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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
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TheÌýdebate on reform of the house of lords begins in the commons today, but will it work? We asked three MPs with different visions for the future of the second chamber. |
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0712 |
Ghana celebratesÌýfifty years of independence today. Our correspondent Peter Biles reports. |
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0721 |
Business News with Greg Wood. |
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0726 |
According to a ±«Óãtv investigation, on the spot fines are allowingÌýrepeat offenders to avoid getting a criminal record. |
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0730 |
Sports News with Steve May. |
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0735 |
TheÌýloans for peerages affair continues to make headlines - the Guardian front page features a story which it has described as well-sourced and significant. |
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Where does conservativeÌýEuropean policy go from here? We ask Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague. |
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It's been 13 years in the making and cost 7 million pounds. "Chinese Democracy" Guns n Roses latest album, was due to be released later today but it's been delayed yet again. |
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Thought for the Day with Dr Indarjit Singh - Editor of the Sikh Messenger. |
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The US Congress has been holding its first hearings into the scandal over conditions at theÌýWalter Reed Army Medical Centre which treats American servicemen wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
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0810 |
The Metropolitan Police and the Attorney General have failed toÌýThe Guardian from publishing an account of what it says are developments in the cash-for-honours inquiry. We speak to the paper's Editor, Alan Rusbridger. |
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Cities and towns are expanding - four out of five of us now live in an urban area yet theÌýRoyal Commission on Environmental Pollution says it was "astonished" to find that there's no over-arching urban strategy in Whitehall. |
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0822 |
Who are theÌýmost persuasive people of the last several centuries? We ask Stephen Bayley and Felipe Fernandez. We also hear from David Lammy, DBC Pierre and Claire Short. |
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0830 |
Sports Update with Steve May. |
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NineÌýAmerican soldiers were killed in Iraq yesterday. Andrew North reports. |
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Business Update with Greg Wood. |
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0840 |
Since theÌýcommittee report ITV has suspended all on-air quizzes, contests and votes that use premium-rate phone lines. |
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The last part of Michael Cockerell's documentaries onÌýTony Blair is on ±«Óãtv2 tonight. A portrait of the prime minister that probably gets closer to the heart of his premiership than any other. We talk to Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott. |
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We speak to Rajiv Chandrasekaran who has written a book - Imperial Life in the Emerald City - about life under the Coalition Provisional Authority. |
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AÌýpowerful earthquake measuring six-point-three on the Richter scale has struck the west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, followed by an after-shock of almost the same magnitude. Lucy Williamson reports. |
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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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