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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.听
0600 - 0630
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A听gunman has killed a young woman and injured at least 19 others at a college in the Canadian city of Montreal. |
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Wolfgang Ischinger, German ambassador to Britain, speaks to us about the reluctance to send more troops to Afghanistan. |
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0720 |
Business News with Rebecca Marston. |
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We speak to Dr Lawrence Grue, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, about failed attempts to stop听drug abuse by the young. |
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The听graffiti artist Banksy has听launched a three-day exhibition of his work in Los Angeles. |
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0730 |
Sports News with Garry Richardson. |
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0745 |
Thames Water wants to build a听new reservoir in the Cotswolds. We speak to Richard Aylard from Thames Water and Nick Scone from the Campaign to Protect Rural England. |
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0750 |
When mutant ninja turtles went out of fashion, children no longer wanted their听terrapins and released them - and that's been causing some problems. |
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Thought for the Day with novelist and columnist, Anne Atkins. |
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We speak to MP Clare Short who听is to听stand down at the next election so that she can campaign for a hung parliament and proportional representation. |
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We Speak to Hilary Benn about the governments decision to withhold 拢50m of its contributions unless the听World Bank changes the conditions it attaches to aid. |
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0820 |
EMI are releasing some听classic plays which they have discovered lying forgotten in their archives, including 'The Entertainer' starring Sir Laurence Olivier. |
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0825 |
Sports update with Garry Richardson. |
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0826 |
Business update with Rebecca Marston. |
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We speak to Alastair Darling about plans for a new one billion pound research institute to develop better ways of generating electricity that don't contribute to global warming. |
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Three听rabbis will be ordained in Germany today - in the first such ceremony in the country since WWII. |
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0845 |
The list of contenders is lengthening for the job of 听deputy leader of the Labour Party. |
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0837 |
Derek Pickup, local Labour councillor in Bristol,听speaks to us about the听local doormat ban. |
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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
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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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