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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
0709. Tony Blair wants Britain to have a new generation of nuclear power stations. We talk to the Industry Secretary Alistair Darling and Andrew Warren of the Association for the Conservation of Energy.
0719. Are fair trade products really "fair"? We speak to migrant workers, John Cridland of CBI and Martin Smith of GMB union.
0725. Business update with Greg Wood.
0727. Sports update with Steve may.
0730 - 0800
0734. Shadow Attorney General Dominic Grieve talks about the discontent among judges over the way the justice ministry has been set up.
0742. We talk to Philip Pritchard, one of the peace activist who has been found not guilty of conspiring to cause criminal damage when he broke into a RAF base the day before the Iraq invasion to try to disable B-52 bombers.
0745. Ray Tallis of Manchester University and Dr Peter Fisher of Royal London 91Èȱ¬opathic Hospital discuss the use of homeopathy within NHS.
0750. The thought for the day with the director of an International Consultancy in World Religions, Martin Palmer.
0753. Boris Berezovsky shares his views on why Moscow might not co-operate over an extradition request for Andrei Lugovoy. |
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0800 - 0830
0810. 91Èȱ¬ investigation has found that a leading supplier of fair trade fruit to Waitrose, Tesco and other leading supermarkets is exploiting migrant workers here in this country.
0822. Author and journalist Max Davidson debates whether Charles Dickens would like go to a theme park.
0827. Sports update with Steve May.
0830 - 0900
0834. Graham Robb of the Youth Justice Board believes that groups of youth involved in anti-social behaviour should not be described as a "gangs".
0838. Business update with Greg Wood.
0841. The city of Bath is a World Heritage Site - but for how much longer?
0850. Former 91Èȱ¬ correspondent in Moscow, Martin Sixsmith looks at what effect the Litvinenko affair is likely to have on relations between this country and Moscow?
0854. Former Labour party deputy communications chief, Lance Price and Quentin Letts of the Daily Mail discuss the embarrassment over the Government's plan for 91Èȱ¬ Information Packs. |
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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
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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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