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Monday 17th October 2005
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0607
The Law Lords will decide whether evidence obtained by torture should be used in British courts.

0609
The estimated number of deaths caused by the earthquake in Pakistan is still rising.

0620
Business news with Greg Wood.

0625
Sports news with Steve May.

0631
A group of British scientists are travelling to southeast Asia to study bird flu.

0634
Votes are still being counted in the referendum on a new Iraqi constitution.

0638
The four candidates for the Tory leadership will face the party's MPs today.

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

0644
Raphael Rowe reports on the anti-corruption campaigners who want to take the Department of Trade and Industry to court.

0650
EU environment ministers are meeting today to discuss climate change and carbon emissions.

0655
Professor Danny Dorling of Sheffield University discusses his study of murder in Britain.

0709
Spokesman for the Disasters Emergency Committee and UK manager of Islamic Relief,Waseem Yaqub, on aid to Pakistan.

0714
President of the NFU Tim Bennett discusses bird flu.

0718
Business update with Greg Wood.

0720
Conservative MP Gerald Howarth declares his choice for the next Tory leader ahead of the first ballot tomorrow.

0725
The trial of the man accused of murdering British tourist Peter Falconio in the Australian outback four years ago begins today.

0729
Sports news with Steve May.

0732
Professor Tony Payne of Bristol University and Environment Minister Elliot Morley on climate change.

0741
Proposals to build new houses next to Anne Hathaway's cottage are being debated today.

0747
Thought for the Day with the Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks.

0750
Lib Dem peer Lord Carlile QC, discusses whether evidence obtained through torture abroad should be valid in UK courts.

0810
Bird flu has arrived in Europe. Sir Don Curry, chair of the foot and mouth inquiry and chair of the Medical Research Council Colin Blakemore, discuss the measures needed to prevent its spread.

0825
John Peel's autobiography is published today - his widow Sheila Ravenscroft explains her family's contribution.

0828
Sports with Steve May.

0833
Justin Webb investigates the recently revealed levels of poverty in America.

0838
Business update with Greg Wood.

0841
An interview with Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko, who is in London to receive the first Chatham House Prize.

0849
Editor of Media Week, Phillip Smith, and Paul Quirk of the British Association of Record Dealers on the ubiquitous free DVDs accompanying newspapers.

0856
Colonel Tim Collins and director of Amnesty International Kate Allen, discuss the use of evidence obtained through torture.
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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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