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ThursdayÌý3rd NovemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
The government will set out today how it plans to tackle the compensation culture.

0615
Lewis Libby, who resigned as Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff last week, appears in court today to answer the charges laid against him.

0621
Business news with Greg Wood.

0626
Sports news with Garry Richardson.

0632
The shadow of David Blunkett still hangs over Downing Street.

0635
More than two thousand people died in hospitals in England last year because of the way they were treated in hospital.

0638
There is still rioting in the suburbs of Paris.

0641
TheÌýreview of today's papers from Britain and Germany.

0655
A mother of a son with Downs syndrome, Jo Marshall and Marie Benton from the Downs Syndrome Association talk about how difficult it is to care for children affected by the condition.

0709
The Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Charles Kennedy, talks about David Blunkett's resignation, and the governments terror legislation.

0716
Chief executive of the NHS confederationÌýGill Morgan talks about National Audit Office figures on the number of unnecessary deaths in our hospitals.

0721
Business news with Greg Wood.

0725
AÌýpanda called Babu has escaped from a nature centre in Birmingham.

0728
Sports update with Garry Richardson.

0731
Tariq Ramadan, professor of Islamic studies at Oxford university, talks about the rioting in Paris.

0739
A new exhibition -ÌýThe Artist and Radio 4 - opens later today in London.

0746
Thought for the day with Rosemary Lain-Priestley, Priest of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

0754
Lord Carlile, the Liberal Democrat peer with the job of reviewing the government's anti-terror legislation, talks about yesterdays vote in parliament.

0810
We speak to Conservative party leader Michael Howard, and the 91Èȱ¬ Secretary Charles Clarke, on David Blunkett's resignation and anti-terror legislation.

0829
Sports update with Gary Richardson.

0832
President Clinton's former head of climate policy, Eileen Claussen, talks on whether America is changing its approach to global warming.

0840
Business news with Gregg Wood.

0845
Four years ago, Argentina's economy was in crisis. Now the country is recovering but not all Argentines are benefiting.

0853
Dr Rebecca Spang, an historian at university College London, and Professor Haydn Mason from Bristol University talk about why theÌýLisbon earthquake over two centuries ago, profoundly effected the way we think.

0857
Anne McElvoy, executive editor of the Evening Standard, and Steve Richards, political columnist at the Independent, talk about the departure of David Blunkett.

0859
91Èȱ¬ Political Editor Nick Robinson gives us a roundup from Westminster.
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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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