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0709
Can the听NHS really be enjoying its "best year ever"? That is what the Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt claimed yesterday. We speak to Ann Leedham Smith, a regional director for the Royal College of Nursing, and Judith Wharley, who has been nursing in Birmingham for the past 29 years.

0713
A new body called the听Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre begins work today. We talk to Jim Gamble who will be running it.

0717
Hear our report from听Afghanistan as John Reid begins the second day of his trip to the country.

0722
The听business news with Greg Wood.

0725
The sports news with Steve May.

0732
A woman convicted of poisoning a child with salt has told the 大象传媒 that she will be appealing on the basis of new medical evidence. Hear our report.

0736
A look at the papers.

0742
David Cameron will show off his new听low carbon car today - a Lexus. Did he choose the right car? The motoring journalist Quentin Wilson gives us his opinion.

0745
An exhibition is opening in Oxford which charts the earliest days of radio. Hear our report.

0750
Thought For The Day with the religious commentator, Clifford Longley.

0755
We speak to the Defence Secretary,Dr John Reid, who is in Afghanistan.

0810
The health secretary Patricia Hewitt has claimed that this is the "best year ever" for the NHS. We speak to the heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub, Karol Sikora, a Professor of Cancer Medicine, and Dame Gill Morgan, from The NHS Confederation.听

0825
Greg Cullen has written a play called 'Paul Robeson Knew My Father' which is about Robeson's connections to Wales. We speak to him and Sir Willard White, who is singing in a tribute to the great man at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London tonight.

0828
The听sports news with Steve May.

0833
The Royal Shakespeare Company is beginning a year long performance of all Shakespeare's plays.听Jim Naughtie was there for the launch in Stratford-upon-Avon.听

0838
The听business update with Greg Wood.

0840
What are we to make of the latest Bin Laden tape? We talk to Dr Youssef Choueiri of Manchester University.

0843
The 1841 census, the first census to detail who lives where, is available online from today. We speak to Dr Sarah Richardson, a historian at Warwick University.

0847
Hear how our sports presenter Mary Rhodes did in yesterday's London Marathon.

0850
The American academic, Professor John Gillingham poses this question in his new book - "what is said of old soldiers also applies to bureaucracies that have had their day; thy never die, they just fade away. Will the same also be true of the European Union?". We speak to Professor Gillingham and Jacki Davies, of the European Policy Centre.

0855
Sir Willard White sings a song听in tribute to Paul Robeson.
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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, as听Nick 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 fails听John and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
Jim听introduces a very听strange sounding听
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
听- 23th听July 2004
Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
听- 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鈥檛 always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.

Don De Lillo Interview
The American writer Don de Lillo who wrote Underworld and is one of the biggest figures in modern American literature - has become a classic. A Penguin classic.听A great accolade, but usually one reserved for the dead. John interviewed him and asked what it's like to be thought of as a "classic"?
Mouloud Sihali Interview
Mouloud Sihali from Algeria, North Africa, is one of the suspected terrorists that听the Home Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the Home Secretary has deemed Sihali a threat to the Nation's security. Last year Mouloud Sihali was found not guilty of being a part of a so called released Ricin plot.
The nominations for the Oscars were announced yesterday, and The Constant Gardener is tipped for a place on the shortlist. It stars Ralph Fiennes who picked up an Evening Standard Film Award this week for his role in the film. Polly Billington spoke him and to the author, John le Carre, about the film and its chances at the Oscars. (31/01/06)
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, in听Rome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
Part 1
Part 2
First 大象传媒 interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaks听to our reporter Zubeida Malik about听his ordeal and how he听continues to听campaign 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.听First 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 to听 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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