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WednesdayÌý28th SeptemberÌý2005
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0610
The ban on British beef is about to be lifted.

0612
A group of Tory MPs have written to The Times to say they think Ken Clarke should be the next Tory leader.

0615
The Business News with Rebecca Marston.

0625
TheÌýSports News with Garry Richardson.

0635
Who should run our hospitals? That's the big issue at the Labour Party conference in Brighton today.

0637
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has produced a report onÌýdepression in children and adolescents.

0639
A look at the papers from Britain and Rome.

0642
Voters will go to the polls tomorrow in the Livingston by-electionÌý following the recent death of Robin Cook.

0645
A Japanese team has managed to take the first ever photograph of aÌýgiant squid of around 25 foot long.

0650
What can we expect fromÌý Ruth Kelly's speech at the Labour Party conference in Brighton today?

0716
Is the NHS being privatised? We talk to health Secretary Patricia Hewitt.

0719
Children and adolescents suffering depression should be given psychological therapy before being offered anti-depressants.

0724
More Business News with Rebecca Marston.

0729
How safe are our University campuses from the influence of extremism?

0736
Sylvia Hardy, the pensioner who was sent to jail for refusing to pay all her council tax, has been released early because someone paid the fine on her behalf.

0738
Garry Richardson with the Sports News.

0741
We take a look at theÌýhuman rightsÌý issues that Tony Blair addressed in his speech yesterday.

0743
The Welsh Labour MP Julie Morgan and artist David Hockney discuss whether we should have a ban on smoking in all public places?

0749
Thought For The Day with Rev Joel EdwardsÌý General Director of the Evangelical Alliance.

0755
It was announced yesterday that the Conservative Party's leadership election system will remain in the constituencies.Ìý Kenneth Clarke is in our Westminster studio.

0810
We talk to the Foreign SecretaryÌýJack Straw about what Tony Blair yesterday called "global terrorism".

0819
A CD of famous voices from the past has just been brought out by the British Library.

0823
TheÌýSports News with Garry Richardson.Ìý

0828
The former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke says his country should rent space in its interior desert to store the world's nuclear waste.

0841
The Business update with Rebecca Marston.

0847
We speak to the Prime Minister of Mozambique Luisa Dias Diogo and the New Statesman's Africa columnist Michaela Wrong about aid in Africa.

0852
Why is the number of woodland birds plummeting?

0855
We take a look atÌýTony Blair andÌýGordon Brown'sÌýspeechesÌý during the Labour Party conference.
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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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