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Friday 10th June 2005
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0607
The French and German leaders, president Jacques Chirac and chancellor Gerhard Schroeder are meeting today.

0609
The Bolivian public is calming down now that their president has resigned.

0615
The business news with Rebecca Marston.

0626
Sports news with Garry Richardson.

0631
Finance ministers from the G8 countries meet in London today ahead of the next month's summit.

0634
It is a second day of the general strike in Zimbabwe in opposition to the president Mugabe's clean up operation that has left tens of thousands of people homeless.

0637
A study in this week's British Medical Journal raises questions about the effects of taking anti-inflammatory drugs, including some of the most common painkillers.

0639
This morning we can see for the very first time a list of 12 locations that have been considered for dumping Britain's nuclear waste.

0646
A review of today's papers both from Britain and Seoul.

0652
The shadow transport secretary, Alan Duncan, has become another candidate for the Conservative party leadership.

0709
Lord Kinnock is talking about the budget rebate originally secured by Margaret Thatcher.

0714
The musician Damon Albarn talks about the way in which Live Aid is being organised.

0719
Business update with Rebecca Marston.

0722
Italy is considering withdrawal from the single EU currency and return to lira.

0728
Sports update with Garry Richardson.

0732
The new proposed bill aiming to make religious hatred a criminal offence is being criticised as impractical and stifling freedom of speech.

0744
One of the daughters of the author Roald Dahl is showing us around his museum which opens tomorrow.

0748
The thought for the day with the chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

0750
Miloon Kothari of the UN Commission on Human Rights talks about the situation in Zimbabwe.

0810
The chancellor Gordon Brown is meeting the G8 finance ministers who are in London today.

0826
Song writer Billy Bragg and John Cooper Clarke, the punk poet, look at songs that some politicians like.

0834
Sports update with Garry Richardson.

0838
Saddam Hussein's legal team is preparing for the former Iraqi dictator's trial that could be only months away.

0841
Business update with Rebecca Marston.

0845
Do Americans lack generosity when it comes to helping the poor in Africa?

0851
Have the standards of reading risen in primary schools?

0855
The transport secretary Alistair Darling is proposing a public debate on road pricing.
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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, 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?
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.

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, 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
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