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FridayÌý14th OctoberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
Tent Cities are being set up in Pakistan.ÌýThe latest news from the devastated region.

0609
TheÌýRussian city of Nalchik hasÌýbeenÌýsealed off by security forces after it was attacked by militants in co-ordinated raids. It's thought that some gun-men remain.ÌýÌý

0615
Business news from Rebecca Marston.ÌýÌý

0626
Sports news from Steve May.ÌýÌý

0632
Europe's leading vets will meet today to discuss Bird Flu.Ìý

0635
David Cameron continues to remain silent on the matter of past drug use.

0637
What doesÌýglobal warming mean to Inuit's who live on the Arctic ice cap?Ìý

0640
Today's papers come from the UK and Guatemala.Ìý

0645
Yesterday in Parliament is summarised by Rachel Hooper.

0649
We'll hear the court's judgement today on whether the Government and the then transport secretary Stephen Byers abused their powers when they putÌýRailtrack into administration in 2001.

0654
Last night wasÌýLady Thatcher's 80th birthday party.

0709
What effect mightÌýDavid Cameron's silence over past drug use have on his leadership bid? Iain Watson gives us an overview and Conservative MP John Gummer gives an insight.Ìý

0716
Professor of Virology John Oxford explains the realities behind theÌýBird Flu panic.ÌýÌý

0721
Business news from Rebecca Marston.Ìý

0723
It's almost a week since anÌýearthquake devastated Pakistan and millions of people have been left desperatelyÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý in need of the most fundamentalÌýresources. Our reporter Matthew Grant is in Kashmir.

0726
Sports news from Steve May.

0732
A report published last month made the shocking claim that the Arctic ice cap could disappear by the end of the century. Science correspondent Tom Feilden went to Baffin Island to see how the Inuit population is coping with the reality of a melting permafrost.ÌýÌý

0745
Ely Cathedral is set to break with it's tradition of one thousand years and set up a choir for girls.ÌýÌý

0748
Thought For The Day from Catherine Pepinster.Ìý

0751
The Bishop of Southwark, The Right Reverend Tom Butler believes that government plans to close downÌýplaces of worship used by extremists are ill advised.

0810
Should we be worried about Bird Flu? Is enough being done to protect us? Andrew Lansley and David Salisbury discuss.

0825
The thirty-thirdÌýAsterix album goes on sale today and the Belgians are very excited.Ìý

0831
President Bush's decision to fill the vacant seat of the supreme court with his close friend Harriet Miers has involved him in an increasingly rancorous political battle.Ìý

0831
Rebecca Marston has theÌýbusiness news.

0837
Iraqis will vote on theirÌýnew constitution in a referendum tomorrow.Ìý

0844
John Harrison from RocheÌýexplainsÌýwhyÌýthe compnayÌýwill continue to protect its exclusive licenceÌý toÌýmakeÌýtamiflu, the main antiviral against bird flu.

0847
DoesÌýDaytime TV have much to recommend it? Vanessa Feltz and Jim Shelley discuss.Ìý

0855
Keith Hellawell and Peter Lilly discuss whether David Cameron's past life is any of our business.Ìý
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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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