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Monday 10th OctoberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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Ìý0607ÌýÌýÌýÌý
The work and pensions secretary David Blunkett reveals more of his plans for welfare reform today, and they can be expected to stir up the Labour backbenches

0609
Pakistan's president has appealed for international assistance to deal with the aftermath of Saturday's earthquake.
UNICEF donations for the Earthquake in Pakistan
unicef.org.uk or call 0800037 9797


0615
The business news with Greg Wood

0626
The sports news with Garry Richardson

0632
Andrew North reports from Balakot, about sixty miles north of the Pakistani capital Islamabad, one of the remote places hit by theÌýearthquake on Saturday,Ìýand proving difficult for the relief agencies to reach.

0635
The Assisted Dying Bill is being debated in the Lords today

0639
Pupils from poorer homes are significantly under represented at the best state schools in England. A charity which campaigns forÌý educational equality claims that the schools are "socially selective".

0643
The news from Pakistan has eclipsed the very serious impact of Hurricane Stan in Central America over the weekend.Ìý Claire Marshall is in Tapachula on the Mexican border with Guatemala .

0646
A review of today's papers inÌýBritain and Havana

0651
On the eve of a planned summit between the Palestinian and Israeli leaders, Jon Leyne returned to the settlements he watched being evacuated just a few weeks ago.

0655
Among the survivors of the earthquake are many, many children who will be vulnerable to cold, hunger and illness. UNICEF Director David Bull talks about how they are trying to help.

0658

The Food Standards Agency says we are still eating too much salt - Deidre Hutton chairs the Agency


0712
The Ö÷²¥´óÐã's World Afairs correspondent, Mike Wooldridge, reports on the latest on the earthquake from the Pakistan capital, Islamabad andÌýwe talk to Farooq Murad who is the Chairman of Muslim Aid

0716
The Euro Cryosat space mission, which was supposed to monitor the thickness of ice sheets in the Arctic has failed, Professor Duncan Wingham was the mind behind the project.

0719
Chris Morris reports from Melea on on theÌýthousands of illegal immigrants who have been trying to cross from Morocco into the Spainish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta.

0723
The sports news from Garry Richardson

0726
The area hit by the weekend's terrible earthquake, centred on Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, happened in an area which is prone to tremors, but could this have been predicted? Professor John Mccloskey, a seismologist, is head of the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Ulster

0732
We discuss the proposedÌýAssisted Dying Bill with Richard Harries, the bishop of Oxford, Joel Joffe, the crossbench peer who's put the bill forward.

0741
Rachel Whitereadis about to real what she's dreamt up for the Turbine hall at the Tate Modern.Ìý Rebecca Jones reports.

0743
Thought for the Daywith The Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks

0751
We talk to David Blunkett, the work and pensions secretary, is laying out his principles for welfare reform today

0810
Andrew North reports from Balakot some sixty miles north east of the Pakistani capital - it seems several hundred children were buried in their schools.Ìý and we talk to Mark Lyall Grant is Britain's High Commissioner in Islamabad

0820
Today in Parliament

0822
Mark Lyall Grant, Britain's High Commissioner in Islamabad.

0825
TheÌýsport with Garry Richardson

0831
Democrat leader in the Senate, Tom Daschle of South Dakota is in London to talk about American-European relations at an event organised by the American European Institute and the British American Project..

0839
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood

0846
It's being reported that Angela Merkel will be announced as the German chancellor later today Ray Furlong reports

0852
Matthew D'Ancona of The Sunday Telegraph and James Rubin who was an assistant secretary of state in the Clinton administration and is a student of the former president discuss David Davis and how he can turn his campaign around after last weeks Conservative conference.

0857
We have been following events in Pakistan closely during this morning's programme, Ìýwe spoke to Kalim Dli Khan who lives in Islamabad and Shaista Azizi who works for Oxfam in the city.
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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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