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ThursdayÌý8thÌýSeptemberÌý2005
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0607
A committee of MPs has concluded that the tax credit system is a nightmare.

0609
Interior ministers from across the EU are meeting in Newcastle today to talk about terrorism.

0615
Business news with Greg Wood.

0626
Sports news with Steve May.

0632
The damning Volcker report on the oil-for-food programme has shaken the UN.

0635
We talk to our correspondents Daniela Relph and Jon Manel about the current situation in the Gulf of Mexico affected by the recent hurricane.

0638
A former Labour social security minister is accusing the government of having allowed theÌýChild Support Agency to become chaotic.Ìý

0641
Research published today warns that theÌýTrade Union Movement faces a bleak future because of falling membership.

0647
A review of today's papers from Britain and Cairo.

0650
A single mother of three children, Becky Cooper, complains about the tax credit system.

0653
How is Australia dealing with the Ashes fever?

0709
Never before has a President of the United States had to ask the Congress for 50 billion dollars to rebuild communities swept away by a natural disaster.

0716
The Shadow Foreign Secretary and former ChairmanÌýDr Liam Fox is in the running for the Conservative leadership contest.

0720
Business update with Greg Wood.

0724
How much damage has been done to the United Nations by the fiasco over Iraq's oil-for-food programme?

0729
Sports update with Steve May.

0734
The former social security minister, Frank Field and Lord Hunt, the current minister, discuss the role of the Child Support Agency.

0746
The French president Jacques Chirac missed his weekly Cabinet meeting for the first time for ten years yesterday due to his illness.

0750
TheÌýthought for the day with the writer Rhidian Brook.

0755
Mick Jagger and John Major talk about their passion for cricket.

0810
The secretary generalÌýKofi Annan had to admit to the Security Council that he had failed to exercise proper control over the UN.Ìý

0822
What song will the fans sing as the England's cricketers take the pitch for the big match today? The Daily Mail columnistÌýSimon Heffer and singer Billy Bragg discuss.Ìý

0826
Sports update with Steve May.

0832
The writer Gore Vidal talks about the impact of the hurricane Katrina on America.

0836
A new play about multiculturalism calledÌý"Playing with Fire" opens in the autumn.

0842
Business update with Greg Wood

0845
Professor Sue BlackÌýof Dundee University has worked on identifying bodies in Thailand after the tsunami. She now talks about how a similar work could be done after hurricane Katrina.

0854
The political pressure on the Bush administration over hurricane Katrina is intense.

0856
Political parties are not what they used to be.
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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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