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Choose an audio clip听you would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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0607 |
We hear today whether a turkey farm in France has been infected with the H5N1 birdflu virus. |
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0610 |
Hosepipe bans in April, as the showers fall? It's possible in south-east England according to the Environment Agency. |
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0614 |
The听business news with Rebecca Marsden. |
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0626 |
The sports news with Gary Richardson. |
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0632 |
A man and a woman have been arrested by听police investigating a raid on a Securitas depot in Kent. |
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0634 |
The prime minister is to tell听Scottish Labour activists that he has no intention of leaving office early. |
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Baghdad and nearby provinces are听now under curfew, amid听sectarian unrest sparked by an attack on a Shia shrine. |
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0639 |
A听review of听today's papers in the UK and Washington. |
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0646 |
Who听is the Palestinian's new prime minister? Katya听Adler听has been听to Gaza to find out. |
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0649 |
EU Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, proposed new duties on certain听shoe imports from China and Vietnam yesterday. Our Economics Editor Evan Davis examines Mr Mandelson's case. |
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0652 |
A Government bill will ban vehicles from unsurfaced country roads, known as green lanes.听Craig Carey-Clinch represents the Motorcycle Industry Association and Ian Ritchie chairs the Green Lanes protection group. |
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0709 |
How do detectives track down the perpetrators of big cash robberies? Retired Det Supt Peter Wilton joins us. |
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0712 |
Why we need a听hosepipe ban when it's raining. |
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0715 |
British troops have started building what will be their largest base in Afghanistan, Camp Bastion in the anarchic Helmand province. |
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0717 |
The听business news with Rebecca Marsden. |
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0721 |
Iain Watson has been talking to some of Labour's influential and usually loyal supporters about how听the prime minister should prepare for a handover. |
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0725 |
The听sports news with Gary Richardson. |
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Our reporter, Raphael Rowe, speaks to Mouloud Sihali, an Algerian currently on immigration bail, having been found not guilty of involvement in the so-called听Ricin plot and Ian MacDonald is a barrister who was appointed by the government to represent detainees. |
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0745 |
Why MI6 gave British servicemen LSD. |
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0749 |
Thought for the day with The Right Reverend James Jones. |
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0752 |
Rose Winterton, the health minister, is in Vienna today to meet other European health ministers to discuss the impact of听avian influenza on public health. |
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0810 |
Parts of Iraq听have been听put under curfew. Britain's former Special Representative to the country, Sir Jeremy Greenstock,听talks to us about the prospects for Iraq after the handover of sovereignty on 30 June. |
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0821 |
Julian Barnes on why听the Camden house made famous by Rimbaud and Verlaine should be saved. |
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0825 |
The听sports news with Gary Richardson. |
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0831 |
The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, has been looking at the impact of low business rates. Is it going to be part of David Cameron's policy review? |
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0836 |
The film director, Robert Altman, on Arthur Miller and the knowledge that he will finally get an Oscar. |
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0842 |
The听business news with Rebecca Marsden. |
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0845 |
Should we condemn Communism? Swedish MP, Goran Lindblad听and听Robert Service, professor of Russian history at Oxford tell us what they think. |
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0850 |
Ministers have been accused of bowing to industry pressure in watering down plans to make听homes use energy more frugally. We talk to the housing minister, Yvette Cooper. |
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Some of Our Less Memorable Moments
These infamous sound clips have risen from the Today vaults again to haunt our newsreaders and presenters. Enjoy!
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Can of what John?
John gets confused over the expression, 'opened a can of worms.'
- 18th March 2005 |
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What is our website and email address John?
John gets confused about all this modern technology and it's David Blunkett Jim!
- 22 December 2004 |
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Who's reading the news Sarah?
Sarah introduces a guest newsreader. And it's catching, as听Nick Clarke of the World at One demonstrates
- 4/5th October 2004 |
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The boy who likes to say YES!
Sports presenter Steve May is left trying desperately to get his seven year old guest to say something other than yes!
- 23rd September 2004 |
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When the technology fails听John and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
Jim听introduces a very听strange sounding听
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
听- 23th听July 2004 |
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Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
听- 25th October 2003 |
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Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002 |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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What is Charlotte Green giggling about?
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John and Jim share a joke about the weather? |
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We don鈥檛 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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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, in听Rome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
Part 1
Part 2 |
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First 成人快手 interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaks听to our reporter Zubeida Malik about听his ordeal and how he听continues to听campaign 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.听First 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 to听 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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Hillary Clinton talks to听James听Naughtie
Her questions surrounding the听White House handling of the Iraq war, plus her years with Bill in that stately building. |
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Mark Coles interviews Damien Hirst
......about his new exhibition in the small Slovenian capital Ljubljana, including drawings from his teenage years. |
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