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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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0709. Four men who are subject to anti-terrorism control orders are on the run. We talk to the Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg.
0714. Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, talks about the arrests of several senior Hamas officials in overnight raids in West Bank.
0718. Business update with Greg Wood.
0721. Labour MP Clive Betts and Edmund Weiner, deputy chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, discuss the connotations of the word "McJob".
0726. Sports update with Steve May.
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0732. Environment minister, Ben Bradshaw looks at whether the government should introduce waste tax.
0743. How much sleep do we need? What happens if we do not get enough of it?
0749. The thought for the day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser.
0752. The information commissioner, Richard Thomas, is trying to draw up rules to prevent pointless and frivolous requests under the Freedom of Information Act. |
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0810. Chair of 91Èȱ¬ Affairs Select Committee, John Denham and Bob Milton, former commander in the Met, talk about the effectiveness of the anti-terrorism control orders.
0820. Novelist Zadie Smith travelled to Liberia earlier this year to see what progress was being made to improve the lives and the living standards of its people*.
0824. Sports update with Steve May*.
* AudioÌýunavailableÌý
0830 - 0900
0830. Friends of the Earth's Phil Michaels and James Fulton, who manages ACPO's Freedom of Information referral unit, discuss whether freedom of information laws should not be regarded as a threat.
0835. Professor Jim Horne of the Sleep Research Centre at Loughborough University gives us insight into how much sleep we should be getting.
0838. Business update with Greg Wood.
0842. Many foreign Jews volunteer for the national military service which is compulsory only for Israeli citizens.
0847. Former editor of Blue Peter, Biddy Baxter and Richard Deverell, controller of CBeebies and C91Èȱ¬, discuss whether children's programmes were better in the past.
0854. David Turner has released pictures of Adolf Hitler 'off-duty' taken by his father at the beginning the Second World War. |
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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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