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WednesdayÌý21st December 2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.

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0607
Europe's fisheries ministers are meeting today to talk about cutting quotas.

0609
The Advertising standards Authority has ruled against vegetarians who sayÌý they were offended by aÌýBurger King advertisement showing a cow wearing its logo while a man sang "they're only 1.99".

0614
TheÌýbusiness news with Greg Wood.

0626
TheÌýsports news with Steve May.

0632
More than a third of hospitals in England are said to be failing to follow guidelines on managing a potentially fatal infection.

0634
TheÌýPrime Minister Tony Blair is meeting the press today.

0637
The trial of Saddam Hussein and seven co-defendants resumes in Baghdad today.

0645
The review of today's papers from both Britain and Jerusalem.

0648
Yesterday in parliament with Susan Hulme.

0652
Brendan Gormley from the Disasters Emergency Committee tells us what has been done with the money raised for the tsunami relief over the past year.

0655
James Arbuthnot from the House of Commons Defence Committee talks to us about how well the project to replace royal aircraft carriers is being carried out.

0709
We talk to Nigel Edwards from NHS confederation and Marcia Fry, who worked on a survey into hospital infections caused by a bug called clostridium difficile.

0715
The shadow chancellor George Osborne says the lost EU rebate will cost Britain almost double the predicted sum.

0720
Business update with Greg Wood.

0725
The chief prisons inspector Anne Owers has found serious problems with one of the private run prisons in Manchester.

0737
Sports update with Steve May.

0742
Are there enoughÌýrefugees coming into this country?

0747
The author and philosopher Alain de Botton tells us who he thinks runs Britain.

0752
The thought for the day with the Bishop of London, Right Reverend Richard Chartres.

0755
We talk to a member of Saddam Hussein defence team, Ramsey Clark, about the trial that resumes today.

0810
The EU trade commissionerÌýPeter Mandelson looks at the impact of the trade talks in Hong Kong that ended last week.

0824
Our sports presenter Mary Rhodes is preparing for the London Marathon four months away.

0835
Sports update with Steve May.

0842
Professor of medicines policy Joe Collier talks about the ethics of primary care trust refusing to fund expensive drugs.

0847
Business update with Greg Wood.

0850
Obituaries editor of The Times, Anthony Howard and Charles Mosley, editor in chief of Debrett's People of Today, discuss civil partnerships.

0855
Baroness Greenfield, Kathy Sykes and Dr Ian Gibson try to decide about the most influential people in Britain.
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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.

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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