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Weekdays 6-9am and Saturdays 7-9am How to listen to Today Friday 20th May 2005 NB: we are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews. Choose an audio clip you would like to listen to from the most recent programme. 0607 Uzbek security forces have been consolidating their control over the border town of Karasu. 0609 Peter Bowes with the latest account of the Michael Jackson trial in California. 0615 Business news with Nick Cosgrove. 0626 Sports news with Steve May. 0632 Prime Minister Tony Blair is back at work after receiving hospital treatment for a slipped disc. 0635 Roland Pease on the revelation of a breakthrough in stem cell technology. 0638 The government is to set up a working party of heads and teachers to investigate ways of tackling poor behaviour in schools. 0640 A review of today's papers in the UK and Israel. 0646 Robert Orchard reports on events Yesterday in Parliament. 0651 The World Health Organisation is holding a two-day meeting to consider allowing further research into the deadly smallpox virus. 0709 President of the British Osteopathic Association, Nigel Grahamon Tony Blair recent health scare. 0711 Sam Younger of the Electoral Commission gives his thoughts on voting abuse.  0715 A business update with Nick Cosgrove. 0717 What is the significance of the breakthrough creation of human embryonic stem cells designed to match sick or injured patients? 0721 Kenyans are concerned that their pre-eminent position in long distance running is under threat following many of its athletes opting for riches abroad. 0725 A sports update with Steve May. 0732 Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer on the government's promises on electoral reform. 0743 Concern mounts over the decline of some of Britain's woodland birds species including the rare lesser spotted Woodpecker. Click for the RSPB and BTO appeal for sightings of secretive woodpecker. 0746 Thought for the day with the Right Reverend Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford. 0749 Al Quds, the only Arab University in Jerusalem has criticised the Association of University Teachers (AUT)boycott of Israeli academic institutions. 0810 Education Secretary Ruth Kelly on discipline in our schools. 0823 Hear BBC's exclusive interview with CNN's chief news executive Eason Jordan, who resigned amid controversy over comments about the death of journalists in Iraq. 0829 Sports news with Steve May. 0834 Professor Jeremy Treglown from Warwick University and novelist DJ Taylor on why writer Henry Green is so revered. 0840 A business update with Nick Cosgrove. 0843 Former Labour Foreign Minister Chris Mullin on MPs' bumper 80-day summer holiday. 0845 A curfew is to be imposed on youth groups of two or more people from a Northumberland town centre to reduce anti-social behaviour. 0851 Conservatives' David Cameron and Lib Dem's Ed Davey on government plans to tackle pupil behaviour. Missed a programme? Or would you like to listen again? Try last 7 days below or visit the Audio Archive page: Saturday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Having trouble listening? Why not try our audio help section. Thought for the Day for today and the last week can be heard from the Religion and Ethics Website 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, as Nick 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 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 Interruption 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. Laughing matter What is Charlotte Green giggling about? Weathermen John and Jim share a joke about the weather? We don’t always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website. Edward Stourton interviews Monsignor Charles Burns, a retired head of the Vatican's Secret Archives, in Rome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II. (08/04/05) Part 1 Part 2 First BBC interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaks to our reporter Zubeida Malik about his ordeal and how he continues to campaign 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). 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 Today | Listen Again | Latest Reports | Interview of the Week | About Today | Today at 50 | Have Your Say | Contact Today

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