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Thursday 7th JulyÌý2005
NB: we are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.

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0607
How did London win their bid to host the 2012 Olympics? Andy Swiss is in Singapore.

0609
A new report highlights substantialÌý disparities between NHS services in different parts of the country.

0615
Business news with Greg Wood.

0626
Sports news with Steve May.

0630
The G8 begin discussions onÌýclimate change today.

0634
How isÌýParis reacting to the Olympic decision?

0637
A review of today's national and international press.

0644
Yesterday in Parliament with Richard Orchard.

0649
Renowned architectÌýLord Foster discusses the practicalities of climate change in his profession.

0653
Peter Aldhous from Nature describes the alarm surrounding the discovery ofÌýbird flu amongst migratory geese.

0709
International financier George Soros and Claude Mandil, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, discuss policy on climate change.

0716
As London contemplates the task ahead,ÌýMetropolitan Commissioner Sir Ian Blair describes the scale of security needed for the 2012 Olympics.

0722
Business update with Greg Wood.

0725
Sports update with Steve May.

0732
Kofi Annan's Chief of Staff, Mark Malloch Brown, discusses the UN Secretary General's speech in London last night which claimed poor countries had reached a "make or break" point.

0741
Steve Evans wonders what the G8 leaders are listening to on their iPods in Gleneagles this week.

0747
Thought for the Day with Rev Dr Alan Billings - Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University.

0750
Olympic Gold medallist Jonathan Edwards joins us from Singapore to discuss the 2012 Olympics.

0810
James Naughtie is in Gleneagles, where he has been speaking to, amongst others, Peter Mandelson, Head of the WTO Dr Superchai Panitchpakdi, Paul Wolfowitz and...Claudia Shieffer.

0820
Author Celia Haddon explains how 2012 marks theÌý400th anniversary of the very first English Olympics - held in the village of Weston-sub-Edge in the Cotswolds.

0826
Sports update with Steve May.

0833
As the Today programme discovers President Bush "misspoke" when he claimed to have spent $20billion reducing fossil fuels, Lord May, President of the Royal Society, joins us to discuss climate change.

0838
Business update with Greg Wood.

0846
Environmentalist and activistÌýMark Lynas assesses what might happen if climate change goes unchecked.

0849
The Guardian's architecture criticÌýJonathan Glancey and writer Ben MacIntyre discuss how the Olympics will change the landscape of London.

0854
World Affairs Correspondent Mike Wooldridge, Tony Juniper from Friends of the EarthÌýand Political Editor Andrew Marr join us from Gleneagles.
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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.

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 Ö÷²¥´óÐã 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.

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
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