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Thursday 21st April 2005
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0607
Zubeida Malik conducts the first 91Èȱ¬ interview with Moazzem Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee.

0609
News from Rome on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's resignation.

0615
Business News with Greg Wood.

0626
Sports news from Steve May

0631
Our Correspondent Norman Smith examines theÌýTories'Ìýtax cuts,Ìýand reflects on Tony Blair's performance last night on theÌýJeremy Paxman interview.

0635
The postal voting system is set toÌýface a legal challengeÌýtoday that could have an impact on the election result.

0638
The latest from Iraq as its caretaker prime minister,ÌýIyad Allawi escapes unhurtÌýfrom a suicide bomb attack.

0640
A human rights group says the Burmese military attacked Karen rebels with chemical weapons.

0643
A review ofÌýtoday's papers with Chris Aldridge.

0646
Damian Grammaticas looks at today's papers in Moscow.

0649
Our political correspondent Robert Orchard, reports on theÌýelection campaign trail.

0653
Medical researchers in Manchester say some people are inventing family histories of breast cancer to gain attention or sympathy. Our health correspondent is Adam Brimelow.

0709
We speak to the Liberal Democrats' deputy leader Sir Menzies Campbell onÌýrecentÌýviolence in Iraq andÌýTony Blair'sÌýcomments onÌý91Èȱ¬ NewsnightÌý about hisÌýdecisionÌýto go to war.

0715
Is postal voting an invitation to fraud?ÌýJames Naughtie travels inÌýour battle-bus to Newcastle to find out.

0722
Business update from Greg Wood.

0724
Will the Conservatives make any headway in this election with theirÌýexpectedÌýplans to devote £1bn to a cut in stamp duty? Our correspondent Iain Watson.

0728
Sport update from Steve May.

0730
Baroness Cox ofÌýChristian Solidarity worldwide tells us why there should be an investigation into claimsÌýthat the Burmese military used chemical weapons in an attack on Karen rebels on their border with Thailand.

0746
Hear more onÌýimmigration issues from James Naughtie on our battle-bus in Newcastle.

0749
Thought for the day with the Chief Rabbi,ÌýDr Jonathan Sacks.

0752
The head of the Roman Catholic Church in South Africa, Cardinal Wilfred NapierÌýon the election of Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI.

0810
Is Immigration really out of control? Immigration minister Des Browne and shadow home secretary David Davis discuss.

0827
Does the work of famous English writer GK Chesterton conjure up a benign English nationalism or an unsavoury, paranoid xenophobia? Cultural historian Patrick WrightÌý andÌýformerÌýhome Secretary Lord Kenneth Baker.

0830
Sports update with Steve May.

0837
Hear 91Èȱ¬Ìýfirst exclusiveÌýinterview withÌýMoazzem Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee.

0840
Business update with Greg Wood.

0850
The ceremony, marking the 400-year anniversary of the gunpowder plot, will see historian David StarkeyÌýkicking off the officialÌýevents with a lectureÌýat Coaton Court in Warwickshire today.

0854
How big an issue is crime going to be in this election? Ex-prisons chief inspector Sir David Ramsbotham along with former drugs tsar Keith Hellawell andÌýformer high court judge, Sir Oliver Popplewell discuss.
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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 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 91Èȱ¬ 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.

Los Angeles based psychiatrist, Dr Carol Lieberman, tells us why she’s complained to child protection authorities about Michael Jackson.

Zubeida Malik talked to Prince Turki Al Faisal - the new Saudi Ambassador to Britain before the war in Iraq
Robin Aitken's interview with Jackie Elliott before he was executed
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