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TuesdayÌý27th SeptemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0610
The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has won an important battle in his campaign to hang on to his party leadership.

0612
The Conservative Party will be announcing new rules for electing their party leader.

0615
TheÌýBusiness News with Rebecca Marston.

0625
TheÌýSports News with Steve May.

0635
Tony Blair is due to make his big speech at the Labour Party conference in Brighton today.

0637
General John de Chastelain is going to talk directly to the Democratic Unionists today about his announcement on the decommissioning of IRA weapons.

0639
What are the effects of the Gate Gourmet (the British Airways catering company) dispute?

0642
A look at the papers from Britain and India.

0645
There is a meeting today to decide if the Aylesbury council estate in South London, which Tony Blair visited when he first came to power, will be demolished.

0650
TheÌýEuropean Space Agency has found two asteroids it wants to use for target practice.

0655
The European Commission is promising a new drive to cut red tape from Brussels.

0716
The implications of theÌýGate Gourmet dispute have caused an angry debate at the Labour Party conference.

0719
The Democratic Unionists are not convinced by General John de Chastelain's statement about the decommissioning of IRA weapons.

0724
The Business News with Rebecca Marston.

0729
The former Tory leader Iain Duncan-Smith has given a speech in Washington urging Britain and America not to get cold feetÌýabout their activitesÌýIraq.

0736
The results of a six-month trial ofÌýrecycled "glass sand" are being released this morning.

0738
TheÌýSports News with Steve May.

0741
How longÌýwill Blair be able to "defy" Brown and hold on to leadership?

0743
The playÌý'Waiting for Gordo' opened in Brighton last night. Back in July the author Richard Heller asked for ideas from Today Programme listeners.

0749
Thought For The Day with Dr Indarjit Singh - the Editor of the Sikh Messenger.

0755
The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is struggling to remain in power.

0810
0810 Blair will out line in his speech today how he plans to bring in a "respect agenda". But what does "respect" mean and is it the job ofÌýour politicians to do something about it?

0819
MoreÌýSports News from Steve May.

0823
We talk to the former Tory Party Treasurer Michael Ashcroft about his autobiography called 'Dirty Politics, Dirty Times'.Ìý

0828
Rebecca Marston with the Business Update.

0841
More discussion on the difficult conference speech Tony Blair is due to make today.

0847
It is reported that Rome is preparing to publish a document which would bar gay men from entering the priesthood.

0852
Peter Mandelson and Ed Balls talk about Gordon Brown's possible route to leadership.
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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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