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WednesdayÌý31th May 2006.
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Today's briefing hour: Catch up on the day's news, sport and business.Ìý
0600-0630
0630-0700

0709
Will doctors take to extending theÌýchoice of hospitals available to each NHS patient in England?ÌýFrom the Royal College of Surgeons, Bernard Ribeiro.

0717
Fox's biscuits are up for sale. Greg Wood has theÌýbusiness news.

0722
Iraqi prime minister Nuri al Maliki flies to Basra today where Shi'ite power struggles areÌýadding to a deterioration of security. Colonel David Cullen.

0725
Cleveland Police Authority is making the first legal challenge against controversial plans to merge police forces. Their chairman Dave McLuckie.

0730
England shone in a friendly match against Hungary last night. Garry Richardson has the sporting news.

0735
Australian PM Alexander Downer explains his decision to send peace keepers to East Timor to support president Xanana Gusmao's seizure of emergency powers in the face of continuing violence.Ìý

0739
Are informalÌýroadside shrines to those killed in road traffic accidents, a sign of loss, a sign of warning or a dangerous distraction to drivers?

0742
Thought for the Day from the Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks.

0745
Tax Credits were designed to help those on low incomes, but for the second year running, many of the recipients will face a large bill due to bureaucratic mistakes.

0810
TheÌýUS military is being accused of covering up a massacre in Haditha, by a group of its marines.ÌýColonel Janis Karpinski is a former Military Police Commander at Abu Ghraib prison. Ann Clwyd is Britain's human rights envoy to Iraq.

0820
Since 1947 theÌýDoomsday Clock has been a potent symbol of the Cold War, but is a nuclear doomsday still the greatest threat to humanity?

0826
Sporting news from Garry Richardson.

0830
How did an ashtray in an RAF mess help win the Falklands War? Rowland White is the Author of 'Vulcan 607' and Sir Michael Knight commanded the Vulcan squadrons in 1982.

0835
Greg Wood has theÌýbusiness news.

0840
Our correspondent Jonathan Head is in Dili, capital of East Timor, where violence and looting have reached such a scale that Australia has sent in peace keepers in an attempt to assist President Gusmao's seizure of emergency powers.

0845
Amnesty International today released some striking satellite images which show the destruction of a large community in Zimbabwe. Simeon Mawanza is from Amnesty.

0850
Niall Dickson is the chief executive of the health think tank The Kings Fund. What do they make of the government's decision to extendÌýNHS patient choice across the country?

0855
Is being a workaholic a good thing? Will Hutton is an author and Chief Executive of the World Foundation and Chris Philp, newly elected conservative councillorÌýwas Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2003.
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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.
Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster.
Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster.
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.

Don De Lillo Interview
The American writer Don de Lillo who wrote Underworld and is one of the biggest figures in modern American literature - has become a classic. A Penguin classic.ÌýA great accolade, but usually one reserved for the dead. John interviewed him and asked what it's like to be thought of as a "classic"?
Mouloud Sihali Interview
Mouloud Sihali from Algeria, North Africa, is one of the suspected terrorists thatÌýthe ±«Óãtv Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the ±«Óãtv Secretary has deemed Sihali a threat to the Nation's security. Last year Mouloud Sihali was found not guilty of being a part of a so called released Ricin plot.
The nominations for the Oscars were announced yesterday, and The Constant Gardener is tipped for a place on the shortlist. It stars Ralph Fiennes who picked up an Evening Standard Film Award this week for his role in the film. Polly Billington spoke him and to the author, John le Carre, about the film and its chances at the Oscars. (31/01/06)
Edward Stourton interviews the President of Mexico, Vincente Fox, and Tom Shannon, the United States Under Secretary of State with responsibility for the Americas, on the Summit of the Americas in Argentina and the prospect of a free trade agreement for the region.
President Vincente Fox.
Under Secretary of State Tom Shannon.
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 who 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.
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