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Choose an audio clip听you would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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The Pentagon claims听Russia provided Saddam Hussein with intelligence on American troops days before the invasion. |
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The Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett is deflecting the听loans scandal by demanding the Tories publish their finances. |
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James Reynolds reports from Jerusalem and Bethlehem in the run up to the Israeli elections. |
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Yesterday in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy. |
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Despite lengthy meetings between听 EU leaders in Brussels, nobody is mentioning the constitution. Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP in the European Parliament, joins us. |
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Sports news with Steve May. |
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Although ignored in the budget, recent job cuts show the听NHS is in trouble. Karen Jennings, Unison's National Secretary for Health, and the NHS Confederation Chief Executive Gill Morgan. |
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The ban on听smoking in public places comes into force in Scotland after tonight. Huw Williams reports on the mixed reception it will receive. |
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Thought for the Day with the Reverend Rob Marshall. |
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Carolyn Quinn discusses EU energy security with the Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel. |
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A new report reveals widespread听 self-harming amongst the young. Nicola Stanbridge reports on a hospital in Staffordshire which is allowing patients to continue cutting themselves under supervision. We also hear from mental health adviser Ian Hullat. For听more information about this issue, please call the 成人快手 Radio 4 action line: 0800 044044. |
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A look at listeners' letters. |
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Sports news with Steve May. |
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Margaret Beckett has written to the Tories demanding that they now disclose a list of the听loans they have received; Tory MP Roger Gale responds. |
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Lawyers representing Barry George, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of Jill Dando, claim they have new evidence proving his innocence. Raphael Rowe reports. |
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A row has erupted after Sir Mike Jackson claimed that听Norman Kember and the听other hostages who were freed, hadn't shown any gratitude for their rescue. We speak to Jonathan Bartley of the Christian Peacemaker Teams. |
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Following President Chirac's objections, we ask whether听 English really is the "language of business"? Rudi Thomas, who runs the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium, and Professor Bruno Gollnisch, deputy leader of the national front party in France, discuss the issue. |
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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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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.听A 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 that听the 成人快手 Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the 成人快手 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, 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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