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Monday 3rd October 2005
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0607
Ray Furlong in Berlin reports on Germany's inconclusive general election.

0615
UK chemist chains Boots and Alliance UniChem  are planning to merge. Rebecca Marston has the latest.

0626
Garry Richardson with the details on the Premiership title race.

0632
Jonny Dymond and Sarah Rainsford bring us the latest on the EU deadlock over Turkish entry.

0636
Norman Smith in Blackpool for the Tory annual conference  assesses the party's leadership battle.

0639
Jonathan Head in Indonesian has the latest on the hunt for the Bali suicide bombers' identities.

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

0645
Tory peer Norman Tebbit gives us his views on the challenges failing the Conservative party.

0648
Speeding drivers may escape a fine if they take lessons under a new government scheme. We speak to Mary Williams of the road safety charity Brake.

0651
Hear our discusson on the Tory leadership contest.

0709
Andrew Cooper of Populus says his polls suggest the Tory party needs to rebrand itself. Conservatives' Alan Duncan says his party must lose its obsession with Europe.

0715
Emin Sirin of Turkey's governing party talks to us about the EU's stalemate over his country's bid to join the bloc.

0718
Rebecca Marston with the business news.

0720
Rachel Harvey looks at Bali's economic future in the wake of the latest attacks on the island. We speak to Eddy Pratomo,Indonesian charge d'affaires in London.

0726
Garry Richardson has the sports news.

0733
Ian Watson finds out what the Tory party really wants. Conservative chairman Francis Maude tells us what's needed to transform his party's fortunes.

0747
What does Nimby or "not in my back yard" really mean? Sarah Mukherjee talks to ex-scriptwriter of classic sitcom Yes Minister, Sir Anthony Jay.

0749
Thought For the Day with the Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks.

0752
Education minister Bill Rammell on the government's campaign to make university places more accessible to students from poorer backgrounds.

0810
Will Turkey ever be part of the EU? We speak to Europe Minister Douglas Alexander and EU Parliamentarian Hans Peter Martin .

0820
Robin Marlar, president of the Marylebone Cricket Club tells us why he described girls' playing cricket as "outrageous". Cricketers Clare Connor and Holly Colvin comment.

0826
Garry Richardson with the sports news.

0830
Lynton Crosby - the Australian behind the Tory party's 2005 election campaign - mounts a vigorous defence of his efforts.

0839
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on the Bali bombings.

0842
The chief executive of furniture retailer MFI is to quit the firm after a slump in sales. Rebecca Marston has more.

0844
Hear more about today's annular solar eclipse  with astronomer Heather Couper.

0847
What is at stake as criminal barristers in England and Wales threaten action today over pay? We speak to Bridget Prentice, the minister responsible for Legal Aid.

0851
Hear Norman Smith's guide to picking an electable Tory leader. We speak to George Jones of the Daily Telegraph and Trevor Kavanagh of the Sun.
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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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