rivals. Justin Webb explains. |
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Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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George Orwell said that he wanted to turn political writing into an art. Two awards in his name have just been announced and we speak to one of the winners Peter Hennessy. |
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We speak to Dr Richard Fuller a biologist at the University of Sheffield who has been carrying out research which has solved the puzzle of why urban robins like to sing at night. |
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World leaders including Bill Clinton, George Bush Senior and John Major have arrived in Moscow for the funeral this morning of the former president Boris Yeltsin. James Rodgers reports. |
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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.
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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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