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FridayÌý3rdÌýFebruary 2006Ìý
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0607
The UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, is in the process of deciding whether to referÌýIran to the Security Council.

0609
More than a thousand people may have been told they had heart problems when they did not.

0615
TheÌýbusiness news with Rebecca Marston.

0626
The sports news with Steve May.

0632
The row over theÌýcartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad is not going away.

0634
There is aÌýshortage of gynaecologists in the country.

0637
The review of today's papers both from Britain and Nepal.

0640
A look at yesterday in parliament with Robert Orchard.

0645
New figures show how many of us will have to pay inheritance tax in the future.

0650
The Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott is expected to say today that he does support the proposed school reforms .

0654
The Dutch parliament has agreed to send more soldiers to Afghanistan.

0709
We speak toÌýAssan Al Najdawi from Arab Printers about why one of their newspapers, Al Shihan, published the cartoons of the prophet Mohammad.

0712
In just under a week from now, voters go to the polls in the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election.

0717
Business update with Rebecca Marston.

0720
Alan Templeton from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists talks about why trainee doctors are not choosing to go into these medical fields.

0724
Sports updateÌýwith Steve May.

0730
Labour MP Gisela Stuart and David Heathcote Amory, a Conservative MP, discuss the European constitution.

0738
We speak toÌýColonel Gordon Messenger about the conditions in Afghanistan as Holland and Britain are planning to send more troops into the country.

0742
The Lake District National Park Authority has got money worries.

0745
Thought for the Day with The Chief Rabbi Dr Jonathan Sacks.

0750
The Liberal Democrat leadership contender Simon Hughes talks about how his party could become more popular.

0810
The author of "Jerry Springer the Opera", Stewart Lee and Inayat Bunglawala from the Muslim Council of Britain discuss religious sensitivity in arts and media.

0820
Jeff Wayne's rock opera of H. G. Wells' novel "The War of the Worlds" is going to be staged live for the first time.

0826
Sports update with Steve May.

0830
Open University lecturer,ÌýJonty Rix and Dominic Lawson from the Independent discuss whether it is wrong to describe someone as "mentally handicapped".

0843
AÌýbusiness update with Rebecca Marston.

0849
We talk to the former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, about whether the Orange revolution has been a failure.

0852
TheÌýUK theme is going to be released on a CD.

0854
In Kenya, a major corruption scandal is threatening to topple the very government that promised to rid the country of its corrupt past.

0858
The eighties pop sensation, Rick Astley and Neil McCormick from the Daily Telegraph talk about the closing down of Smash Hits.
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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 nominations for the Oscars were announced yesterday, and The Constant Gardener is tipped for a place on the shortlist. It stars Ralph Fiennes who picked up an Evening Standard Film Award this week for his role in the film. Polly Billington spoke him and to the author, John le Carre, about the film and its chances at the Oscars. (31/01/06)
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 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 who 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.
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