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FridayÌý30th SeptemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0610
Labour has held onto the Commons seat of the late former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook in the by-election in Livingston. And they've also held onto the Scottish parliament seat of Cathcart in Glasgow.

0612
The CBI says it is losing confidence in employment tribunals as a means of settling disputes at work.

0615
The business news with Rebecca Marston.

0625
Sports news with Garry Richardson.

0635
The preparations for the negotiations betweenÌýTurkey and the European Union are in trouble.

0637
A judge in New York has ruled that previously unseen pictures of Iraqi inmates being abused by US troops inÌýAbu Ghraib prison should be published.

0639
The review of today's papers both from Britain and South Africa.

0641
Eighty per cent of the half a million people who have hepatitis C in this country do not know they are infected, according to doctors working in the field.

0645
Millions are making their way south acrossÌýSudan in the largest movement of people in recent history.

0648
Another bomb has detonated inÌýBaghdad this morning.

0650
The Commission for Racial Equality is ready to take action against the prison service for failing to deal with racism in prisons in England and Wales.

0655
TheÌýDisability Rights Commission says it is going to start getting tough with those who offer service to the public and have not yet made the necessary provisions for disabled access.

0716
The head of US Central Command, General John Abizaid, said broadcasting the photographs of Iraqi inmates of Abu Ghraib prison abused by US troops would be unhelpful. We also talk toÌýGeneral Janis Karpinski who was in charge of the prison at the time of the abuses.

0719
Our correspondent John Morrison talks about the narrow victory of Labour in the Lvingston constituency.

0724
Vivienne Nathanson, the head of ethics at the British Medical Association, looks at what doctors should do when they learn that an under-age child is having sex.

0729
Business update with Rebecca Marston.

0731
Austria has decided to block the scheduled start of membership negotiations with Turkey.

0738
Sports update with Garry Richardson.

0741
Tomorrow is the first day of the pheasant shooting season. The government minister responsible for the sport, Paul Greer and Jim Knight, the minister for Rural Affairs, look at whether this sport should also be banned.

0743
Dr Thomas Bruer of the Wildlife Conservation Trust talks about his observations of gorillas in the wild using tools to perform simple tasks.

0749
Our correspondent Sanchia Berg reports on the new TV series called "Rock School" .

0752
TheÌýthought for the day with the editor of the Tablet, Catherine Pepinster.

0756
What does the Conservative party supporter and a former treasurer, Lord Kalms, think about the party's leadership contest?

0810
Douglas Alexander, the Europe minister, talks about the divisive issue of bringing Turkey into the European Union.

0820
A professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, Steve Fuller and Geoff Mulgan, a former director of the Prime Minister's strategy unit, discuss how the world is changing more quickly than ever before.

0826
Sports update with Garry Richardson.

0832
What kind of a person should be arrested and tried if they set foot in Britain?

0839
ÌýBusiness update with Rebecca Marston.

0842
The playwright and actor Kwame Kwei Armah and Adriano Shaplin who teaches acting at Berkeley University in California discuss whether Shakespeare has become a millstone around the neck of British culture and creativity.

0850
Labour MPÌýStephen Pound and Matthew Norman of The Guardian look at when it is necessary for politicians to apologise.

0855
What is the future of newspaper leader columns? We talk to Sir Peter Stothard and Michael Gove, the Conservative MP.
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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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