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FridayÌý28th OctoberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
Israel has launched missile strikes on Gaza. Matthew Price has the latest.

0609
AÌýUS nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is to be stationed in JapanÌýfor the first time. More from Chris Hogg.

0615
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) tightens its grip onÌýhedge funds. Details from Rebecca Marston.

0626
Andy Murray reaches the last eight at the Swiss Indoors. Garry Richardson reports.

0631
How damaging is the withdrawal of the US Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers for President Bush? Justin Webb tells us.

0634
Tory David Davis says he can cut our taxes. Do his sums really add up? Gary O'Donoghue finds out.

0638
Frances Harrison on Tony Blair's reaction toÌýthe Iranian leader's comments that Israel "should be wiped off the map".

0639
A review of today's papers in the UK and Italy.

0645
Rachel Hooper looks at events Yesterday in Parliament.

0651
CouldÌýsupermarkets face a new inquiry into their impact on the grocery market? We ask the New Economics Foundation's Andrew Simms.

0654
The RSPB's Graham Wynne on why he wants the EU's temporary ban on live wild bird imports to be permanent.

0709
US congressman Chris Shays and Lib Dem Sir Menzies Campbell onÌýthe Iranian president's remarks aboutÌýIsrael.

0714
Former Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork and columnist Andrew Sullivan onÌýthe Harriet Miers debacle.

0718
OurÌýCitizens' Jury -Ìýset up toÌýtackle problems politicians struggle with daily -Ìýfollow-up on their previous recommendations.

0720
Advertising firm WPP has just released its latest profit figures. Rebecca Marston has more.

0725
Garry Richardson with the latest sports news.

0732
Is the Tory proposedÌýProperty Protection Bill necessary? We talk to Tory Anne McIntosh and ±«Óãtv Office Minister Fiona Mactaggart.

0743
CanÌý"Riot" - aÌýplayÌýabout Britain'sÌýrace riot in 1930 - teach us anything about racial tension?ÌýLuke Walton reports.

0746
Thought for the day with Dr Mona Siddiqui, head of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow.

0748
We talk to ConservativeÌýDavid Davis about his tax plans.ÌýEvan Davis looks at the figures behind the cuts.

0810
We speak toÌýthe US state department'sÌýColeen Graffy,andÌýex-Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal about President Bush's woes.

0823
Mary Rhodes on how to make the change from sedentary sports reporter to marathon runner in just six months.

0829
Garry Richardson with the sports news.

0835
Is Tory leadership hopeful David Cameron a neo-con? Iain Watson investigates.

0839
Rebecca Marston has the business news.

0842
Why does musician Damon Albarn thinks London is spoilt when it comes to big arts events? Mark Coles reports.

0848
Is theÌýShakespeare that we all know an imposter? We ask Dr Tarny Cooper ofÌýthe National Portrait Gallery.

0850
Hear our discussion on whetherÌýTV isÌýtaking liberties with Bleak House by including a character who isn't in the Dickens novel.

0855
What constitutesÌý"food" under aÌýnew governmentÌýproposal? Pub landlord Norman Balon and UCL's Professor Grayling.
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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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