 | |
|
 | | | | | | Choose an audio clipÌýyou would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
| | |  |
0709 | There's been something of a coup for Customs at Dover by the sound of it - Jake Lynch is our reporter there. | | | |  |
0712 | WhyÌýdid Alastair Campbell decide to go before the Hutton inquiry is over? Jon Smith is the Political Editor for the Press Association and Chairman of the Parliamentary lobby. | | |
0716 | The Today Programme is being broadcast from London and Torquay. Ed Stourton is at the Riviera Centre and has been talking to Jan Siegada, who's the head of tourism for the English Riviera Tourist Board. | | |
0720 | One of the people killed by that big car bomb in Iraq yesterday was Ayatollah Al-Hakim, one of the most important Shia leaders in Iraq. Dr Sahib Al-Hakaim is his first cousin. | | |
0732 | The exact cause of the power cuts that brought London to a halt on Thursday evening will not be known for several weeks. But what many experts are saying is that the underlying cause is simply not enough money being invested in the systemÌý- and it's not justÌýLondon.Ìý Lee Jones lives in Cuddington Cheshire. | | |
0745 | Some slightly unlikely celebrity is heading Torquay's way with a premier just up the road at Paignton this week of a film called Blackball which tells the story of a lawn bowling champion, banned from the game for the sort of bad behaviour more usually associated with volatile tennis stars of the John MacEnroe variety. At the Riviera Centre is the comedian Mel SmithÌýwho made the filmÌýand Griff Sanders, who was the model for the central character.
| | |
0748 | The future of the fishing industry stirs deep passions in the south west. This year fishermen here are complaining about what they say is an especially vivid illustration of what's wrong with the way the industry is regulated.ÌýIt seems they areÌýbeing forced to dump huge quantities of dead fish back in the sea because of the EU quota system. Rick Smith, the Managing Director of Brixham Trawler Agents and the fisheries minister Ben Bradshaw.
| | | | |
0810 | Yesterday Alastair Campbell announced his resignation - perhaps many people expected he would leaveÌýDowning StreetÌýonce the Hutton Inquiry had finished. The Liberal Democrat party chairman Mark Oaten says the timing was not as innocent as it was portrayed. | | |
0822 | ListenerÌýlettersÌý-ÌýJohn Humphrys and Ed Stourton look at whether patients should be fined for missing their doctors appointments,ÌýLondon's power cut this weekÌýandÌýwhy is Bombay now being called Mumbai. | | |
0836 | The problems in Iraq continueÌý- a massive car bomb has killed at least 80 people including the Shia Muslim religious leader and another explosion went off near the British army's headquarters.Ìý The Armed Forces Minister, Adam Ingram. | | |
0840 | Alison Roper has a review of today's papers. | | |
0845 | The problems with tourism -Ìýearlier in the programme weÌýtalked about a few of the problems associated with a seaside economy.Ìý We discuss this with our audience at the Riviera Centre in Torquay - Adrian Sanders, the MP for Torbay, Tony Wright, the Chief Executive of Visit Britain, and Michael Morpurgo, owner of the City Kids Farm. | | |
0850 | Life after Alastair Campbell - Rory Bremner and Simon Hoggart. | | |
| | | | | |  | |
Some of Our Less Memorable Moments
These infamous sound clips have risen from the Today vaults again to haunt our newsreaders and presenters. Enjoy!
| |  |
Garry Richardson interviews an Australian cricket fan masquerading as England star Alec Stewart.
- 7 January 2003 | | | |
Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002 | | | | It's not always easy to remember ... Sarah forgets where she is
- 20 May 2002
| | | |
Jim is besieged by his friends in the studio
- 15 December 2001 | | | | Jim attempts to interview Gruff Rhys of 'Super Furry Animals'. | | | |
John gets a little confused as to which Greg he has on the programme | | | | 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? | | | |
Sue and the wrong guest | | |
| | | |  | |
We don’t always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.
| | | 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. | | | |
Los Angeles based psychiatrist, Dr Carol Lieberman, tells us why she’s complained to child protection authorities about Michael Jackson.
| | | |
Zubeida Malik talked to Prince Turki Al Faisal - the new Saudi Ambassador to Britain before the war in Iraq
| | | | Robin Aitken's interview with Jackie Elliott before he was executed
| | |
|
| |
| |
|
