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Choose an audio clip听you would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600-0630
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0711 |
Will another attempt to re-start听devolution work this time, in Belfast? |
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0714 |
We speak to Victor Bulmer-Thomas, the director of Chatham House, about the visit of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, to Britain. |
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0717
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Where does the Government stand on the Human Rights Act? |
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0722
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The听business news with Rebecca Marston. |
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0724
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We speak to Major General Patrick Cordingley, who has been doing a stint as a foreign correspondent for this programme and he is just back from Afghanistan. |
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0727 |
The sports听news with Steve May. |
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0730 |
How does the concept of "britishness" fit into the citizenship part of the curriculum?听 |
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0735 |
A look at the papers. |
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0737 |
We speak to 94 year old Studs Terkel who has been chronicling American life though his writing and his radio show in Chicago , since the 1930's.听 |
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0745 |
Thought For The Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue. |
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0750 |
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly are being recalled to听Stormont today. We speak to听the leader of the DUP, Ian Paisley, and Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Hain. |
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0810 |
The debate over听animal testing continues. We speak to the mother of one of the protesters jailed last week in the case that involved the theft of the corpse of Gladys Hammond. |
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0820 |
The 成人快手's dramatisation of the Booker Prize winning novel听In the Line of Beauty,听begins this week. |
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0827 |
The听sports news with Steve May. |
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0830 |
Why is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela staying clear of Downing Street during his trip to Britain?听 |
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0840
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The business news with Rebecca Marston. |
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0842 |
Labour faces not one but two by-elections next month in what was once its safest seat in Wales. |
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0844 |
The province of Sao Paulo in听Brazil is in the grip of severe violence.
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0847 |
Major General Patrick Cordingley, former commander of the Desert Rats talks about his听reconnaissance mission with the British army.
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0850 |
The Government is being accused of disenfranchising servicemen and women. We speak to Conservative peer, Baroness Hanham.听 |
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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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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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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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