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Wednesday 7th September 2005
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0607
Will people be satisfied with the inquiry, called by George Bush, into the early stages of the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina?

0609
Nick Bryant is in New Delhi where the Prime Minister is beginning two days of talks

0615
Business news with Greg Wood

0626
Steve May has the latest sports news.

0632
GP practices in England are being told that they must make it easier for patients to book advance appointments.

0635
The Institute for Public Policy Research did a study into different nationalities that have come to live in Britain in the last fifteen years. To see the full migration survey compiled by IPPR think tank in conjunction with the BBC, click here www.bbc.co.uk/bornabroad

0638
James Coomarasamy gives the latest from New Orleans on compulsory evacuations.

0641
The review of the papers from Britain and Delhi.

0647
Scientists are concerned that China's industrial boom will inevitably result in a huge growth in greenhouse gas emissions.

0650
Egyptians are going to the polls for today's presidential elections.

0653
Who walked off with the top prize at The Mercury Awards?

0709
Our correspondent Jane Peel talks to the residents of some of the US cities affected by the hurricane Katrina.

0716
Dr Jonathan Boyce of the Healthcare Commission talks about a survey into NHS appointments at general practices.

0720
Business update with Greg Wood.

0724
Our correspondent Rory Maclean looks at phone tapping in Netherlands where the use of phone taps in criminal cases has become a routine.

0729
Steve May has the sports news.

0734
Sir Andrew Green of the Migration Watch organisation and Nick Pearce , the director of Institute for Public Policy Research, discuss the latest findings into migrating workers who come into Britain. To see the full migration survey compiled by IPPR think tank in conjunction with the BBC, click here www.bbc.co.uk/bornabroad

0746
The thought for the day with Akhandadhi Das, a Vaishnav Hindu teacher and theologian.

0750
The shadow chancellor George Osborne explains the Conservative plans for simpler and fairer taxes.

0810
We talk to Diana Church, who has complained to the Prime Minister about the NHS booking system, Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the BMA's GP committee, and the Health Minister Lord Warner.

0822
Park keepers can make all the difference between whether parks are well used and loved or subject to graffiti, crime and vandalism.

0826
Steve May has the sports update.

0832
Our correspondent Nick Bryant reports on the political and economic situation in India amid the UK Prime Minister's visit to the country.

0836
Business update with Greg Wood.

0842
The Immigration Minister Tony McNulty looks at the migrating situation in Britain.

0845
Steve Winyard, a co-author of the latest report by the Royal National Institute for the Blind, gives us an insight into the connection between smoking and blindness.

0854
The Canadian director and writer David Cronenberg talks about his latest film "A History of Violence".

0856
Egyptians can for the first time ever choose between different candidates for their president when they vote in elections today.
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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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