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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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The board of the World Bank considers today whether or not to continue to support the bank's president Paul Wolfowitz. |
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Our Business Editor Robert Peston explains why Sainsburys and Boots have plotted opposing courses through the private equity storm. |
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0719 |
Business News with Greg Wood. |
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0721 |
A survey by the Healthcare Commission of 80,000 people shows that patients are more concerned about being treated with dignity, having confidence in staff, getting clear answers to their questions and having clean hospitals. |
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Records containing the details of hundreds of families sent to the Victorian workhouse will be available online from today. Bob Walker reports. |
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Sports News with Steve May. |
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The German government hopes to take a step today towards a reworked European Union constitution to have approved next month. Jonny Dymond reports. |
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0744 |
Today's Papers. |
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0748 |
The 60th Cannes Film Festival opens today with 22 films from 14 countries competing for the top prize. Rebecca Jones reports. |
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Thought for the Day with Professor Mona Siddiqui. |
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In a speech today the Conservative's Education Spokesman David Willetts will claim that grammar schools no longer benefit poorer children and instead "entrench advantage". We speak to David Willetts and Lord Blackwell. |
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The target culture is a phenomenon of our times. We reported the irritation among some police officers that the need to meet targets for arrests meant that many children and young people were being criminalised unnecessarily. Polly Billington speaks to a familyÌýabout their experience. We also speak to the Children's commissioner for England, Sir Al Aynsley-Green who is announcing a plan today to try to improve children's lives. |
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The government hopes a new list of recommended books will help encourage teenage boys to read, and today all secondary schools are being offered 20 free books from the list for their libraries. |
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Sports Update with Steve May. |
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The violence in Gaza is continuing. At least 19 people have been killed in just three days of the deadliest factional fighting in months between Hamas and Fatah. We speak to Mona el-Farra, a doctor working at a refugee camp hospital. |
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Nicholas Sarkozy will be inaugurated as president of France later this morning, succeeding Jacques Chirac. Caroline Wyatt reports. |
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Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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We'll hear tomorrow how many of the Labour deputy leadership candidates have got enough nominations to go through to the contest proper. We speak to Paul Kenny, General Secretary of the GMB. |
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Gordon Brown is floating the idea of a bill of rights, or even a written constitution, and it's thought he may establish a constitutional convention to think about one. |
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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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