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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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0709 Local laws in Portugal are preventing officers from making public even basic details of the investigation into the disappearance of three year old Madeline McCann. Steve Kingstone reports.Ìý
0712 Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness will start work today as first minister and deputy in Northern Ireland: a combination that once seemed impossible. We are joined from Northern Ireland by Ian Paisley Junior.
0715 Business News with Greg Wood.
0718 BAE systems has bought an American defence company for more than £2 billion. But the company may still be troubled by unhappiness in Washington at the winding-up of the Serious Fraud office inquiry into its contacts with Saudi Arabia.
0720 Research shows all modern humans are descended from a small band of settlers who left the African plains about 70 thousand years ago. We speak to Dr Toomas Kivisild who helped carry out this research.
0725 Sports News with Steve May
0730 - 0800
0730 Despite elections last year and the efforts of 17,000 UN peacekeeping troops the killing hasn't stopped in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Correspondent Mike Thomson reports.
0735 Today's Papers.
0743 The Heritage Lottery Fund has granted £2 million to restore and reveal the hidden histories of the home of Winnie the Pooh - the Weald Forest Ridge in East Sussex. John Andrew reports.
0745 Thought for the Day with writer Rhidian Brook.
0750 We speak to Kerry Needham whose son Ben was 21months old when he disappeared on the island of Kos where he was staying with his family.Sixteen years have passed - Ben has never been found. |
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0810 There is no doubt that something genuinely historic will happen today in Belfast: Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness will become First and Deputy First Ministers of the province. We are joined by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Peter Hain.
0825 Sports Update with Steve May.
0830 - 0900
0830 In Wales Labour failed to win enough seats at the election to form a government. Now it must rely on support from rivals to stay in power. We speak to Rhodri Morgan, Labour leader in Wales.
0835 Business Update with Greg Wood.
0840 The Times newspaper reports this morning that the Prime Minister has vetoed a package of measures put forward by Lord Falconer, aimed at staving off a prison overcrowding crisis later this summer.
0845ÌýThere's still no news of three year old Madeleine McCann despite her mother's emotional appeal yesterday to whoever is holding her not to hurt her. Steve Kingstone reports from Portugal.
0850ÌýDespite the grand ceremony that will take place today what about the people who will be watching from the streets of Belfast? In communities wracked by violence and distrust, are they hopeful?
0855 The former Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Weatherill, has died at the age of 86. We speak to Lord Hunt and Nick Jones. |
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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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