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	Thursday 22nd September 2005 PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.


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	0607	Jon Pienaar looks ahead to Charles Kennedy's end-of-conference speech.
	0609	A suspect in the failed July 21 London bombings is to be extradited to Britain today. Our correspondent, Daniel Sandford.
	0615	Business News from Greg Wood.
	0626	Sports News from Steve May.
	0632	Hurricane Rita is heading towards Texas, Alastair Leithead is there.
	0634	Trevor Phillips will tonight issue a warning about the state of race relations in the UK. Barney Choudhury reports.
	0637	British forces have scaled down their patrols in southern Iraq. Richard Galpin is in Baghdad.
	0639	Are people living near fields sprayed with pesticides at risk?
	0641	Today's newspaper review comes from the UK and Berlin.
	0647	Hear how smoking just one to four cigarettes a day triples the risk of heart disease.
	0650	When is a planet not a planet? Dr Brian Marsden of the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astro-Physics explains.
	0654	Funding in the health service. Nigel Edwards is policy director of the NHS Confederation.


	0709	Hurricane Rita became more threatening overnight. Alistair Leithead reports from Texas.
	0715	More on the impact of crop spraying. Sir Tom Blundell chair of The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.
	0718	Business news from Greg Wood.
	0721	What Britain's housing estates have in common with Iraq and Lebanon.
	0725	Sports news from Steve May.
	0732	The man responsible for drawing up a constitution for Europe tells us why he thinks Britain's EU presidency has been a disappointment.
	0743	New Labour meets existentialism - waiting for Gordo.
	0746	Hear about the preparations in the US ahead of Hurricane Rita.
	0750	Thought for the Day with Dr Mona Siddiqui, a Senior Lecturer in Arabic Islamic Studies.
	0753	Dr Paul Miller of the British Medical Association on the provision of healthcare in the NHS.


	0810	Head of the Commission for Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips, on racial segregation in Britain.
	0820	We go back 50 years, to the fire at Grey Gables.
	0832	What can be done to protect the health of those who live near fields sprayed with pesticides?
	0838	Greg Wood with a business update.
	0841	What politicians could learn from Britain's experience in Aden.
	0845	A look at the label shaking up the MOBOs - and putting Carnaby Street back in fashion.
	0850	The Lib Dems' conference ends today - Nick Robinson reflects on a week by the seaside.
	0854	Lord Ahmed and Dr Jeevan Singh Deol discussTrevor Phillips' warning of increased segregation.



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	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?



	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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