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Choose an audio clipÌýyou would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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TheÌý±«Óãtv Office seems to be uncertain as to how many foreign nationals have left secure hospitals without being traced. |
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0711 |
The military junta in Burma has extended Aung San Suu Kyi's period of house arrest. We speak to Glenys Kinnock, an MEP, who has been campaigning for Ms Suu Kyi's release.ÌýÌý |
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Hear extracts fromÌýthe interviewÌýCherie BlairÌýgave to the ±«Óãtv World Service. |
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We talk toÌýProfessor John Stein from Oxford University about the efforts to extend the exclusion zone, around the University, inside which demonstrations can take place. |
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AnÌýearthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale has struck the island of Java in Indonesia, an area devastated by the tsunami in 2004.ÌýÌý |
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0726 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0730 |
After two days of talks,ÌýUniversity lecturers have failed to reach an agreement with their employers about pay. |
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0740 |
A look at the papers. |
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0742 |
We speak to David Rothenberg about whyÌýinsects make good musicians. |
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0745 |
Thought For The Day with, Brian Draper, lecturer at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. |
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The ±«Óãtv Office has been criticised for allowing a number of people to leave secure hospitals without being traced. Is the department in crisis? We speak to the former ±«Óãtv Office minister, Barbara Roche. |
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0810 |
Should Britain regard itself as a multi-faith society? We speak to the Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, who says it should not. Instead, he thinks that Britain is a Christian country that welcomes other faiths. |
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0820 |
Performers are taking their instruments up to a series of rocky crags on the Yorkshire Dales today, to entertain hill walkers as part of the Swaledale Festival. Hear our report. |
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0826 |
Hear a selection of ourÌýlistener's letters and emails. |
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0830 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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The Defence Secretary says heÌýis troubled by the amount of sexual harassment in the forces. We speak to Catherine Brumfitt, a former RAF police officer who was sexually harassed andÌýwon compensation, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup . |
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0840 |
Hear the latest news on theÌýIndonesian earthquake which may have killed more than 1300 people. |
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0845 |
Hear our interview with the eminent composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle, who criticisedÌýpop music at the Ivor Novello awards this week. |
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0850 |
The rulings on two big moneyÌýdivorce cases have laid down new guidelines for multi-million pound settlements. We talk to Natasha Walter, a journalist and author, and Viv Groskop, a columnist for The Observer. |
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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, asÌýNick 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 failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004 |
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Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 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’t 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.ÌýA 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 thatÌýthe ±«Óãtv Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the ±«Óãtv 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, inÌýRome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
Part 1
Part 2 |
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First ±«Óãtv interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaksÌýto our reporter Zubeida Malik aboutÌýhis ordeal and how heÌýcontinues toÌýcampaign 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.ÌýFirst 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 toÌý 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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