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FridayÌý11th NovemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
Figures released today show a dramaticÌýincrease in the number of prosecutions for racist crimes.

0609
Despite UN approval, former footballer and presidential candidate George Weah is objecting to the way theÌýLiberian elections have been conducted.

0615
Business with Rebecca Marston.

0626
Sports news with Garry Richardson.

0632
The UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will visitÌýJordan today.

0635
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt will deliver a speech today demandingÌýGPs do more to meet patient demands.

0638
Sean CurranÌýreports from Westminster following a week of political upheaval.

0641
A review ofÌýtoday's papers in both the UK and Australia.

0644
Yesterday in Parliament with Rachel Hooper.

0647
Nicola Stanbridge reports on the controversy surrounding a government press release about the contentious Licensing Act.

0655
Derek Ogg, chair of the Advocates Criminal Law Group for the Scottish Bar, expresses concerns about theÌýpoliticisation of the police force.

0709
British businessman Rupert Wise, who has just been released by theÌýIranian authorities, describesÌýhis 11 day ordeal.

0716
Beverley Malone, General Secretary of the Royal College of Nurses, and Shadow Health SecretaryÌýAndrew Lansley voice objections to government policy concerning primary care trusts.

0717
Business update with Rebecca Marston.

0721
Seamus Taylor, director of equality and diversity at the Crown Prosecution Service, discusses the rise in racist crimes.

0725
Sports update with Garry Richardson.

0732
EU Commissioner for TradeÌýPeter Mandelson explains why goals to increase global trade are being "recalibrated".

0742
Sanchia Berg reports on the potential use ofÌýsonic weapons in Britain.

0747
Thought for the Day with the Right Reverend Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford.

0750
Health Minister Liam Byrne and Labour MP Gordon PrenticeÌýon government proposals for GPs.

0810
TheÌýForeign Secretary Jack Straw discusses relations with Tehran as a British businessman, who was arrested whilst on a sailing holiday with his family, is released after 11 days in Iranian custody.

0820
Ben Elton and Brigadier Ian Townsend, the Director General of the Royal British Legion, discuss why so many young people are reluctant to wear poppies.

0825
Sport with Garry Richardson.

0832
How do theÌýFrench and American models of integration compare? Daniela Relph reports from Washington on the American response to the French riots, while Mike Thomson reports from Paris.

0840
James Reynolds reports from outside the Palestinian presidential compound in Ramallah a year after the death of Yasser Arafat.

0847
Business with Rebecca Marston.

0850
Columnist Jonathan Freedland and Sir Martin Gilbert, author of "Churchill and America", on the enduring theme of European anti-Americanism.

0855
Political Editor of the Guardian Michael White and former ITN political editor John Sargeant compareÌýTony Blair withÌýJohn Major and Margaret Thatcher in their last few months in power.
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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.

Edward Stourton interviews the President of Mexico, Vincente Fox, and Tom Shannon, the United States Under Secretary of State with responsibility for the Americas, on the Summit of the Americas in Argentina and the prospect of a free trade agreement for the region.
President Vincente Fox.
Under Secretary of State Tom Shannon.
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.
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