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ThursdayÌý15thÌýSeptemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
A procession of leaders has been passing through the general assembly chamber here: each prime minister or president putting a personal stamp on these summit discussions.

0609
We'll hear today the date of the planned switchover from analogue to digital television.

0615
Business News fromÌýGreg Wood.

0625
Sports News from Steve May.Ìý

0632
Prince Harry is 21 today. And he's given his first proper interviews.Ìý

0635
Tony Blair has been speaking to theÌýUnited Nations about development, and arguing that it has taken significant steps to help fight terrorism.

0637
We'll hear about the government's plans for newÌýanti-terror laws when it sends more details of its proposed new bill to the opposition parties later this morning.Ìý

0640
Todays Newspaper review comes from the UK and Baghdad.

0642
AÌýfascinating survey of people around the world about the way they are governed has been done by ´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service.

0648
Part time workers are only doing a fraction of what they're capable of because employers give more responsibility to their full time colleagues.

0708
Tony Blair has spoken to the UN about terrorism. Marianna Baabar, the Diplomatic Correspondent for the Pakistani newspaper, The News.

0714
The government's obligation onÌýpower companies to invest in renewables.The Energy minister Malcolm Wicks.

0718
Last week British Gas put up its prices. Today it's reported its latest profits. Greg Wood with the business news.

0720
Yesterday 180 people, mostly shias, were killledÌý in Bagdad.ÌýAli Al Bayati is a counsellor at the Iraqi embassy in London and a spokesman for the SCIRI, the supreme council for the Islamic revolution in Iraq.

0724
Steve May with the sports news.

0730
Time is running out for old analogue TV's. The Culture Secretary,ÌýTessa Jowell is expected to announce that the switch to digital-only television broadcasts will begin in 2008. Mike Thomson reports.

0739
We find out what's happened to theÌýSeven Up generation. Now they are forty nine.Ìý

0744
ThoughtÌýforÌýthe Day. The speaker is the Reverend Angela Tilby.

0747
The president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfwitz and the European trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, on free trade.

0810
Prince Harry is 21 today. He tells us about his feelings about his Sandhurst training, his father's remarriage and that Nazi costume.

0822
A statue of Alison Lapper will be unveiled on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square today. Alison was born without arms and with stunted legs and is portrayed naked and pregnant in her statue. She joins us.

0825
Tony Blair has spoken with surprising modesty about his expectations for the summit.Ìý Bob Geldof is predictably optimistic while Kumia Naidoo of the Global Call to Action against Poverty refused to share that guarded optimism.

0831
Conservative party chairmanÌý Francis Maud talks about Michael Howard's proposed changes to the process of choosing a new leader for the party.Ìý

0833
Business news from Greg Wood.ÌýÌý

0840
Mark Sarwotka and Jim McAulsen review what has possibly been a rather disappointing conference for the TUC.Ìý

0850
SevenÌýforeign nationals have been detained on grounds of national security.

0850
It's now been a month since the Indonesian Government signed a peace deal with separatist rebels in the tsunami affected province ofÌýAceh .

0855
James Naugtie on the much anticipated face off between George Galloway and Christopher Hitchens.
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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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