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Monday 30thÌýJanuary 2006Ìý
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0607
European foreign minister are talking aboutÌýHamas today; and an Iranian official is arriving in Brussels for discussions about Teheran's nuclear programme.

0609
What will happen now in the trial forÌýSaddam Hussein after the dramatic events of the weekend?

0615
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood.

0626
TheÌýsportsÌýnews with Steve May.

0632
A government report is painting an alarming picture of the state of the Arctic icecap, and what its disintegration may mean.

0634
The Conservative party leader, David Cameron, is giving us his vision of the big picture today.

0637
The government'sÌýhealthcare plan for England proposes fundamental changes in the way patients are offered advice and treatment.

0640
A review ofÌýtoday's papers in the UK and Poland.

0645
The results of an investigation in Serbia into the whereabouts of the former Bosnian Serb General, Ratko Mladic, are being made public. Nick Hawton, has been given the first interview by a British journalist to the newly appointed Defence Minister in Serbia, Zoran Stankovic.

0650
The Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission, Bert Massie, is making a big speech today on discrimination against disabled people.

0654
Food companies are being accused today of targeting children in junk food advertising.We're joined by the director of the Food Advertising Unit, Jeremy Preston, and Profesoor Philip James, chairman of the International Obesity Task.

0709
What is happening to the arctic icecap, and why?ÌýDr Myles AllenÌýis lecturer is atmopsheric physics at Oxford University tells us what the implications are for policy in the industrialised world.

0712
Did some of the police involved in the Stockwell tube shooting in July deliberately falsify documents to protect themselves?ÌýGareth Pierce is the solicitor for the family of Jean Charles de Menezes.

0717
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood.

0720
European foreign ministers are grappling with the problems thrown up by theÌývictory of Hamas in the Palestinian election. Mike Gapes is Labour chairman of the foreign affairs select committee.

0724
Shadow foreign secretary William Hague will travel to Brussels this week in a bid to solve the "complex jigsaw" of the Conservative Party's plan to form a new party grouping in the European Parliament.

0727
TheÌýsports news with Steve May

0730
The Health Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, talks about the government's healthcare plan for England, which proposes fundamental changes in the way patients are offered advice and treatment.

0738
There's new evidence about how anxious government was in the seventies over North Sea oil, and in particular the possibility of nationalist success in Scotland, which the Treasury believed could have a series effect on the British economy.

0745
Thought for the Day withÌýClifford Longley, Religious Commentator.

0750
David Cameron is setting out his big picture vision for the future in a speech to the think tank Demos today. Lord Tebbit, and Oliver Letwin, the Chairman of the Conservative Party's policy review, talk to us.

0810
Just how much danger are we in from climate change? It's the question politicians need to know, to decide how far and how fast they change the way we run the industrialised world. We talk to the Environment Secretary, Margaret Beckett.

0820
Daisy Goodwin, who had edited a number of poetry anthologies, says poetry is going the way of Morris Dancing, becoming an obscure tradition of interest to very few people.

0826
TheÌýsports news with Steve May.

0830
Human rights lawyer, Michael Mansfield, and Ali al Bayati, a counsellor at the Iraqi embassy, discuss the drama unfolding at the trial of Saddam Hussein.

0832
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood.

0843
There's a television series about the Inquisition being broadcast on UKTV tonight which is based on research into files the Vatican released in 1998.ÌýDavid Rabinovitch is the programme's producer.

0849
Four foreign aid workers held hostage by Nigerian rebels for over a fortnight have been released. The British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Richard Gosney, tells the programmeÌý about how he learnt of their release.

0854
Police and social services in Glasgow are holding talks today, following the case of an 11-year-old girl being treated for heroin abuse. The local Labour MP, Ian Davidson, and Alistair Ramsay, the director of Scotland Against Drugs, speak to the programme.

0856
The Conservative party health spokesman, Andrew Lansley, and Dr Hamish Meldrum, Chairman of the GPs committee at the BMA, discuss the government's new proposals on health care in England.

0858
Daisy Goodwin joins us again with the .
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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 who 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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