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ThursdayÌý11thÌýAugustÌý2005
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0607
Independent experts sayÌýhealth inequalitiesÌýare continuing to widen in England.

0609
James Reynolds inÌýGaza onÌýJewishÌýsettlers'Ìýprotests against Israel's withdrawal from the area.

0615
Airline passengers go hungry because of a catering dispute. Nick Cosgrove has the business news.

0626
The third Ashes Test begins this morning. Steve May with the sports news,Ìýfrom Old Trafford.

0632
Richard Black finds out how the government plans to to clean up nuclear waste.

0635
The majority ofÌýUK Muslims sayÌýIslamic clericsÌýshouldÌýpreach in the English language, a Ö÷²¥´óÐã poll suggests. More from Mark Easton.

0638
UN chief Kofi AnnanÌýhas urgedÌýIranÌýto show restraint over itsÌýnuclear programme. Emma Jane Kirby elaborates.

0640
A review of today's papers in the UK and Brazil.

0644
The outcome of theÌýGerman elections has been thrown into doubt by the emergence of a new party. Ray Furlong reports.

0649
Matthew Davis of the conservation group WWF tells us why he believes European cities are becoming dangerously hot.

0653
NASA is on schedule for another launch later today.Ìý This timeÌýit's not the shuttle, but an unmanned missionÌýto Mars. Pallab Ghosh reports.

0709
We speak to Green MEP Caroline Lucas about nuclear clean-up plans.

0713
A poll saysÌýUK Muslims want their prayers in English.ÌýSanchia BergÌýwent to the London Central Mosque to see what they made of this.

0720
Insurer AvivaÌýhas just announced it's half yearly results.Ìý Nick Cosgrove has the business news.

0723
Northampton police have warned women not to go out alone at night after three rapes and two attempted abductions.ÌýJon Brain with the latest.

0726
Sports news with Steve May.

0732
Will the governmentÌýreach its target of reducing health inequality by 2010? We speak to ProfessorÌýSir Michael Marmot andÌýProfessor Danny Dorling of Sheffield University.

0743
Google Earth. Rory Cellan Jones takes a closer look at the new science provided by the internet search engine.

0746
Test your memory with our radio version of a traditional parlour game.

0748
Thought for the day with Oliver McTernan,Ìýwriter and broadcaster.

0751
George LyonÌý, Minister responsible for licensing in Scotland, on whether England can learn anything from the Scottish drinking laws.

0810
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority's Sir Anthony Cleaver saysÌýÌýit will cost over 50 billion poundsÌýto dismantle our nuclear plants. We talk to ex-minister Michael Meacher and Dr John Mills.

0823
How quickly could you recite the order ofÌýa shuffled pack of cards from memory? James Ponder and Dominic O'Brien take a memory test.

0828
Steve May with the sports news from Old Trafford.

0834
Charles Wheeler re-visits theÌýWatts riots which shook Los Angeles 40 years ago with RabbiÌý Alan Freehling of theÌýLA Human Relations Commission.

0842
AÌýcompany is offering trips to the Moon. Nick Cosgrove has the business news.

0845
Judges say relaxingÌýlicensing laws will lead to more violent crime. But what about the other factors that contribute to drunkenness?

0850
Lost, a US cultÌýTV dramaÌý makes its UK debut on Channel 4. We get the views ofÌýa real castaway, Lucy IrvineÌýand film critic Derek Malcolm.

0854
Radical cleric Abu Qatada is one of theÌýten foreign nationals being detained by police. More from Danny Shaw.

0855
Chris Lowe looks back at unfolding events 60 years ago in August 1945, during the final days of World War II.
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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 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.

Zubeida Malik talked to Prince Turki Al Faisal - the new Saudi Ambassador to Britain before the war in Iraq
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