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MondayÌý15thÌýAugustÌý2005
NB: we are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.

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0607
Malcolm Brabant in Athens has the latestÌýon the investigation into Greece's worst ever air crash.

0609
Business leaders sayÌýtheÌýUK economy will be damagedÌýunless more students study science and languages. More from Branwen Jeffreys.

0615
The CBI slams the government for failing small businesses. Nick Cosgrove has the business news.

0628
Can EnglandÌýtake all 10 Australian wickets to win the third Ashes Test? Garry Richardson with the sports news.

0632
Israel begins the Gaza strip pull-out. James Reynolds reports fromÌýNeve Dekalim, the biggest settlement in area.

0635
Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi,Ìýhas again apologised for his country's actions in World War II. Chris Hogg has the details.

0637
Mike Wooldridge in BaghdadÌýonÌýwhether the teamÌýdrawing up a new constitution for Iraq will meet tonight's deadline.

0639
British Airways saysÌýflights are nearly back to normalÌýafter a ground staff strike. Stephen Cape finds out.

0640
A review of today's papers in the UK and Australia.

0647
A family of failed asylum seekers faceÌýeviction from their home underÌýaÌýnew governmentÌý immigration policy. Kim Catcheside investigates.

0651
Find out theÌýshortlist for theÌýGreatest Painting in Britain .

0655
Canon Andrew White, the Anglican priest for Iraq, on the forthcoming Iraqi constitution.

0709
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas talks to us about Israel's pullout from Gaza.

0714
Bob Walker in Staffordshire talksÌýto veterans markingÌýtheÌý60th anniversary of the end of the war in Japan.

0722
What caused theÌýCypriotÌýairliner to crash yesterday? We speak to Akrivos Tsolakis of theÌýGreek Air Accident investigating Committee.

0725
British Gas is to create the first mass market fuel cell powered domestic boiler. More from Nick Cosgrove.

0726
Garry Richardson has the latest sports news.

0733
Does the NHS need a radical overhaul? Former health secretaryÌýFrank Dobson and Tory MP Nick Herbert discuss.

0744
What is the nation's Greatest painting? We hear from our panel,Ìýart critic Martin Gayford, dancer Deborah BullÌýand artist Jonathan Yeo.

0748
Thought for the day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.

0751
Japan's ambassador to Britain, Yoshiji Nogami andÌýDavid Johnson, deputy chief of mission at the US Embassy in London, on the anniversary of VJ Day.

0810
Israel's Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom tells us why he thinks the future of the peace process is now in the hands of the Palestinians.

0821
Mike Thomson talks to the members of the legendary Cuban band Buena Vista Social Club, a week after the death of theirÌýsinger Ibrahim Ferrer.

0827
Garry Richardson with more sports news.

0834
Find out whetherÌýtheÌýgreat Scottish paintingÌý"Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch" was actually done by a Frenchman.

0842
Apparently,ÌýyourÌýjunk could be worth a lot ofÌý money. Nick Cosgrove tells us more.

0845
Is John Humphrys bad for you? Hear why women up and down the country are being urged to end their relationship with him.

0850
How important it is that films are historically accurate? Historian Dr Saul David and film critic Quentin Cooper discuss.

0854
Jeremy Bowen with an update onÌýIsrael's withdrawal fromÌýGaza.
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Thought for the Day

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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.

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 ±«Óãtv 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.

Zubeida Malik talked to Prince Turki Al Faisal - the new Saudi Ambassador to Britain before the war in Iraq
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