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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600 - 0630
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0700 - 0730
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0710 |
Prince Harry is no longer going to serve in Iraq. What changed the Army's mind? |
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0715 |
Now Gordon Brown will become PM and Labour leader at the end of next month without challenge the race for the deputy leadership is hotting up. |
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0720 |
The business news with Greg Wood. |
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0723 |
The Food Standards Agency is expected today to recommend the mandatory addition of folic acid to bread. |
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0725 |
AlgeriansÌývoteÌýtoday for a lower House of Parliament - the third time since the end of a civil war that began after a general election was cancelled in 1992. |
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0728 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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0730-0800 |
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0730 |
Conservative MP Andrew TyrieÌýcalls for more clarity overÌýbank charges. |
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0734 |
A look at today's papers. |
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0740 |
A new film puts one of the most infamous unsolved serial killings back in the spotlight - the Zodiac killer of San Francisco. |
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0745 |
Thought for the day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser, ÌýVicar of Putney |
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0750 |
We speak to Major General William Caldwell, the main spokesman for the multinational forces in Iraq, about the decision not to deploy Prince Harry there. |
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Ìý0800 - 0830
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0810 |
The Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling talks to us about public consultations and post office closures. |
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0820 |
Is arresting a 13 year old for stealing 49p worth of sweets unnecessary criminalisation? |
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0825 |
The 91Èȱ¬'s Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston has been missing for more than nine weeks now. It's his 45th birthday today and we hear a tribute from the novelist AS Byatt. |
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0828 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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0830-0900 |
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We speak to Romeo Dallaire, the General in charge of the Rwanda UN Peacekeeping mission during the genocide in 1994, about powerlessness in the face of overwhelming violence. |
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0835 |
Greg Wood with a business update. |
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0840 |
John Bolton, one of the more controversial figures of Bush's administration, talks to us about American foreign policy for the remainder of the Bush presidency and the Bush-Brown relationship. |
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0845 |
Angela Knight, Chief Executive of the British Bankers' Association, responds to Andrew Tyrie MP's call for laws toÌýmake it easier to compare bank's charges. |
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A book on email etiquette is a new bestseller in the United States. We speak to author Will Schwalbe and Lucy KellawayÌýfrom the Financial Times.
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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)
Part 1
Part 2 |
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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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