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Thursday 1stÌýSeptemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
TheÌýhurricane katrina disaster has caused the evacuation of the remaining population of New Orleans.

0609
The Government wants to give more rights to the families of murder victims.

0615
Greg Wood has the business news.

0626
Sports news from Garry Richardson.

0632
What is President Bush doing about the devastation in New Orleans?

0634
The former Master of the Rolls Lord Donaldson, once one of our most influential judges has died.

0637
Europe's foreign ministers are meeting in Wales today to try to agree on whetherÌýTurkey should be invited to join the EU.

0639
TheÌýÌýnewspaper reviews from Britain and Jerusalem.

0642
New rules are being brought in by European Union countries to deal with illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers.

0646
Sheriff Joe Arpaio discusses how effective prison is for women.

0650
Today is the first anniversary of the Beslan school siege.

0709
Our correspondent James Coomerasamy brings us the latest news from New Orleans.

0713
Three days of official mourning have been declared in Iraq after the deaths of nearly a thousand people in Baghdad.

0718
The former Master of the Rolls, Lord Donaldson, has died. Hear his last interview with the programme.Ìý

0724
Greg Wood with the latest business news.

0731
Sports news with Garry Richardson.

0744
Harriet Harman talks about why the Government thinks that bereaved people should be allowed to speak in court.

0747
Polly Billington takes Sheriff Joe Arpaio from Maricopa County in Arizona to see a former British police chief.

0750
Thought for the day with Dom Anthony Sutch, a Benedictine Monk.

0755
The authorÌýRichard Ford speaks about the hurricane katrina disaster.

0810
Alastair Leithead, our correspondent in New Orleans went to the convention centre in the heart of the city where thousands are sheltering.

0824
The writer Geoffrey Wheatcroft discusses why he thinks that cricket is aÌýdying sport?

0827
Sports update with Garry Richardson.

0835
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Juliet Lyon, David Wilson and Jonathon Aitken discuss prison reform.

0843
Business update with Greg Wood.

0848
Today the RSPBÌýwill publish figures showing that it has been a poor breeding season for sea birds. Huw Williams reports.

0852
How do we mitigate the damage caused by natural disasters such as hurricane katrina?
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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.

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 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.

Zubeida Malik talked to Prince Turki Al Faisal - the new Saudi Ambassador to Britain before the war in Iraq
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