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8th September 2004
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0607
Mike Donkin is in Iraq where the number of Americans killed has reached 1000.

0609
The Government is preparing new mental health legislation. Karen Allen has the details.

0615
Greg Wood has a round-up to the business news.

0632
The Conservatives are revealing their proposals for higher education. Norman smith is our political correspondent.

0636
Some film of what it was like inside the Beslan siege has surfaced. Steven Eke is our correspondent in Moscow.

0638
The brother of a British man killed by terrorists in Saudi Arabia claims three of the perpetrators escaped due to connections with the Saudi's internal security service.

0641
A review of today's papers with Neil Sleat.

0643
A look at the international press with Rupert WIngfield-Hayes in Beijing.

0646
MPs returned to Westminster yesterday. Our parliamentary correspondent Sean Curran reports.

0651
The Glaswegian band Franz Ferdinand have won this year's Mercury Music Prize. Henrietta Harrison was at the ceremony.

0654
Hollywood stunt artists are going to try to intercept a NASA spacecraft as it comes back to earth.

0708
The Conservatives tell us how they would pay for getting rid off university top-up fees.

0715
What did Bill Clinton tell John Kerry in that ninety-minute conversation just before the former president's heart by-pass?

0722
Are happy hours making nights out a misery?

0719
Here's Greg Wood with the business news.

0731
We examine what a Labour manifesto would look like if Alan Milburn were given a key role in drafting it.

0741
Neil Sleat with a review of today's papers.

0744
It's been a hit on Broadway but has The Producers got the right stuff to be a success in London's West End?

0751
The government is making another attempt to introduce new mental health legislation. But the draft bill is likely to attract criticism from campaign groups.

0810
Hear from the widow and brother of Michael Hamilton - the British man murdered by terrorists in Saudi Arabia in May 2004. Also hear Jamal Khashoggi from the Saudi Embassy in the UK and Sir Sherard Cowper Coles, the British ambassador in Riyadh.

0824
Should today's girls' magazines aspire to be more like Bunty and other wholesome comics of yesteryear?

0835
What is being done to prepare 
Iraq for that day when the final coalition soldier leaves the country.

0842
Greg Wood with a business update.

0845
The world has now had the chance to see the scenes inside the school in Beslan. Hear from the leader of the Russian Democratic Party.

0848
Post '9/11' there was much talk about cutting off the money that allows terrorism to flourish. Now questions about where the Beslan terrorists got their funds is being asked.

0853
What forms of global governance should we be striving for in the 21st century? That's the issue under discussion tonight at St Paul's Cathedral.
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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!

When the technology fails John and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
Jim introduces a very strange sounding 
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
- 23th July 2004
Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
- 25th October 2003
Is that Alec Stewart?
Garry Richardson interviews an Australian cricket fan masquerading as England star Alec Stewart.
- 7 January 2003
Interruption
Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002
Where am I?
It's not always easy to remember ... Sarah forgets where she is
- 20 May 2002
Studio invasion
Jim is besieged by his friends in the studio
- 15 December 2001
Unforthcoming
Jim attempts to interview Gruff Rhys of 'Super Furry Animals'.
Greg?
John gets a little confused as to which Greg he has on the programme
Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster.
Laughing matter
What is Charlotte Green giggling about?
Weathermen
John and Jim share a joke about the weather?
Wrong guest
Sue and the wrong guest
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.

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).
Jim Naughtie interviews the Nigerian High Commissioner in Britain, Dr Christopher Kolade, 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. First 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 to 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 to James Naughtie
Her questions surrounding the White 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.
Michael Jackson complaint
Los Angeles based psychiatrist, Dr Carol Lieberman, tells us why she’s complained to child protection authorities about Michael Jackson.
Saudi ambassador on war
Zubeida Malik talked to Prince Turki Al Faisal - the new Saudi Ambassador to Britain before the war in Iraq
Jackie Elliott
Robin Aitken's interview with Jackie Elliott before he was executed
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