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Choose an audio clip听you would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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Police听are still searching the house in east London after yesterday's anti-terrorist raid. |
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Tony Blair has an audience today with the听Pope in the Vatican before he flies back from his holiday. |
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The Labour Party has been having a spot of bother with fundraising following. Today the party will be telling us how it will raise money in future. |
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The admission of the Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, that he would consider running deputy leader has prompted a new rash of speculation about the leadership of the Labour party. Are there lessons they could learn from the past? This morning on Radio 4's听Talking Politics programme James Naughtie has a look back at the fall of Mrs Thatcher. Here's a preview.听 |
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The听sports news听with Gary Richardson. |
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A United Nations conference on AIDS has come up with a plan on how to get universal access to prevention, treatment and care of the disease by 2010. But the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says he regrets the document is not more specific. It deliberately left out any references to homosexuals, prostitutes and drug-users. Our UN correspondent, Laura Trevelyan speaks to the Secretary General. |
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Have you noticed teenagers sucking dummies? It is apparently the latest trend. The question is, why? Andrew Harrison is editor of MixMag and听Oliver James is a psychologist and writer. |
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Thought for the Day听with Christina Rees, a听 member of the General Synod in the Church of England.
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There will be two听demonstrations on animal testing today: one pro in Oxford, where the university is building a new research laboratory, and one anti in the village of Moreton in Marsh in Gloucestershire, where the building workers are being housed. Professor Colin Blakemore is the chief executive of the Medical Research Council. |
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The headlines in the papers this morning are pretty frightening: police are frantically hunting for听terrorists armed with a lethal chemical bomb. The most commonly used phrase is poison bomb and there's a great deal of speculation that it's in the form of a vest that a suicide bomber might wear. What's the basis for all this scary stuff? |
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We talk to the singer听Annie Lennox about her involvement in a campaign to raise awareness in developed countries, of how Aids is affecting Africa. |
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A look at some of your听letters and emails from the past week. |
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The听sports news with Gary Richardson. |
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For years听Richard Perle has been an influential figure in Washington circles. He was assistant defence secretary under Ronald Reagan and chairman of the defence advisory board in the run-up to the Iraq war. Last night he made a speech at the Oxford Union and he speaks to us this morning about Iran. |
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The labour party will today set out what it thinks on how political parties should be funded. It follows the row over whether peerages were given in return for loans. Today is the start of labour's consultation process but what's clear is that it's not prepared to give up the money it gets from unions.听Hazel Blears is the party chairman. |
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Our health correspondent, Jane Dreaper, reports on the medical developments that have taken place since that landmark moment, back in June 1981, when听Aids was brought to the general attention of the medical community. |
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It has been another turbulent week for John Prescott. He has surrendered his keys to Dorneywood, and now the Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, has expressed an interest in the position of the Labour Party's deputy leader. We are joined by the Times columnist, Matthew Parris, and Steve Richards, political commentator for the Independent. |
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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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