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FridayÌý25thÌýNovemberÌý2005
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0607
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ has turned up evidence of serious failings in the way a new computerisedÌýcall system forÌýbenefit claimants is working. Kim Catcheside has more.

0609
The city of Harbin in China has been without water for three days afterÌýsupplies were contaminated by a benzene leak. Louisa Lim is there.

0615
TheÌýbusiness news with Rebecca Marston.

0626
TheÌýsports news with Mary Rhodes.

0632
The Chancellor spoke aboutÌýpensions among other things to the IOD last night. Garry O' Donoghue is our political correspondent.

0634
There's a formal ceremony to mark the opening ofÌýthe Rafah crossing between the Gaza strip and Egypt today. Alan Johnston reports.

0636
Colin Campbell is at the hospital in London whereÌýGeorge Best is being treated.

0639
A look atÌýthe papers from Britain and Malaysia.

0644
We take a look at the events of Yesterday in Parliament.

0650
The biennial get-together of theÌýleaders of the Commonwealth is beginning in Malta today.ÌýOur world affairs correspondent, Mike Wooldridge.

0653
TheÌýHousing Corporation has published a survey showing millions of people don't have a bank account. It's chief executive Jon Rouse joins us

0709
Did George Bush really want to bomb Al Jazeera? The Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle is putting down an early day motion and tells us more.

0712
Our reporter Luke Walton has been out on the town in the in Newcastle...did he survive the night?

0717
TheÌýbusiness news with Rebecca Marston.

0720
The failingsÌýofÌýa new computerised call system for benefit claimants. Mark Serwotka of the Public and Commercial Services.

0723
It's been a month since the CPS clearedÌýtwo Metropolitan police officers accused of killing Harry Stanley. The wife of one those officers, Alison Fagan, has been talking to our reporter, Zubeida Malik.

0727
TheÌýsports news with Mary Rhodes.

0734
We hear aboutÌýa tour guide for paedophiles that's being offered for sale on the web.

0743
The writerÌýHunter Davies on the life of George Best.Ìý

0746
Reverend Dr Alan Billings, Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University with Thought for the Day.

0749
It's now thought that about a hundred tonnes of poisonous chemicals leaked into the Songhua River in China. We talk to Darrel Malek-Wylie from the Sierra Club and Sir Jonathan Porritt, chair of the Sustainable Development Commission.

0810
Tory leaderÌýMichael Howard on the Chancellor's decisions about how to reform the state pension system.

0821
What would the founders of the temperance movement make of our newÌý24-hour drinking culture.

0827
MoreÌýsports news from Mary Rhodes.

0832
We reflect on an extra-ordinary week in Israeli politics.

0839
George Best is still breathing with the help of a ventilator. We are joined by consultant Professor Roger Williams.

0842
AÌýbusiness update with Rebecca Marston.

0847
TheÌýShadow Commission for Africa are to publish a report called "African Civil Society's agenda for Regenerating Africa". Mary Robinson is a former UN high commissioner for human rights.

0851
TheÌýpeople of Chechnya go to the polls this weekend to elect a new parliament - the first there since Russian troops moved back in six years ago. Steve Rosenberg reports.

0855
The pioneeringÌýleader in stem cloning, Professor Hwang Woo-suk resigned yesterday, after itÌýemerged that someÌýeggs he had used in his work had been donated by female researchers on his team. We talk toÌýDr Peter BraudeÌýfrom Kings College London.
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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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