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Saturday 22nd October 2005
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0709
A parrot which died in quarantine in the UK has tested positive for avian flu. David Shukman has more.

0711
Caroline Hawley in Baghdad on the issues surrounding Iraq's referendum and the kidnapping of journalist Rory Carroll.

0715
RAF Chinook helicopters are set to leave for Pakistan to help in earthquake relief efforts. More from Tim Muffet.

0719
Susannah Price tells us why the US wants the UN to act swiftly over a report implicating Syria in the death of Lebanese ex-PM Rafik Hariri.

0720
Mark Darcy looks at events Yesterday in Parliament.

0724
Garry Richardson with news on today's Premiership fixtures.

0732
US meteorologist Stacey Stewart on Hurricane Wilma. Economist Jack Chambless tells us why money shouldn't be wasted on rebuilding cities in disaster-prone areas.

0738
A review of today's papers with Vaughan Savidge.

0741
Is Darwinian evolution just a theory? Was the world created by Intelligent Design? Justin Webb finds out.

0753
Journalist Rory Carroll, who was kidnapped in Iraq tells us about his ordeal. We discuss the future of Iraq with the country's ex-governor, Rory Stewart.

0810
Has bird flu really arrived in Britain? We talk to the chief veterinary officer Dr Debbie Reynolds and Colin Blakemore of the Medical Research Council.

0817
With Ken Clarke out of the Tory leadership race, is the game up for the Tory Eurosceptics? We ask ex-deputy premier Lord Heseltine.

0823
A look at your letters.

0827
Is Vice Admiral Collingwood equally responsible for Lord Nelson's victory at Trafalgar? Archaeologist Max Adams responds.

0830
Garry Richardson with the sports news.

0834
Why has it taken so long to help quake relief efforts in Pakistan. We ask Defence Secretary John Reid.

0848
Luton division of Bedfordshire police's Cheif Supt Ivor Twydell on why his team plans to stop and search anyone wearing hooded tops.

0849
Hear the sound of Carmen sung in Xhosa, the tribal language known for its clicks.

0854
Does schooling really matter anymore? Teachers Clarissa Williams and Dr Martin Stephens discuss.
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Thought for the Day

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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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