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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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All eight Democratic contenders for the United States presidency haveÌýattacked President Bush's policy in Iraq. Justin Webb reports. |
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The charity Alcohol Concern says parents who give alcohol to under 15 year-olds - even with a meal at home - should face prosecution. We speak to Tim Loughton, Shadow Minister for children. |
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Business News with Greg Wood. |
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Iain Watson reports on why Scotland's politicians are so keen to enlist support from business. |
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Yesterday on the programme Julie Burchill upset some listeners with her comment about dyslexia. We are joined by the Chief Executive of the British Dyslexia Association Jennifer Owen Adams. |
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0730 |
Sports News with Garry Richardson. |
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Fairbridge a charity formed to deal with "challenging children" has given our reporter Jon Manel exclusive access to its work. In this - the first of two reports - he joins a course on guns and street violence. |
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Today's Papers. |
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British physicist Stephen Hawking has completed aÌýzero-gravity flight in a specially modified plane. He was able to float free, unrestricted by his paralysed muscles and his wheelchair. Our correspondent Andy Gallacher reports. |
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Thought for the Day with John Bell of the Iona Community. |
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The government has floated the idea of aÌýÌýrubbish tax - pay as you throw. The black bin bags you put out would be weighed and you'd pay accordingly. A good idea? |
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The charity Alcohol Concern thinks it should be against the law to letÌýchildren drink alcohol at home - even with a meal. We speak to a mother who does not agree and we ask Caroline Flint what the Government thinks. |
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Both Gordon Brown and David Cameron have praised Bobby Kennedy this week. We speak to Godfrey Hodgson who covered theÌýKennedy years as a correspondent and wrote an account of the 1968 campaign, in the course of which Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. |
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SportsÌýUpdate with Garry Richardson. |
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The SNP has produced a list of a 100 business people who are in favour of Scottish Independence. We speak to one of them, Sandy Orr, andÌýsomeone who is opposed, Michelle Mone. |
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Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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160,000 Palestinians live in Hebron - so do around 600 of the most hardline Jewish settlers. Those settlers have just staged one of their mostÌýambitious expansions for years. Tim Franks reports. |
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In Iran, there's a campaign underwayÌýagainst women who dress in an "un-Islamic" way. We speak to Dr Ali Ansari, Reader at St.Andrews University, Iran specialist. |
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It's not only a huge city like London that has such an extraordinaryÌýmelting pot of languages and accents. We speak to the eminent linguist Professor David Crystal who has just written a book about this called By Hook or by Crook. |
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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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