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FridayÌý7th OctoberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
The authorities are warning of a potential terrorist attack on the New York subway.

0609
The political wrangling to appoint aÌýGerman Chancellor continues.

0615
Business with Rebecca Marston.

0626
SportsÌýnews with Steve May.

0636
Encouraging results from trials suggest a possibleÌýcure for cervical cancer has been found.

0639
TheÌýHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is reviewing payments made for egg and sperm donations.

0642
Iraq votes on a new constitution next week - but will most Iraqis have seen it by then?

0645
An independent review is being conducted into the role ofÌýexpert witnesses in court cases.

0648
A review ofÌýtoday's papers in the UK and Spain.

0651
Professor Desmond O'Neill of Trinity College Dublin, believes pedestrians should be warned of the dangersÌýposed byÌýSports Utility Vehicles (SUVs).

0653
Who is "Slab" Murphy? Widely believed to be the head of the IRA, he's linked to 250 properties raided by Manchester police yesterday.

0656
DoÌýmanners matter?ÌýTo markÌýthe National Day of Courtesy, we are joined by the Spectator's authority on etiquette, Mary Killen.

0709
Russ Knocke, Press Secretary for the US Department of ±«Óãtvland Security,Ìýdiscusses theÌýterrorist threat to the New York subway.

0715
Angela McNab, Chief Executice of the HFEA, explains why they have concluded that egg and sperm donors should not be paid.

0718
Business with Rebecca Marston.

0720
Senior police officers and experts from around the world attend a conference in London today on "Critical Incident Policing", where issues connected to violent confrontations which could end up with lethal force being used, will be discussed. Zubeida Malik reports.

0723
A year after the High Court ruled that a hospital needn't resuscitate the seriously ill baby Charlotte Wyatt, she is recovering well. Her father Darren Watts and Prof Sir Alan Craft, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics, debate the ruling which is still in place.

0727
Sports update with Steve May.

0732
Has a vaccine againstÌýcervical cancer been found? Dr Eliav Barr, head of Clinical Development at Merck and Dr Anne Swarewski of Cancer Research UK join us.

0740
Celebrated children's illustratorÌý Quentin Blake discusses the new book of Roald Dahl poems.

0745
Thought for the Day; Catherine Pepinster, Editor of "The Tablet".

0750
Des Browne, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, defends the failure to cut Civil Service jobs.

0810
Former Chief of the Defence Staff Lord Boyce and Robert Fox, Defence Correspondent for the Evening Standard, discuss the effect of media coverage on the moraleÌýamongst troops in Iraq.

0820
On the National Day of Courtesy, Richard Tomkins of the Financial Times and Mary Killen, etiquette expert at the Spectator, discuss modern manners.

0826
Sports news with Steve May.

0831
Political columnist Rachel Sylvester bemoans the lack ofÌýwomen in the Tory leadership contest. Theresa May and Anne Widdecombe discuss the issue.

0839
Business with Rebecca Marston.

0843
Bishop Luiz Flavio Cappio, who has been on hunger strike for a fortnight to protest against government policy in Brazil, finally ended his protest last night when the policy was changed.

0846
Ian Kelly, author of a new biography of Beau Brummell, proposes a "dress up friday" to salvage the nation's sartorial standards. Writer and political activist John O'Farrell disagrees.

0852
Following David Davis' much analysed speech, former Tory MP and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth and Deborah Mattinson, who runs the Opinion Leader Research Organisation, discuss the need for politicians to be great orators.
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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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