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Friday 16th September 2005
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0607
There's a fuel protest on the M4 in Wales today. Nils Blythe is our business correspondent.

0609
Home Secretary Charles Clarke has backed calls for police to be able to hold terror suspects for up to three months without charge. Our political correspondent is Reeta Chakrabarti.

0615
The business news from Rebecca Marston.

0626
The sports news from Steve May.

0631
President Bush has promised that the US government will do whatever it takes to rebuild the hurricane-hit Gulf Coast. Our Washington correspondent, Justin Webb.

0634
James Naughtie has been talking to Tony Blair at the UN summit in New York and tells us what he had to say.

0636
There are concerns about the government's housing policy. John Andrew is our local government correspondent.

0639
The Child Poverty Action Group is threatening legal action against the Inland Revenue. Our social affairs correspondent is Kim Catcheside.

0641
Today's newspaper review comes from the UK and New Zealand. 

0647
Campaigning is reaching a climax at rallies in Berlin. Andrew Hosken reports from Germany.

0652
The Plaid Cymru leader, Ieuan Wyn Jones will be calling for unity at the party's annual conference today. He explains the need to modernise the party. 

0708
What do people who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina make of George Bush promise not to let them down?

0713
The Home Secretary ordered the detention of seven Algerians yesterday. Gareth Pierce represents three of the men and joins us.

0716
Have the efforts of fuel protesters however feeble so far, worked?

0719
Two supermarkets have cut the price of petrol. Rebecca Marston with the latest business news.

0721
The Child Poverty Action Group says it will take legal action against the Inland Revenue unless it makes changes to the tax credit system. Kate Green of the charity and David Willetts, shadow trade and industry secretary.

0725
Steve May with the sports news.

0733
The Government is to launch a defence of its housing policy in the face of strong criticism from housing associations. David Orr, the chief executive of the National Housing Federation and David Milliband, the minister for communities and local government.

0742
The young New York novelist Jonathan Saffron Foer has written a book about the 9/11 attacks - called Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. James Naughtie spoke to him about it.

0747
Thought for the day with the Reverend Roy Jenkins, Baptist Minister in Cardiff.

0750
Lord Morris on the home secretary Charles Clarke's new terror laws.

0810
Prime Minister Tony Blair tells us what he wants to achieve in his final years in power and who will take over from him.

0834
How should women respond to a warning from doctors it defies nature to delay having children beyond the age of 35?

0840
Radical groups operating on university campuses in Britain pose a serious threat, according to a study by Brunel University's centre for intelligence and security studies. Its director, Professor Anthony Glees explains. 

0844
Business update with Rebecca Marston.

0847
The chief executive of Digital UK on the announcement of the formal go-ahead and timetable for the switch-over from analogue to digital television.

0851
Our reporter Zubeida Malik has met members of a team of Muslim women from the UK are travelling to Iran to compete in the International Women's Games.

0854
As yet another version of Pride & Prejudice hits our screens does the Jane Austen heroine still offer a model to women?
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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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