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Today's briefing hour: catch up on the day's news, sport and business.
0600 - 0630
0630- 0700 |
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0700 - 0730
07:10 The government launches a voluntary scheme to get drinks companies to label their cans and bottles with alcohol levels and health warnings.
07:15 ÌýWe speak to Nobel Prize winning Nigerian writer, Wole Soyinka, from theÌýHay Festival about his campaign to clean up politics in his country.
07:20 We hear from Dr Mike Grocott, the leader of a British medical team who treated a woman climber left to die on Everest.
07:22 The business news with Greg Wood.
07:26 Is the leadership of the Welsh Assembly about to change again?
07:28 The sports news with Garry Richardson.
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0730 - 0800
07:30 Lord Ashcroft, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, defends his role in a whaling controversy.
07:35 A look at today's papers.
07:38 Has the Prime Minister asked Alastair Campbell to tone down references to his use of strong language when the Campbell diaries are published?
07:40 Thought for the day with Gwyneth Lewis - Wales' first National Poet.
07:45ÌýÌýA child who spent a decade at a refugee camp in northwestern Kenya has inspired a book co-written by the American novelist Dave Eggers and that former refugee Valentino Achak Deng.
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0800 - 0830
08:10 Paul Wolfowitz has given his only interview, since the announcement of his resignation.
8:20 Vivienne Westwood joins us from the Hay Literary Festival to talk about her manifesto on modern art and commercialism.
08:25 Sports update from Garry Richardson.
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0830-0900
08:30 The debate on the role of religion in public life is gathering pace; we debate the "God Delusion" versus the "Science Delusion" with Richard Dawkins and Lord Robert Winston, fertility expert.
08:35 Business update with Greg Wood.
08:40 One of the issues which came up at yesterday's Today programme public meeting at Hay was the efficacy of public warnings. Dr Tim Crayford is the President of the Association of the Directors of Public Health.
08:45 A number of senior figures associated with the so-called Neo-Con agenda in the US have left public office recently - we reassess the significance of the movement.
08:50 What does the Prime Minister have time to read? And what should he read? Simon Schama and Maureen Lipman give their suggestions.
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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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