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ThursdayÌý16thÌýFebruary 2006Ìý
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0607
What sorts of people are most likely to get Alzheimer?

0609
The UN report calling forÌýGuantanamo Bay to be closed down will be officially published today.

0615
Business news with Greg Wood.

0626
Sports news with Steve May.

0631
MPs have agreed thatÌý"glorifying" terrorism should be banned.

0634
The US vice president Dick Cheney has finally talked about his shooting incident.

0640
What is the effect of the pictures of tortured Abu Ghraib prisoners in Iraq?

0645
The EU will be discussing today what to do ifÌýbird flu spreads to commercial poultry.

0648
The review of today's papers from Britain and Australia.

0651
Yesterday in Parliament with Robert Orchard.

0655
The Kaiser Chiefs were the big winners at last nights Brits, taking three awards.

0709
Iraqi planning minister, Dr Barham Salih and Mazin Younis, Chairman of Iraqi League, discuss why the picture of Abu Ghraib abuses still have the power to shock despite being over two years old.

0715
Sir Alistair Graham from Committee on Standards in Public Life looks at why people will not vote during elections.

0719
Dr Nikolaos Scarmeas of Columbia University New York conducted a research into the effect of Alzheimer on different social groups.

0722
Business update with Greg Wood.

0727
The relatively minor Dick Cheney's shooting incident has grown in importance and political significance.

0733
Sports update with Steve May.

0742
Chief Superintendent Ali Desai and Dr Abdul Wahid of the Muslim organisation Hisbut Tahrir discuss the effect of the ban on glorifying terrorism.

0747
It looks like producers of patio heaters may benefit from the ban on smoking in public places.

0750
William Hague, George Osborne and Liam Fox are all on a mission to talk to the Americans.

0755
Researchers at St Louis Zoo in Missouri have developed what they have described as a computer dating agency for wild animals.

0810
President of Patient's Association,ÌýClare Rayner, Dr Gill Morgan from NHS Confederation and Andrea Sutcliffe from National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence discuss why sick people may or may not get the medicine they need depending on where they live.

0822
TheÌýthought for the day with John Bell of the Iona Community.

0827
Sports update with Steve May.

0831
Ann Cryer from 91Èȱ¬ Affairs Select Committee talks about why the Britishness test for foreign born religious ministers has been dropped.

0835
Business update with Greg Wood.

0838
Writer and critic Toby Young and Christina Odone, the Observer columnist, discuss why 4 in 5 men do not bother taking paternity leave.

0844
Edmund King from the RAC Foundation says crashes take place because drivers are given too much to look at.

0855
Optimum Population Trust's Rosamund McDougall and Dr Madsen Pirie of the Adam Smith Institute discuss how many people are too many.
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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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