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Tuesday 30thÌýAugustÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, has said he'll break the logjam with china over textile imports:Ìýbut how can it be done?

0609
A four month old baby has died after anÌýarson attack Ìýon a house in Newcastle.

0615
Greg Wood has the business news.

0626
Sports news from Mary Rhodes.

0632
Hurricane Katrina has been battering the gulf coast of America outside New Orleans since yesterday.

0634
The secretary general of the Arab League says the Iraq constitution is a recipe for chaos.

0637
The possession of violent and abusiveÌýpornography may become a new offence.

0639
The look at today's newspapers in both Britain and France.

0642
Peter Hardstaff, a director of the charity the World Development Movement, talks about privatisation of the water system in Sierra Leone.

0647
Coral reefs were not as badly damaged as had been expected by the Asian tsunami.

0650
We know aboutÌýChinese trousers and bras but is there a shoe crisis still to come?

0655
John Barrick, a chief executive of the Stroke Association, talks about how strokes could be prevented.

0709
WholeÌýneighbourhoods have been submerged and at least 55 people have died due to hurricane Katrina.

0713
Business update with Greg Wood.

0718
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa county in Arizona has been to the streets of London to see what people thought of his ideas about how to deal with crime.

0724
Mary Rhodes has the latestÌýsports news.

0731
The Government is considering banning violent and abusive pornography on the internet.

0744
The Radio 4 programme, From Our Own Correspondent, celebrates its 50th anniversary.

0747
The thought for the day with Rev Angela Tilby, the vice principal at Westcott House in Cambridge.

0750
Who is to be blamed for the manufacturing crisis in China?

0810
ÌýWe speak toÌýJack Straw about the Iraqi Constitution and the future of the country.

0824
Mary Rhodes with theÌýsports update.

0827
Clare Asquith discusses her claims that Shakespeare's plays are riddled with hidden catholic messages.

0835
Greg Wood withÌýthe business news update.

0843
Zbigbiew Brzezinski, former national security adviser at the White House, discusses howÌýthe strikes in Poland affected communism in Eastern Europe.

0848
Our correspondent Tom Feilden looks at some of the interventions on offer to treat autism.

0852
Antony Seldon and Peter Oborne discuss Tony Blair's plans now that he has returned from his holiday.
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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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