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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600 - 0630
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0709: Britain's cancer survival rates are being hampered by restricted access to new drugs. Dr Nils Wilking and Prof. Karol Sikora.
0715: Labour's first health secretary Frank Dobson ruminates over the greatest regrets of Tony Blair's premiership.
0719: How did Britain's biggest enquiry into internet child pornography lead to the arrest ofÌýsome entirely innocent people. Simon Cox.
0722: Are the overseers of the Water Industry too soft? Business news with Greg Wood.Ìý
0725: Tony Blair's resignation announcement is perfect fodder for satirists such as the Dead Ringers team.
0728: Sports news with Garry Richardson.
0730 - 0800
0733: A look at Tony Blair's ten years in office via his Today Programme interviews.
0740: A look at today's newpapers.
0743: William Dalrymple looks at India's 'First War of Independance' on this it's 150th anniversary.
0747: Thought for the Day withThe Reverend Angela Tilby.
0750: Almost one in five patients are still being treated in mixed sex wards, Professor Christine Beasley is Chief Nursing Officer.
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0800 - 0830Ìý
0810: AsÌýTony Blair begins his resignation, former Labour leader Neil Kinnock takes a good look at the past ten years.
0820: The annual Daphne Du Maurier Festival also celebrates the centenary of her birth. Her daughter Lady Montgomery reads from Rebecca, and Sir Christopher Frayling who wrote the preface to a new companion to her work and the director Nicholas Roeg who adapted 'Don't Look Now'.
0829: Sports news with Garry Richardson.
0830 - 0900
0832: Despite successful elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, government and rebel soldiers continue to kill, rob and rape civilians without judicial retribution. Mike Thomson continues his series of reports from the region.
0837: London's cabbies are reporting a slow down in trade, Greg Wood has the business news.
0840: A second snippet from the Dead Ringer's team.
0853: Former Labour MP, cabinet minister, leadership contender and current Blair critic Tony Benn looks at the Blair legacy with Blair strategist Philip Gould. |
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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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