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29th August 2003
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0607
We still don't know what caused last night's black out across London. Hundreds of thousands of commuters were trapped underground on tube trains. Our reporter is Jane Francis Kelly.

0610
Talks in Beijing about the North Korea's nuclear ambitions seem to have ended - Charles Scanlon has being following their progress.

0615
Nick Cosgrove has a round-up of today's business news.

0632
A day without hearings for Lord Hutton - so we can all听digest a pretty dense couple of days of evidence - Shaun Ley is our political correspondent.

0635
The New York Times has forced the city's port authority to release transcripts of phone calls and radio messages from people trapped inside the World Trade Centre after the September 11th terrorist attacks. Our听correspondent听in New York,听Jane Standley explains how the transcripts came to be published.

0637
Why 3,500 secondary schools posts may be at risk.听 Sue Littlemore has more details.

0644
The American Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, has said Washington is considering whether to accept a force endorsed by the United Nations in Iraq. Until now they've only been prepared to accept other countries joining the existing coalition. Valerie Jones is our correspondent in Baghdad.

0648
Our World Press Review comes from David Willey in Rome.

0651
Gibraltar doesn't have enough voters to vote in European Parliamentary elections so it has to join up with a region in England and Wales. The electoral commission has decided that region should be the South West. The Commission chairman is Sam Younger.

0654
Mombai or Bombay? This week's bomb attacks in whatever you choose the city have raised the ever contentious issue of how we treat foreign place names - Mary Hockaday is the editor of World Service News and Current Affairs.

0709
Around 250,000 people were stuck on tubes and trains last night when the power went down. Many had to be led along the tracks to safety. The power cut affected large parts of London and the South East. We speak to the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone and Mark Fairnburn, the Chief Operating Officer of the National Grid.

0716
The Prime Minister may have most of this morning's headlines but there are plenty of column inches devoted to the other heavy hitter appearing before the Hutton inquiry yesterday - the Chairman of the 大象传媒 governors Gavyn Davies.听John Tusa听knows the way the corporation works well - both as a working journalist and senior executive.

0720
The final words of some of those who died in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre were made public yesterday. The New York Times newspaper took legal action to force the publication of transcripts by the Port authority of calls for help. Rita Lasar's brother died in the towers. She represents the 9/11 support group Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.

0732
A survey by the Times Educational Supplement suggests that the number of teachers in secondary schools has been badly hit by this year's funding difficulties - it claims thousands of teaching posts have gone. The government say the survey isn't big enough to mean very much.. Shadow Education Spokesman Damien Green and Graham Lane, Education Leader for the Local Government Association.

0745
Corrie Corfield has a review of today's papers.

0748
The Presidential elections in Rwanda this week inevitably stirred memories of the genocide there in 1994. Now a Canadian journalist has written a fictional account of what happened. The novel is called "A Sunday in the Park in Kigali". Our arts correspondent, Rebecca Jones has been talking to its author, Gil Courtemanche.

0752
The US听has indicated that it might accept a United Nations force in Iraq - provided it is led by an American.听 Our correspondent in the region is听Peter Biles听and Ahmed Fawzi was spokesman for Sergio Viera de Mello the UN Special representative to Iraq who was murdered last week.

0810
The sometimes bewildering detail being laid out before the Hutton inquiry will no doubt fade in the public mind as time goes on, but the question of trust is now inescapably at the forefront of public life. Indeed the Prime Minister put it there himself when he gave evidence at the Inquiry yesterday - he said the allegations were so serious that he would have had to resign if they had been true.听Former Ministers, George Foulkes and Lord Heseltine.

0830
A hundred years ago this month, the word Bolshevik was used for the first time by Lenin. He was calling for an organisation to be formed that would overthrow the Russian government. The word gave birth to modern communism and the Bolshevik regime was in power from 1917 to 1991. Robert Service is author of "Lenin, A Biography'. Iskra Myachina is an 88 year old Muscovite whose mother took part in the 1917 revolution...

0836
Do you remember a book called "The Great and Terrible Quest" by Margaret Lovett? It was about a mysterious minstrel called Huon who goes on a quest in medieval Italy to find the ten year old orphan Trad and help him reclaim his kingdom. Edward Lucas of the Economist was so taken with it as a child that he tried to track it down so he could read it to his children. And that was just the start of the story.

0840
Should only ham produced in Parma be allowed to be called Parma Ham? That's what the EU Trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy wants. He is lobbying the World Trade Organisation to introduce new rules so that a list of 41 famous food and drink names associated with places in Europe, cannot be marketed under that name if they are made somewhere else.

0850
What do we make of this momentous week at the Hutton inquiry? Carl Bernstein was one of the journalists who uncovered the Watergate scandal, John Rentoul听is the Prime Minister's biographer and the Shadow Foreign Affairs spokesman, Michael Ancram.
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The Blunder Clips

Some of Our Less Memorable Moments
These infamous sound clips have risen from the Today vaults again to haunt our newsreaders and presenters. Enjoy!


Garry Richardson interviews an Australian cricket fan masquerading as England star Alec Stewart.
- 7 January 2003

Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002
It's not always easy to remember ... Sarah forgets where she is
- 20 May 2002

Jim is besieged by his friends in the studio
- 15 December 2001
Jim attempts to interview Gruff Rhys of 'Super Furry Animals'.

John gets a little confused as to which Greg he has on the programme
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster.
What is Charlotte Green giggling about?
John and Jim share a joke about the weather?

Sue and the wrong guest
The Extended Interview

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.

Hillary Clinton talks to听James听Naughtie
Her questions surrounding the听White House handling of the Iraq war, plus her years with Bill in that stately building.
Mark Coles interviews Damien Hirst
......about his new exhibition in the small Slovenian capital Ljubljana, including drawings from his teenage years.
James Naughtie interviews Hans Blix:
Hans Blix says allies had motivations other than WMDs for going to war - 6th June 2003.

Los Angeles based psychiatrist, Dr Carol Lieberman, tells us why she鈥檚 complained to child protection authorities about Michael Jackson.

Zubeida Malik talked to Prince Turki Al Faisal - the new Saudi Ambassador to Britain before the war in Iraq
Robin Aitken's interview with Jackie Elliott before he was executed
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