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Friday 24th June 2005
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0607
The final results in the general election are in - Staffordshire South has voted.

0609
The number of people injured or killed in collisions involving police cars has risen sharply.

0615
Business with Rebecca Marston.

0626
Sports news with Steve May.

0632
The Health Secretary warns NHS trusts they will not be given extra funding to repay their deficits.

0637
Peter Mandelson delivered a speech about the EU crisis in Brussels last night.

0640
Britain and the US have urged African leaders to condemn what's been going on in Zimbabwe.

0643
A review of today's papers in the UK and Madrid.

0648
Yesterday in Parliament with Robert Orchard.

0651
Voting has begun in the closest presidential election in Iranian history.

0655
Six months on, find out how you can be part of the BBC's Tsunami Audio Memorial.

0709
Questions about the legality of war are being raised in America. Lib Dem Foreign Affairs spokesman Sir Menzies Campbell joins us.

0717
Nick Hardwick, Chair of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, on the rapid rise in accidents involving police cars.

0721
Business with Rebecca Marston.

0723
Nigel Edwards, Director of Policy at the NHS Confederation, looks at the rise in hospital deficits, despite increased funding.

0727
Sports update with Steve May.

0732
Peter Mandelson, EU Trade Commissioner, explains the modern social agenda for Europe.

0740
Berlin's University of Fine Arts has created a course in comedy - prompting the question; is there a distinct German sense of humour?

0746
Thought for the Day with the Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks.

0750
Why have the Co-op Bank refused an account to the campaigning group Christian Voice?

0810
Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt discusses why, despite receiving more money than ever before, hospitals all over the country have gone into the red.

0820
Frinton-on-Sea is being plagued by rash inducing caterpillars. Is the Brown Tail Tussock Moth at fault?

0826
Sports update with Steve May.

0832
Claire Wilton from Friends of the Earth and Ben Bradshaw, Environment Minister, discuss The Big Recycle.

0839
Business with Rebecca Marston.

0842
Retired Israeli Judge, Hadass-Ben-Itto, has written an account of the spurious pamphlet the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

0847
Jonathan Metcalf, Chief Operating Officer at GNER, explains why hundreds of passengers were trapped in overheated carriages for hours yesterday during a power failure.

0852
As congregations shrink, who should pay for the maintenance of historical churches? Richard Halsey of English Heritage and Chris Erskine of the Shaftesbury Society. 
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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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