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TuesdayÌý20thÌýSeptemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
William Horsley in Germany examinesÌýthe country's post-election political deadlock.

0609
A former world footballer of the year,ÌýGeorge Weah, looks likely to be Liberia's next president. Our reporter there is Robin Brandt.

0615
Greg Wood has the business news.

0628
Garry RichardsonÌýwith the sports news.

0634
British forces in Iraq have freed two colleagues who'd been arrested by local police in the city of Basra. Our correspondents Richard Galpin and Paul Wood have more.Ìý

0636
Are theÌýLiberal Democrats a party of the centre left or the centre right? Iain Watson finds out.

0642
Danny Shaw on why the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Secretary backs a shake-up ofÌý Britain's policing.

0644
Today'sÌýnewspaper review comes from the UK and Paris.

0650
TheÌýpolitical stalemate continues in Germany. Andrew Hosken reports from Berlin.

0654
The Liberal Democrats are discussingÌýprivatising the post office. We speak to their Trade and Industry spokesman MP Norman Lamb.

0709
Iraq expert Toby Dodge and Lib Dem's Sir Menzies Campbell react to recent violent clashes inÌýIraq.

0718
The heads of two of the main police unions explain why a restructure ofÌýthe 43Ìýpolice forces in England and Wales is necessary.

0723
TheÌýbusiness news from Greg Wood.

0726
Garry Richardson has the sports news.

0733
Which way should theÌýLiberal Democrats turn in the search for more votes? We hear from the party's chief executive Lord Rennard.

0743
WhyÌýJerry Springer - The Opera will be touring the country - despite the protests.

0745
Thought for the Day from Dr Indarjit Singh, Editor of the Sikh Messenger.

0749
The Ö÷²¥´óÐã Secretary Charles Clarke on why he wants to reorganise Britain's police forces.

0810
TheÌýDefence Secretary John Reid talks to us about the latest violence in Iraq.

0825
Lord McNally shows why he is so pleased theÌýLiberal Democrats are back in Blackpool.

0835
Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunterÌýSimon Wiesenthal has died in Vienna. We speak to the chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust, Lord Janner.

0837
Greg Wood with a business update.

0840
A nationwide tour of the controversial musicalÌýJerry Springer - The Opera is to go ahead. Stephen GreenÌýof Christian Voice.

0843
What will theÌýpolitical deadlock in Germany mean for EU integration? Former EU advisor Sir Stephen Wall comments.

0848
Why are we still so fascinated byÌýa queen who died 400 years ago and never even sat on the English throne? Professor John Guy of Cambridge University and Dr Helen Hackett of University College London.

0853
How do theÌýLiberal Democrats define themselves? The party president Simon Hughes and Nick Clegg, MP for Sheffield Hallam.
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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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