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Friday 29th July听2005
NB: we are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.

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0607
Counterfeit copies听of the world's biggest selling听anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor were sold to the NHS.

0610
Government proposals deregulating small businesses by scrapping their pollution controls, are threatening targets on air quality.

0615
Business with Rebecca Marston.

0626
Sports news with Mary Rhodes.

0631
Denis Murray and Rita Chakrabarti report on the response to the听IRA's statement in both Northern Ireland and Westminster.

0634
A review of today's papers.

0636
Sir Ian Blair has been defending the policemen who shot the innocent Brazilian Jean Charles De Menezes in London last week.

0641
Sanjeev Srivastava reviews the听 papers in Delhi this morning.

0644
A听mini tornado hit Birmingham yesterday, injuring twenty - Bob Walker spoke to some of those affected.

0650
NASA officials say a small shard of protective foam might have hit the wing of the Discovery Space Shuttle as it took off on Tuesday. Professor Colin Pillinger, head scientist of Beagle 2, comments.

0655
Austin Hunter, Editor of the Unionist paper, the Newsletter, and Stephen O'Reilly, Deputy Editor of the nationalist Irish News, review the听Northern Irish papers' response to the IRA's statement.

0709
Andrew Hosken reports from Belfast on the cautious reaction to the IRA's statement. Senator George Mitchell, who chaired the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement, comments on the momentous developments.

0715
Professor David Southall, the paediatrician suspended from child protection work for听3 years by the GMC for his involvement in the Sally Clark case,听speaks to us听in his first interview since the ruling.

0719
Business with Rebecca Marston.

0722
Councillor Paul Tilsley, Deputy Leader of Birmingham City Council, describes the repercussions of the听tornado yesterday.

0726
Sports update with Mary Rhodes.

0732
Sinn Fein Vice-President, Pat Doherty, MP and Jeffrey Donaldson, Democratic Unionist MP, discuss the听end of the IRA's armed campaign and the prospects for power sharing.

0740
Lord Tebbit, who was injured when the IRA blew up the Grand Hotel in Brighton听20 years ago, reflects on the effects of terrorism.

0745
Thought for the Day with the Right Reverend Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford.

0748
Hazel Blears, Minister of State for Policing, Security and Community Safety discusses our report on the spread of Islamic extremism in British prisons.

0810
Irish PM Bertie Ahern responds to the IRA's declaration of an end to their armed campaign.

0818
Mikis Theodorakis, the celebrated composer of Zorba the Greek, turns 80 today. Professor Roderick Beaton, of King's College, London,听 explains his significance听in Greece.听

0826
Sports news with Mary Rhodes.

0832
Andrew Lloyd Webber, who founded the Open Churches Trust, explains the concept behind their new Church Explorer's Handbook, by showing Nicola Stanbridge around one of his favourites...

0837
Business with Rebecca Marston.

0840
Cyril Ramaphosa - the South African anti Apartheid campaigner and one of the inspectors on the International Commission on Decommissioning, explains how the IRA should expunge their weapons.

0844
Fashion designer听Alexander McQueen reveals his nomination for the greatest painting in Britain.

0848
Is Harry Potter Jewish? Dr Cia Sautter and Dina Rabinovitch preview the issues at the first international academic conference on Harry Potter, beginning today.

0853
The 大象传媒's Political Editor听Andrew Marr steps down today. He joins us to reflect on his experiences.
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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!

Can of what John?
John gets confused over the expression, 'opened a can of worms.'
- 18th March 2005
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
Who's reading the news Sarah?
Sarah introduces a guest newsreader. And it's catching, as听Nick Clarke of the World at One demonstrates
- 4/5th October 2004
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
When the technology fails听John and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
Jim听introduces a very听strange sounding听
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
听- 23th听July 2004
Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
听- 25th October 2003

Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002
Waiting
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?
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.

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)
Edward Stourton interviews Monsignor Charles Burns, a retired head of the Vatican's Secret Archives, in听Rome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
Part 1
Part 2
First 大象传媒 interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaks听to our reporter Zubeida Malik about听his ordeal and how he听continues to听campaign for five Britons still there to be freed.
Justin Webb interviews Walter Cronkite who pays tribute to Dan Rather, a 73 year old news presenter in America whose is retiring after 24 years.
(10/03/05)
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).
, about the recent increase of religious violence in Nigeria.
(19/05/04)
John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
(03/05/04).
Jim Naughtie interviews Bob Woodward.听First Watergate, now a controversial book into events in the White House pre-Iraq war.
(20/04/04).
Sarah Montague interviews Paul Burrell.
The former royal butler denies betraying Diana, Princess of Wales, insisting his controversial new book was "a loving tribute".
General James L. Jones
During his visit to听 London - the Supreme Commander of Nato talks to James Naughtie about the threat posed to NATO by a stronger EU military force.
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
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