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Monday 7th November 2005
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0607
The preliminary results from the Azerbaijan elections suggest that the ruling party has won overwhelmingly.

0609
India and Pakistan are to open the border dividing Kashmir today.

0615
A look at the business news with Greg Wood.

0626
The sports news with Steve May.

0632
There was an eleventh night of rioting in Paris last night.

0635
The Prime Minister will talk to his backbenchers today about his plans to change the law so that suspects can be held for 90 days.

0638
The paper reviews from Britain and Addis Ababa.

0641
More than 5000 former RUC officers are trying to get compensation for post traumatic stress they claim to have suffered from working in North Ireland.

0644
A survey for the BBC's Real Story has shown that there is a national shortage of environmental health officers that could put the public at risk.

0647
The latest news from the Tory leadership campaign.

0650
We talk to Graham Stringer, a Labour MP on the left but not a regular rebel in the division lobbies, about the labour back benches.

0709
President Chirac has made his first public statement about the rioting in France after the eleventh night of rioting.

0716
We talk to Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, a former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, about the Government's proposal for a 90-day detention period.

0717
The business news with Greg Wood.

0721
The sports news with Steve May.

0735
A look at the debate surrounding speed cameras which has pitted some motoring lobbies against the Police.

0740
The legendary New York music venue CBGB's is on the verge of closure.

0745
Thought for the day with Clifford Longley a Religious Commentator.

0755
We talk to Hazel Blears about the Government's plan to change the law so that terror suspects can be held for 90 days without charge.

0810
After the eleventh night of riots in Paris President Chirac has appealed for calm in an attempt to restore public order. What is the nature of the problem that the French Government faces?

0820
Who was the greater scientist  Albert Einstein or Sir Isaac Newton?

0825
The sports news with Steve May.

0830
The President of China, Hu Jintao, comes to Britain on a state visit this week.

0840
The business update with Greg Wood.

0847
According to the Church of England Baptisms are the new Weddings as unmarried couples have been using the Church Baptism of their children to solemnise their own relationships.

0850
The Sunday Telegraph's Matthew D'Ancona and The Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee discuss Tony Blair's situation as he talks to his backbenchers today.
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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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