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WednesdayÌý14thÌýSeptemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
It will be a day ofÌýfuel protests today ... or so the organisers hope.

0609
There's been a big increase in the amount of rubbish beingÌýrecycled in England - at least in some areas.Ìý

0615
The latestÌýBusiness News from Greg Wood.

0625
News from theÌýSports world with Steve May.Ìý

0632
The UN reform plan which will be put to the summit ofÌýworld leaders in New York today was agreed by member states a few hours ago.

0635
After all the trouble of the past few days in Belfast the government has said it no longer recognises the Ulster Volunteer Force's ceasefire.Ìý

0637
Another huge car bomb explosion in Iraq.

0640
Today'sÌýNewspaper review comes from the UK and Berlin.Ìý

0642
Many garages ran out of petrol yesterday..but manyÌýlorry drivers have been advised not to join the protests.Ìý

0648
Norman Fowler, former chairman of theÌýConservative party has said it would be wrong to change the party's rules for choosing a new leader.

0709
CloserÌýmonitoring of doctors have been recommended by the General Medical Council in order to prevent another Harlold Shipman scenario. Their chairman James Johnson has some concerns unlike Sir Graeme Catto.

0714
''I CAN do more than one thing at a time''....that wasÌýPresident Bush's answer to those who have been wondering whether he might have too much on his plate this week.Ìý

0720
It's a funny thing about panic buying. Enough people decide there MIGHT be a shortage of something ... and then there IS. Even if there wasn't.Ìý

0723
Business News from Greg Wood.

0727
MoreÌýSports News from Steve May.

0732
Mark Malloch Brown, Kofi Annan's chief if staff gives some insight into the compromised version of this summit's UN reforms.

0736
Here's a sensitive question. Should those who've died in the hills - mountaineers, walkers - be commemorated there?Ìý

0740
Thought For The Day comes from the Vaishnav Hindu teacher and theologian Akhandadi Das.

0746
ExÌýUlster Volunteer Force member; Alistair LittleÌýÌýexplains why the UVF and other loyalists will feel even more isolated since the seeming hypocrisy of their being "specified" for breaking their ceasefire, while Peter Hain defends the decision.Ìý

0810
Does all the compromise necessitated by the conflicting priorities of the world's leaders at the 60th UN summit in New York this week leave it a washout, or make progress possible?

0822
The writer & godfather of the beat movementÌýWilliam Burroughs was also an avant garde painter,and for the first time since the artist's death in 1997, his paintings are to be exhibited.Ìý

0825
This morning'sÌýcar bomb in Iraq appears to have killed and injured many more than was originally thought and the death toll keeps rising.

0831
President Mugabe will be addressing the UN this week, brushing aside the UN's damning report on his policies. Boniface Chidyausiku is Mugabe's ambassador to the UN.Ìý

0833
MoreÌýbusiness news from Greg Wood.Ìý

0840
David Irvine, leader ofÌýÌýBelfast's Progressive Unionist Party explains why Protestants feel betrayed.

0850
Two veterans of the UN scene, Ken Adelman, a prominent neo-conservative in Washington and once a Reagan envoy to the UN and Sir Jeremy Greenstock,Ìýformer UN British Ambassador.
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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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