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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600 - 0630
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0700 - 0730
07:10 We speak to听 Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams about whether the Church is doing enough to investigate past cases of child abuse.
07:15 The business news with Greg Wood.
07:20 Is the Government giving conflicting advice about drinking alcohol to pregnant women?
07:25 The sports news with Steve May.
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0730 - 0800
07:30 We hear from Jon Cruddas MP, on the furore surrounding Margaret Hodge's comments on immigration and housing.
07:35 The battle between Congress and the White House over funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is over听- we ask whether Congress have caved in?
07:40 A look at today's papers.
07:45 Lily Allen's doing it, the Arctic Monkeys are doing it, even Prince William is doing it.听We look at the rise of running your social life on the internet.
07:48 Thought for the Day with Catherine Pepinster - Editor of Tablet.
07:50 A report condemns the out-of-hours treatment given to a mother who died despite speaking to eight different doctors.
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0800 - 0830
08:10 We speak to David Pearson, Executive Director of the Church Child Protection Advisory Service, who has written an open letter to Williams on the need for the Church to go back over old child abuse records.
08:15 As part of our series on sleep we look at the art of power napping - how useful is it? How can a short nap make up for long period of lost sleep?
08:20 More evidence that spring is arriving earlier... this time from the 成人快手 Springwatch survey.
08:25 A sports update with Steve May.
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0830-0900
08:30 The streets of London are rapidly听losing their trees because of fears they'll fall on people or cause structural damage to buildings.
08:35 Business update with Greg Wood.
08:40听We speak to听David Stout, Director of Primary Care Trust Network, about failures in out of hours medical procedures.
08:45 When the Berlin Wall came down , East Germany's secret police destroyed millions of secret files. Now scientists have developed software to piece them together again
08:50 Author, Sara Paretsky, has a new book. Not fiction this time - but a collection of her lectures over the last ten years entitled "Writing in the Age of Silence".
08:55 Pallant House Gallery in Chichester won the Gulbenkian Prize for the best museum in Britain last night - we look at other small, unique collections |
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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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