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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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Our Guest Editor Rowan Williams on why the "moral and practical flaws ofÌýinvading Iraq have put our troops' lives at risk". |
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The Sizewell A nuclear power station in Suffolk and the Dungeness B station in Kent areÌýdue to shut down on New Year's Eve. Michael Buchanan reports. |
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0718 |
A moment of calm. |
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0720 |
Business News with Ed Warner |
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0725 |
Everyday this week we are looking at one of the 6 shortlisted laws in our Christmas Repeal. Today we discuss the Act of Settlement. |
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0727 |
Sports News withÌýWill Schindler. |
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We are joined by Health Minister, Ivan Lewis to discuss how members of the government, including himself, are campaigning against hospital unit closures. |
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0732 |
Guest Editor Rowan Williams asked Sanchia Berg to report on the homeless people who go unnoticed. |
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0740 |
A moment of calm. |
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0745 |
Thought for the Day with Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks. |
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Rowan Williams asked us to report on the work of Professor Mohammed Yunus who won theÌýÌýNobel Peace Prize this year for founding the Grameen Bank. We speak to Professor Yunus and asked him how the Grameen Bank works. |
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Sinn Fein could finally be about to give its support to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. We speak to Sinn Fein's chief negotiator Martin MacGuiness. |
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The Archbishop of Canterbury tells us why theÌýTrident missile system and its implicit threat of mass slaughter is immoral. |
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Saddam Hussein's lawyer claims the former dictator has been Ìýhanded back to the Iraqi government by US forces. Peter Greste reports. |
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0820 |
A moment of calm. |
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0825 |
ShouldÌýobituaries be a warts-and-all account or more tactfully respectful of the dead? |
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0830 |
Sports Update with Will Schindler. |
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Rowan Williams, patron of The Good Childhood Inquiry, asked us to explore whether we areÌýrushing children too quickly into becoming adults and consumers. |
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Business Update with Ed Warner. |
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Archives released todayÌýunder the 30 year rule include the Prime Minister's private notes from some of the most important cabinet meetings of the last 50 years. Sanchia Berg reports. |
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Edward Stourton asks our Guest Editor the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, what he had wanted to hear on the programme and why. |
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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)
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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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