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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600 - 0630
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0710 |
Leading Doctors warn patients are at risk due to the way junior doctors are trained and recruited. |
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0714 |
Canadian data company, Thomson, announces a multi-billion pound takeover of Reuters. |
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0719 |
UN coordinator for humanitarian affairs, John Holmes, says battles between Somali Ethiopian forces have cut off essential supplies to Somalia. |
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0721 |
The business news with Greg Wood. |
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0724 |
The discipline of celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church is challenged from the depths of rural France. |
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0728 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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0730 - 0800 |
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0730 |
President of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, has broken the bank's code of conduct by helping to arrange a pay increase for his girlfriend. |
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0744 |
Our reporter looks into the police dealing with the possession of extreme, violent pornography. |
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0748 |
A look at today's papers. |
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0752 |
The Joint Nature Conservation Committee advises the government that more than ninety per cent of the UK's vulnerable habitats are being destroyed. |
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0756 |
Thought for the Day with Rhidian Brook. |
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Police officers say they are are having to makeÌý"ludicrous" arrests for trivial incidents in order to keep up with Government targets. |
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A group representing 10,000 junior doctors will tomorrow challenge the current system for training and recruitment in the courts. We speak to Shadow Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley. |
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0820 |
We speak to Jarvis Cocker as the 14th curator of the annual music festival Meltdown at the Southbank Centre. |
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0825 |
Sports Update with Steve May. |
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0830 - 0900 |
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We speak to Hamas Minister, Wasfi Kabha, about the volatile situation in Gaza. |
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0835 |
Business update with Greg Wood. |
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0838 |
We look at tragic events, like the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, which bring the nation together. |
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0849 |
The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Moscow for talks with President Putin at a time of increasing tension between Washington and Moscow. |
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Why do are so many Politicians aspiring writers and novelists? We ask Ann Widdecombe and Iain Dale. |
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We discuss theÌýPope's first book as Pope; "Jesus of Nazareth". |
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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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