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MondayÌý5thÌýSeptemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
Lebanon's opposition wantsÌýpro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud toÌýresign. More from Kim Ghattas in Beirut.

0609
China's textiles row with the EU continues.Rupert Wingfield Hayes inÌýBeijing has the latest.

0615
Petrol pricesÌý hits new highÌýin the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Greg Wood has more.Ìý

0626
Garry Richardson has the latest sports news.

0632
The police are shooting to kill inÌýNew Orleans. More fromÌýJustin Webb in Washington andÌýJames Commarasamy in New Orleans.

0637
Shadow foreign secretary Liam Fox enters the race for the Tory party leadership today. Norman Smith tells us more.

0640
Caroline Wyatt in Paris brings us the latest onÌýpresident Jacques Chirac's condition after he was hospitalised at the weekend.

0642
Ministers are to consider whether forced marriages should be made aÌýcriminal offence in the UK. Neil Bennett reports.

0647
A review of today's papers in the UK and Iraq.

0650
Doctors say the government's smoking ban proposal is 'half-hearted'. Jane Dreaper with the details.

0654
Health specialist Dr David McCoy says G8 countries' pledges to help the developing world lack a clear vision. Cabinet minister Hilary Benn responds.

0709
Michael Buchanan reports on the plight of New Orleans victimsÌýarriving in Texas.

0711
Fertility expert Lord Winston tells us why stem cell research doesn't hold the answers to all our most terrible diseases.

0716
We speak to Brigadier Chris Stern, who is overseeingÌýthe UK aid operationsÌýto helpÌývictims in the devastated city of New Orleans.

0718
Greg Wood has the business news.

0720
Germany's chancellor and his challenger hold a TV debate afterÌýweeks of campaigning ahead of next month'sÌýelections. Ray Furlong reports.

0724
Garry Richardson has the sports news.

0731
Prime Minister Tony Blair saysÌýhe was horrified by the scale of the disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina

0742
Dad's Army or a bunch of revolutionaries? What's the truth about the Home Guard?ÌýMike Thomson finds out.

0746
Thought for the Day with Rev Dr Alan Billings,Ìýdirector of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University.

0750
We speak toÌýUS Homeland Security's Ross KnockeÌý on theÌýrelief effort in New Orleans and ask pollster Frank Luntz howÌýKatrina's chaos will affectÌýPresident Bush's popularity.

0810
Jane Wheeldon, British survivor of the US HurricaneÌýsays she got no helpÌýfrom the UK embassy there.ÌýForeign Office minister Lord Triesman responds.

0822
Find out theÌýwinner of our greatest painting competition. Click here to view Britain's greatest painting.

0826
Garry Richardson has the sports news update.

0832
Jane Peel reports from Biloxi on the relief efforts following Hurricane Katrina.

0836
Tory David Davis tells usÌýthe formula he would like to see used to choose the next Tory leader.

0842
The RAC Foundation is calling for a variable tax on fuel. Greg Wood has more.

0845
Does China present an opportunity or threat for Europe? Journalist Jonathan Fenby and author Joe Studwell discuss.

0854
Hear our debate on Britain's greatest painting.
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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, asÌýNick 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 failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004
Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 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’t always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.

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.
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, inÌýRome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
Part 1
Part 2
First ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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.
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.ÌýFirst 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 toÌý 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 toÌýJamesÌýNaughtie
Her questions surrounding theÌýWhite 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.

Zubeida Malik talked to Prince Turki Al Faisal - the new Saudi Ambassador to Britain before the war in Iraq
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