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Friday 5th August 2005
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0607
The computer system for the NHS could fail because staff are demoralised about the project, a poll suggests. Adam Brimelow has more.

0609
Chris Hogg is in Hiroshima for the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bomb.

0615
Many outlets are set to miss this weekend's deadline for a new licence to sell alcohol. Rebecca Marston has the business news.

0626
Sports news with Garry Richardson.

0632
Two women face charges in connection with the 21 July terror attacks.  Neil Bennett with more details.

0634
Aid workers have expressed concern about food shortages in Mali . David Loyn reports.

0637
An Israeli soldier has been lynched by a mob after he shot four people on a bus in an Israeli Arab town. James Reynolds with the latest.

0640
Last call nears for many pubs and clubs in Britain to apply for their licence to be automatically extended. Richard Scott with more.

0644
A review of today's papers in the UK and Jordan.

0648
A Niger aid appeal  raises millions of pounds for the country's famine crisis. But was the money too little too late? Unicef's Rima Salah comments.

0651
David Sillitto at the Edinburgh Fringe festival examines whether it's acceptable to be funny about terrorism.

0654
NASA says another spacewalk for more repairs on Discovery is not necessary. So is the space shuttle safe for re-entry? 

0709
Barclays reports a rise of 9% in pre-tax profit in its half-yearly results. The bank's chief executive, John Varley talks to us.

0713
The Home Secretary has been given new powers to ban foreigners who encourage terrorism. James Hardy explains.

0715
Chris Hogg analyses claims that survivors of the Hiroshima A-bomb could face even worse radiation in future.

0719
To what extent does the new al-Qaeda tape show that Osama Bin Laden was connected to the July 7th attacks? We speak to ex-CIA agent Robert Baer.

0723
Sports news with Garry Richardson.

0727
Two people have been charged with the murder of teenager Anthony Walker. Judith Walker is in Liverpool.

0731
what does multiculturalism really mean? Is more being done for integration? Labour's John Denham wants more action to tackle the roots of alienation.

0742
Matthew Wells in Manhattan looks at the debate over stop and search policy in New York.

0747
Thought for the day with the Right Reverend Tom Butler, bishop of Southwark.

0750
Sanchia Berg on whether businesses will miss the deadline for the new licensing law. Licensing minister James Purnell says the predictions of chaos have been over-hyped.

0810
Anti-war MP George Galloway says the London attacks can't be separated from the invasion of Iraq.

0810
Tory leadership hopeful Dr Liam Fox says there is absolutely no excuse for the sort of terror we are seeing.

0822
Ekow Eshun gives his nomination for our poll to find the greatest painting in Britain.

0826
Sports news with Garry Richardson.

0834
Are the problems of society due to our decadence? The Conservatives' John Hayes and writer William Dalrymple discuss.

0838
A poll says the London bombings are driving tourists away from the Capital. Rebecca Marston has more.

0845
The Rev Leonard Payne tells us how he managed to arrest the dropping attendances at his services by going digital.

0848
Is the artist Jack Vettriano any good? Lyricist Sir Tim Rice and art critic Rachel Campbell debate.

0853
Steve Rosenberg investigates report from Russia today that a military submarine is stuck on the ocean floor.

0855
Chris Lowe looks at the dramatic final days leading to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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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.

50th anniversary of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
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, 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.
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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