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Thursday 27th October 2005
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0607
At least 10 people died in a fire at a detention centre at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. More from Geraldine Coughlin.

0609
Britain has summoned Iran's chargé d'affaires following from its new president's comments about Israel. Bridget Kendall reports.

0615
More on the cost of doorstep lending and why NYSE halted Huntingdon Life Sciences debut, with Greg Wood.

0626
Charlton dumps Carling Cup holders Chelsea out of the competition. Garry Richardson with the details.

0631
Sean Curran and Jane Dreaper looks at the controversy surrounding the bill to ban smoking in England.

0636
Sarah Mukherjee reports on the Prince of Wales' plea over climate change.

0638
Tim Franks gives his perspective on the meeting of EU leaders in London today over globalisation.

0642
A review of today's papers in the UK and China.

0648
David Wilby looks at events Yesterday in Parliament.

0653
Andrew Harding reports on the famine crisis in North Korea.

0709
Israeli Deputy Ambassador in London, Zvi Rav-Ner says Iran is becoming a "real source of instability for the peace of the world".

0714
Leading scientist Sir David King tells us why he supports Prince Charles' warning about climate change.

0718
High Street retailer Boots unveils a drop in profits. More from Greg Wood.

0720
Romania's president-elect Traian Basescu on why his country should join the EU.

0725
Garry Richardson with all the action as it happened from yesterday's Carling Cup.

0732
Why did the government initially resist EU plans to tackle bird flu? Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett responds. Tory Oliver Letwin comments.

0743
Sarah Mukherjee on her day with Prince Charles at his farm in Gloucestershire.

0746
Thought for the day with Dom Antony Sutch, a Benedictine Monk.

0750
We speak to Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt about reports of a Cabinet revolt over smoking ban plans.

0810
The Prince of Wales tells us why he believes that climate change is the greatest challenge facing mankind.

0825
Gary Richardson has the latest sports news.

0831
The EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso outlining his views about the future of Europe.

0841
Greg Wood has the latest on the Competition Commission's preliminary thoughts about doorstep lending.

0844
We speak to World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon's son about his decision to release his father's private diaries.

0849
Is Prince Charles' vision of the small-scale specialist producer out of touch with modern reality? Hear our discussion.
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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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