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ThursdayÌý22nd SeptemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
Jon Pienaar looks ahead to Charles Kennedy's end-of-conference speech.

0609
A suspect in the failed July 21ÌýLondon bombings is to be extradited to Britain today.ÌýOur correspondent, Daniel Sandford.

0615
Business News from Greg Wood.

0626
Sports News from Steve May.

0632
Hurricane RitaÌýis heading towards Texas, Alastair Leithead is there.

0634
Trevor Phillips will tonight issue a warning about the state ofÌýrace relations in the UK. Barney Choudhury reports.

0637
British forces have scaled down their patrols in southern Iraq. Richard Galpin is in Baghdad.

0639
Are people living near fields sprayed withÌýpesticides at risk?

0641
Today'sÌýnewspaper review comes from the UK and Berlin.

0647
Hear howÌýsmoking just one to four cigarettes a day triples the risk of heart disease.

0650
When is aÌýplanet not a planet? Dr Brian Marsden of the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astro-Physics explains.

0654
Funding in the health service. Nigel Edwards is policy director of the NHS Confederation.

0709
Hurricane Rita became more threatening overnight. Alistair LeitheadÌýreports fromÌýTexas.

0715
More on the impact of crop spraying. Sir Tom Blundell chair ofÌýThe Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.

0718
Business news from Greg Wood.

0721
What Britain'sÌýhousing estates have in common with Iraq and Lebanon.

0725
Sports news from Steve May.

0732
The man responsible for drawing up a constitution for Europe tells us why he thinks Britain's EU presidency has been a disappointment.

0743
New Labour meets existentialism - waiting for Gordo.

0746
Hear about the preparationsÌýin the US ahead of Hurricane Rita.

0750
Thought for the Day with Dr Mona Siddiqui, a Senior Lecturer in Arabic Islamic Studies.

0753
DrÌýPaul Miller of the British Medical Association on the provision of healthcare in the NHS.

0810
HeadÌýof the Commission for Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips,ÌýonÌý racial segregation in Britain.

0820
We go back 50 years, to the fire at Grey Gables.

0832
What can be done to protect the health of those who live near fields sprayed with pesticides?

0838
Greg Wood with a business update.

0841
What politicians could learn from Britain's experience in Aden.

0845
A look at the label shaking upÌýthe MOBOs - and putting Carnaby Street back in fashion.

0850
TheÌýLib Dems' conference ends today - Nick Robinson reflects onÌýa week by the seaside.

0854
Lord Ahmed and Dr Jeevan Singh Deol discussTrevor Phillips' warning of increased segregation.
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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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