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WednesdayÌý2nd NovemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
There is still the possibility of a strike by public sector workers over pension rights.

0615
In Washington, Democrats have managed to force the Senate into a rare closed session to talk about intelligence and the Iraq War.

0621
Business news with Greg Wood.

0626
Sports news with Steve May.

0632
MPs get another chance to debate theÌýanti-terrorism bill today.

0635
The Australian Prime Minister John Howard says his government has received a specific warning about a planned terrorist talk on Australian soil.

0638
Germany is still having trouble putting a government together despite the two main parties agreeing to form a grand coalition.

0641
There has beenÌýrioting in Paris for six consecutive nights which started after an apparently accidental death of two youths.

0648
The review ofÌýtoday's papers from Britain and Damascus.

0652
Yesterday in parliament with Rachel Hooper.

0655
Council tax might rise by about 10% if the government does not give more money to local authorities.

0709
What do theÌýformer commander in the Metropolitan Police, Bob Milton, and Mark Oaten, Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman, think of the new anti-terrorist laws?

0716
Senior Labour MPs seem to disagree with the Prime Minister'sÌýreasons for David Blunkett's misconduct.

0721
Business update with Greg Wood.

0725
We talk about the so called Gulf War syndrome to Mark McGhee, a solicitor who represented an ex-guardsman who has been awarded a disability allowance after having served in the Gulf War.

0731
How can a farmer go on strike?

0739
Sports update with Steve May.

0742
We talk to the Conservative Ken Clarke about why he voted against the new anti-terrorism bill when it was last debated in the parliament.

0747
The head of special stamps at the Royal Mail, Julietta Edgar and Ramesh Kallidai of the Hindu Forum of Britain discuss why one of the new Christmas stamps is causing so much trouble.

0753
TheÌýthought for the day with the writer Rhidian Brook.

0756
Former head of the National Association of Pensions Funds, Alan Pickering and Stephen Timms, the pensions reform minister, look at the new pension reports.

0810
The former Ö÷²¥´óÐã Office minister, John Denham, and Charles Clarke, the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Secretary,Ìýtalk about the anti-terrorism bill.

0817
Historical consultant, Jonathan Stamp and Mary Beard who teaches classics at Newnham College look at the new drama series about Rome.

0821
Sports update with Steve May.

0824
The Conservative leadership runner, David Davis, gives his views on European politics.

0831
Bolivia is on the verge of having its first indigenous president.

0844
Business update with Greg Wood.

0852
Deputy editor of the Bookseller, Joel Rickett and Windy Dryden, professor of psycho therapeutic studies at University of London, discuss why people are attracted to so called "misery memoirs".

0856
An environmentalist James Lovelock and Dr Frank Barnaby, a nuclear physicist, discuss nuclear power stations in the view of global warming.
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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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