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ThursdayÌý24thÌýNovemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
Detectives investigating theÌýmurder of the policewoman Sharon Beshenivsky say they're actively seeking three new suspects.

0609
President Kibaki ofÌýKenya hasÌýdismissed his entire cabinet after losing a referendum on a draft constitution.

0615
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood.

0627
TheÌýsports news with Gary Richardson.

0630
John Hutton is giving his first big speech since taking over David Blunkett's job as Work andÌýPensions Secretary. Our political correspondent, Norman Smith, tells us more.

0635
An AmericanÌýspecial prosecutor is continuing his investigations into whichÌýWhite House official leaked the identity of a CIA official.

0640
The Foreign Office has acknowledged mistakes in the way the immediate aftermath of last year's Boxing DayÌýtsunami was handled.

0645
A look at the papers from Britain and China.

0647
We take a look at the events of Yesterday in Parliament.

0709
You can now stay out all night drinking if you want to. The newÌýlicensing lawsÌýcame into force at midnight. The Chairman of the Police Federation, Jan Berry, and Nigel Jones, a pub landlord, discuss the changes.

0714
The husband of the CIA agent whose identity was revealed by the White House, says that Tony Blair was double crossed by those in the Bush administration who wanted to go to war with Iraq regardless of the situation on weapons of mass destruction.

0717
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood.

0719
We've had warmer winters than usual for the past few years; this year it's going to be colder than usual - much colder. And we are going to feel it. At least that's what the Met Office says. Its chief meterologist is Ewen Mcallum.

0724
TheÌýsports news with Gary Richardson.

0738
The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, and Ed Balls, former economic adviser to Gordon Brown and now a Labour MP, speak about the economy, which is facing its toughest time since Labour came to power.

0741
The Roman Snail is threatened with extinction according to the invertebrate conservation charity Buglife.ÌýMatt Shardlow is their Conservation director.

0747
Thought for the day with the novelist and columnist Anne Atkins.

0750
Joe Wilson is the man at the Centre of the story gripping Washington. He is the husband of the deep cover CIA operative, the exposure of whose name has forced the vice president Dick Cheney's chief of staff Lewis Libby to resign to fight serious criminal charges.

0810
The newÌýWork and Pensions Secretary John Hutton is giving his first big speech in the job later today. He gives his first interview to the programme since taking over from David Blunkett, and speaks about Lord Turner's report into pensions, which will be published next week.

0822
The Guardian's ornithology columnist, Stephen Moss, and Professor Robin Lane Fox, the Financial Times garden columnist, discuss the effects of a cold winter on the UK's wildlife.

0827
The sports news with Gary Richardson

0832
The Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs Spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell, and Michael Holland, whose wife, daughter, and mother were killed in the tsunami, speak about the Foreign Office's admission that it made mistakes after the Asian tsunami last year.

0838
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood.

0841
Our correspondent Hillary Andersson talks to Marcus Prior of the World Food Programme, which has called for eleven million pounds to fund its aid operation in the west African state of Niger.

0845
Germany's new chancellorAngela Merkel, who was finally sworn in two days ago, will be heading to London today to meet Tony Blair. We talk to the London bureau chief of Der Spiegel, Thomas Huetlin, and Mark Leonard, who heads the Centre for European Reform.

0850
What exactly is the cabinet position of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster? Professor of Medieval History at the University of York, Mark Ormrod, and Anthony Howard, a chronicler of more contemporary political matters, discuss the position recently vacated by John Hutton.
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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.

Edward Stourton interviews the President of Mexico, Vincente Fox, and Tom Shannon, the United States Under Secretary of State with responsibility for the Americas, on the Summit of the Americas in Argentina and the prospect of a free trade agreement for the region.
President Vincente Fox.
Under Secretary of State Tom Shannon.
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.
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