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MondayÌý24th OctoberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
HurricaneÌýWilma strengthens as itÌýheads for Florida. More from Jeremy Cooke in Cancun and Oliver Conway inÌýFlorida.

0615
Is Sky'sÌýPremiership TV rights under threat?ÌýGreg Wood tells us more.

0626
Everton end Chelsea's 100% record in the Premiership. Garry Richardson has the details.

0632
Gary O'Donoghue onÌýthe government's new plans for education reform.

0635
The EU is considering stricter measures to stemÌýthe spread of bird flu. Tom Heap has more.

0637
There is massive police presence inÌýBirmingham after a weekendÌýof violence. Nick Garnet reports.

0640
Will President Bush's closest aides faceÌýcharges over a CIA leak row? Justin Webb finds out.

0643
A review of today's papers in the UK and Brazil.

0648
Forecasters predict the coldest winter this year. Are we ready for it? We speak to Lib Dem's Lord Ezra, who has expressed concern about this.

0652
Brian Hoskins ofÌýReading University tells us whyÌýclimate change could make any aid given to Africa useless.

0709
Is theÌýgovernment doingÌýenough to prepare for a bird flu pandemic? We ask Tim Bennett of the National Farmers' UnionÌýand Tory Oliver Letwin.

0714
We catch up with the latest on Hurricane Wilma with US meteorologist Stacey Stewart.

0718
Greg Wood talks toÌýCBI boss,ÌýSir Digby Jones about the EU'sÌýsocial and economic reforms.

0721
How radical should our educational reform be? Think tank,ÌýReform's Andrew Haldenby and Lib Dem's Ed Davey discuss.

0726
Chelsea's Jose Mourinho says his team were denied victory at Everton. Garry Richardson has more.

0732
Raphael Rowe finds out why there are underlying tensions between Black and Asian communities in Birmingham.

0743
Today programme's eggcup: Hear how you can getÌýone. for details.

0744
We ask Janet Booth, why she wantsÌýtheÌýgovernment to pardon her grand-father,Ìýwho was shot for cowardice during World War 1.

0747
Thought for the day with Clifford Longley, religious commentator.

0750
Will the EUÌýsummit overÌýglobalisation andÌýageing population amount to anything?ÌýETUC's John Monks and Labour's David Blunkett discuss.

0810
Ex-Education secretary Estelle Morris and Tory David Cameron on the government's new schools plans.

0823
We speak to Duncan Fletcher, theÌýman who guided theÌýEngland cricketÌýteam to victory in the Ashes.

0826
Garry Richardson with the sports news.

0834
Should ordinary people be given more decision-making powers? LSE's Tony Travers and broadcaster Matthew Parris discuss.

0845
A poll suggests thatÌýage discrimination is still common. More from Greg Wood.

0848
Martin Narey - set to become chief executive of Barnardo's children's charity -Ìýexpresses his dismay over overcrowded jails.

0853
Is children's TV less educational thanÌýthey once was? C´óÏó´«Ã½ boss Amanda Gabbitas and ex-schools' inspector Chris Woodhead comment.
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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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