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Tuesday 6th SeptemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
The city of Baton Rouge is struggling to cope with the influx of refugees from hurricane Katrina.

0609
The electoral commission wants to change the way we are registered on the electoral roll.

0615
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood.

0626
Garry Richardson has the latest sports news.

0632
Engineers in New Orleans have managed to shore up the biggest breach in the levees and have started draining water out of the city.

0637
The Education Secretary Ruth Kelly, is announcing a new proposal on how to deal with failing schools.

0640
Iran could produce nuclear weapons within five years according to the International Institute of Strategic Studies.

0642
The review ofÌýtoday's papers from Britain and France.

0647
The EU and China areÌýplanning to work together on a new generation of "clean" coal-fired power stations in order to reduce climate change.

0650
Oxfam director, Chris Coe, talks about the items people donate to the charity shops.

0709
Two New Orleans police officers have committed suicide and another 200 have resigned since the rescue operations in the city have started.

0711
Martin Brookes from a group called New Philanthropy Capital looks at tackling truancy from school.

0716
Business update with Greg Wood.

0720
The director of the International Institute for International Relations, Gary Samore, talks about Iran's nuclear ambitions.

0724
Garry Richardson has the sports news.

0731
The EU Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, offers a peace agreement into the bra war between China and European Union.

0742
TheÌýBritish Museum is opening an exhibition looking at the ancient Persian Empire.

0746
TheÌýthought for the day with Angela Tilby, Vice Principal at Westcott House in Cambridge.

0750
The local paper inÌýNew Orleans the Times-Picayune has written an open letter to the President asking him to fire every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency because of the way it has handled the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.Ìý We're joined by David Johnson, the deputy US ambassador to the UK.

0810
Ruth KellyÌýtoday will address the Local Government Association about plans for schools which are at the bottom of the education ladder.

0822
Do we need rain in order to win the Ashes?

0826
Garry Richardson has the sports update.

0832
Several cities in Belgium have bannedÌýMuslim women from wearing a burka and some are threatening with fines for disobedience.

0836
Business update with Greg Wood.

0842
Is ourÌýmodern lifestyle causing us to lose touch with nature?

0845
A North Korean defector, Kang Cheol Hwan, talks about his experience in the Yodok camp for political offenders.

0854
The authorities in Biloxi in Mississippi are worried that many businesses ruined byÌýHurricane Katrina will not rebuild there.

0856
IsÌýNew Orleans responsible for its own fate?
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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.

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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