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TUesday 11th October 2005
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0607
Mike Wooldridge describes the horror of the aftermath of the earthquake in Pakistan.

0609
Liberians go to the polls today to vote for a new president and parliament. Mark Doyle has more.

0615
High street giant Marks and Spencer unveils its trading figures today. More from Greg Wood.

0626
Does Wayne Rooney still bears grudges towards referee Milton Nielsen? Garry Richardson has more. 

0632
Andrew North reports from Balakot, on the powerful earthquake that hit the area. 

0635
What happens when asylum seekers, are deported from Britain? More from Karen Allen, who talked to a deported family in Malawi.

0637
Police have raided properties in London and Lincolnshire, suspected of being connected with a people smuggling ring. Neil Bennett reports.

0639
The BBC is to face the Government over the next television licence fee settlement. Torin Douglas tells us more.

0641
A review of today's papers in the UK and Germany.

0647
David Wilby looks at events Yesterday in Parliament.

0652
A report by MPs says fraud and error in benefits are so "astronomical". We speak to Tory Edward Leigh and Benefits minister James Plaskitt.

0709
We gauges reaction in the Pakistani community in Nottingham and from Shaista Aziz, a UK-based Oxfam aid worker, to South Asian earthquake.

0716
Marks & Spencer  has announced its latest sales figures. Greg Wood has the details.

0719
Lib Dems' Phil Willis reacts to animal rights terrorism following recent intimidating letters sent to firms by animal rights activists.

0721
Why is the government is setting up a dead birds' hotline as a precautionary measure against bird flu? Tom Heap has more.

0723
Detective Chief Supt Bill Skelly talks to us about the police operation against illegal immigration in UK.

0725
Garry Richardson with the sports news update.

0732
Home Office minister Paul Goggins and former Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay on the government's Racial and Religious Hatred Bill.

0743
Will David Blunkett be able to shake off the comedy aired about him last night? Nicola Stanbridge finds out.

0748
Thought for the day with the Right Reverend Tom Butler , Bishop of Southwark.

0751
Is it wrong for MPs to recommend applying for asylum? We speak to Verah Kachepa , who was deported to Malawi and her local MP in the UK, Labour's Jim Knight.

0810
Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed and UN's Salvano Briceno on the South Asia earthquake.

0822
We speak to John Banville, winner of the UK's most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, for his novel The Sea.

0826
The Royal Ascot race meeting will be return to Ascot next June. Garry Richardson has the details.

0831
Die Welt's Thomas Kielinger and ex-Europe Minister Denis MacShane talks to us about Germany's political logjam.

0836
Greg Wood has the business news update.

0839
Ex-TV executive David Elstein and ex-BBC boss Sir Christopher Bland on the BBC licence fee demands.

0846
The anchor and a section of the bow from from Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose are due to be raised today. Jane Peel reports.

0852
More on the South Asian earthquake from cricketer-turned-Pakistani politician Imran Khan and Zaffir Abbas.
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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?
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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