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Tuesday 9th August 2005
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0607
Space shuttleDiscovery will attempt to return to Earth today after being delayed due to bad weather. Alistair Leithead reports.

0609
The British Medical Association says a new training programme for doctors has left many unemployed. Adam Brimelow has the details.

0615
The petrol price hit a record high. Greg Wood has the business news.

0626
Will Aussie paceman Brett Lee make it for the third Test? Steve May with the Sports news.

0632
Shaun Ley and Neil Bennett assess the government's anti-terror plans after a controversial Islamic cleric  leaves the UK.

0635
Mike Thomson looks at Doctors' concerns about the growing use of health workers from countries with severe shortages of medical staff.

0638
UN nuclear watchdog the IAEA holds a crisis meeting today following Iran's decision to resume its nuclear programme. Emma Jane Kirby with the details.

0640
A review of today's papers in the UK and Japan.

0647
David Loyn reports from Mali, neigbouring Niger, where similar drought and famine problems are starting to affect the population.

0653
The ex-UN oil-for-food programme head has been accused by US investigators of taking bribes. Benon Sevan's lawyer Eric Lewis talks to us.

0709
Is space travel now nothing more than a spectator sport? Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees tells us why the Space Shuttle programme should be scrapped.

0713
The UN torture expert Manfred Nowak says Tony Blair's plans to deport Islamic extremists would fall foul of international human rights law.

0717
Is the voluntary code of practice - hoped to stop poaching of foreign healthworkers - working? The Royal College of Nursing's Tom Standford states his views.

0720
UK High Street sales drop this month. Greg Wood has the business news.

0721
Melissa Shields talks about her brother Michael jailed for attempted murder in Bulgaria. We also speak to his lawyer, Julian Linskill.

0725
Sport news with Steve May.

0731
The Colombian vice-president Francisco Santos says the three on-the-run Irish republicans will not escape justice. The DUP's Jeffrey Donaldson calls for their extradition to Colombia.

0739
Two jurors in the Jackson trial say they believe the singer was guilty of child abuse. Michael Jackson's lawyer Brian Oxman responds.

0745
Does a strategically-placed towel give a German a legally-binding claim on a sun-lounger? German lawyer Dr Ralf Hocker shares his views.

0748
Thought for the day with Anne Atkins.

0748
Ex-Tory MP Howard Flight says his party's plans to strengthen the leadership's grip over the parliamentary party are overly authoritarian.

0810
Has extremist Omar Bakri Mohammed left the UK for good? He tells Today he's prepared to return to stand trial for any offence. Plus Ian Macdonald QC on pre-trial hearings without juries.

0823
Reporter of BBC 2' programme 'Sad to be Gay', David Akinsanya says he hates being gay. What does the gay community think of that? We hear from Jason Pollock of Pride London.

0828
Steve May is in Hove for the start of a two-Test women's Ashes series.

0835
The BMA says the guidelines to stop "poaching" of overseas workers aren't effective. But the NHS's Alastair Henderson says the claim is "myth".

0844
Sudoku game grips the UK. Greg Wood has more.

0848
Guy Pratt, a bass guitarist - who's played with some of the biggest names in rock and pop - talks about his new show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

0852
NASA's Dave Drachlis with an update on the space shuttle Discovery's attempt to return to Earth today.

0855
Chris Lowe continues his series that looks at the dramatic final days of the Second World War in August 1945.
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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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