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Choose an audio clipÌýyou would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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0607 |
Scientists working for the Medical Research Council have announced the results of their tests on one of the viruses taken from theÌýTurkish bird fluÌýcases. |
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0609 |
The two men who admitted the rape and murder of theÌýbackpacker Katherine Horton in Thailand are being sentenced today. |
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0615 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Rebecca Marston. |
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0625 |
TheÌýsports newsÌýwith Gary Richardson. |
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0630 |
The Foreign Office minister Kim Howells has described how he came to the decision to clear Paul Reeve to work in a school when he was anÌýeducation minister last year. Our political correspondent, Gary O'Donohue, joins us. |
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0635 |
The German chancellorÌýAngela Merkel is making her first trip to Washington since taking office. |
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0638 |
Now that the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany have said that their negotiations withÌýIran over its nuclear programme have reached "a dead end", what happens next? |
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0645 |
A review ofÌýtoday's papers in the UK and Seoul. |
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0650 |
A look at the events of Yesterday In Parliament. |
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0653 |
Professor Chris Shaw, a member of the team which has been given permission to experiment with human cloning to study motor neurone disease, has said scientists should consider using animal eggs as hosts to create human cells for research. |
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0657 |
The European Parliament is going to investigation the American policy ofÌý"extraordinary rendition" in Europe. Elmar Brock, the German MEP, chairs the parliament's foreign affairs committee. |
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0709 |
Zaki Badawi, principal of the Muslim College in London, talks about the stampede during this years Hajj in Saudi Arabia, in which at least 345 people were killed.
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0712 |
Seven weeks from today we'll know who's going to lead the Liberal Demcrats. Sir Menzies Campbell, Simon Hughes and Mark Oaten are the three MPsÌýwho have joined the leadership race, but it looks as if there will be at least one other runner alongside them. The MP for Eastleigh, Chris Huhne, joins us. |
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0715 |
The business news with Rebecca Marston. |
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0725 |
As the West searches for a response to Iran's resumption of its nuclear programme, one sanction that has been suggested is cutting off sporting ties. The Conservative MP and former shadow foreign secretary, Michael Ancram, joins the programme. |
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0728 |
The sports news with Gary Richardson. |
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0732 |
Different European Union countries have been developing different mechanisms for dealing with terrorism suspects. Franco Frattini, the EU Justice Affairs commissioner, talks about whether there should be a more uniform approach. |
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0738 |
George Saunders,Ìýadmired by the likes of Thomas Pynchon, Tobias Wolff and Jay McInerney, is one ofÌý a new generation of American short story writers. We hear a taster of one of his short stories. |
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0745 |
Thought for the day with the Righ Reverend Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford. |
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0750 |
Child protection consultant, Mike Haimes, and Donald Findlater, the deputy director of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a child protection charity, talk about the controversy surrounding the appointment of a sex offender as a teacher. |
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0810 |
The effort to prevent Iran from resuming its nuclear programme by diplomatic means has reached a dead end, according to the foreign ministers of Britain, Germany and France. So what happens next? The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, talks to the programme. |
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0821 |
London Zoo is just completing its annual stocktake during which every bird, beast, bug and fish is counted. The zoo is home to 600 different species and tens of thousands of creatures. So how exactly do you keep count of them all? |
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0826 |
The sports news with Gary Richardson. |
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0830 |
There isÌýa paper in the British Medical Journal arguing that cancer patients are suffering because many of our radiotherapy departments are heavily overstretched. We are joined by the man who wrote it, David Dodwell of Cookridge Hospital in Leeds, and Professor Mike Richards, the Department of Health's National Director of Cancer. |
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0833 |
The Dutch Government will announce over the next few weeks whether it is to make it a crime to wear traditionalÌý islamic dress which covers the face apart from the eyes. |
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0845 |
The Economist has published details of a map which might prove that the Chinese Admiral Zheng He reached America before Christopher Columbus.ÌýStephen Fay wrote the piece. |
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0850 |
The business news with Rebecca Marston. |
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0853 |
The latest outbreak ofÌýbird flu in Turkey is clearly a major challenge for vets and public health officials, but it is also a big blow for the local tourist industry. Last year 21 million people visited Turkey, a trade worth 10 billion pounds. |
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0855 |
Former SAS Soldier, Andy McNab, and James Meek, the award winning war correspondent with the Guardian, discuss Sam Mendes' new film, Jarhead. |
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0857 |
The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is going to Washington today. The former Clinton administration official,ÌýRon Asmus, and Michael Sturmer of Die Welt Newspaper in Germany, discuss the visit |
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Some of Our Less Memorable Moments
These infamous sound clips have risen from the Today vaults again to haunt our newsreaders and presenters. Enjoy!
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Can of what John?
John gets confused over the expression, 'opened a can of worms.'
- 18th March 2005 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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When the technology failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004 |
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Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 25th October 2003 |
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Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002 |
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Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster. |
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What is Charlotte Green giggling about?
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John and Jim share a joke about the weather? |
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We don’t always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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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 |
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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. |
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Justin Webb interviews Walter Cronkite who pays tribute to Dan Rather, a 73 year old news presenter in America who is retiring after 24 years.
(10/03/05) |
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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). |
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, about the recent increase of religious violence in Nigeria.
(19/05/04) |
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John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
(03/05/04). |
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Jim Naughtie interviews Bob Woodward.ÌýFirst Watergate, now a controversial book into events in the White House pre-Iraq war.
(20/04/04).
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Sarah Montague interviews Paul Burrell.
The former royal butler denies betraying Diana, Princess of Wales, insisting his controversial new book was "a loving tribute".
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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. |
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Hillary Clinton talks toÌýJamesÌýNaughtie
Her questions surrounding theÌýWhite House handling of the Iraq war, plus her years with Bill in that stately building. |
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Mark Coles interviews Damien Hirst
......about his new exhibition in the small Slovenian capital Ljubljana, including drawings from his teenage years. |
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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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