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Friday 18th November 2005
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0607
President Bush will meet President Putin today.

0609
The historian David Irving is being held in Austria, where holocaust denial is a criminal offence.

0615
Business news with Rebecca Marston.

0625
Steve May has the latest cricket news from Pakistan.

0630
Conrad Black, former owner of the Telegraph, begins his trial for fraud in Chicago today.

0635
The Prime Minister will deliver a speech today defending the proposed education reforms.

0638
The benefits system is being labelled as "too complicated" and prone to fraud and error.

0641
UN Special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Novak, will make a statement this morning on the American refusal to allow him to visit Guantanamo Bay.

0645
A review of today's papers in the UK and Australia.

0650
Yesterday in Parliament with Robert Orchard.

0655
Roger Harrabin speaks to Halldor Thorgeirsson, science coordinator for the UN conference on climate change in Montreal next month.

0709
Publisher and broadcaster Andrew Neil discusses the charges for fraud against Lord Black, the former proprietor of the Telegraph.

0715
Iain Watson reports from Ipswich on the response from Labour councillors to the proposed education reforms.

0718
Rebecca Marston reports on the fall in Disney's profits.

0720
Martin Hiller, spokesman for the WWF climate change programme, claims global warming is threatening the world's fish.

0726
Sports update with Steve May.

0732
Secretary General of Amnesty Irene Khan discusses torture.

0738
Stephen Dorril, author of a critical history of MI6, discusses the momentous decision to auction the only copy of the letter which led to the foundation of the Secret Intelligence Service, in aid of Children in Need tonight.

0742
Alan Johnston reports from the newly opened Egyptian frontier with Gaza.

0747
Thought for the Day with the Right Reverend Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford.

0750
Clarissa Williams, head of Tolworth Girls in Kingston, and Malcolm Noble, head of Bexleyheath School, discuss government proposals for education policy.

0810
Benefits Minister James Plaskett and Tory spokesman on Work and Pensions David Willetts, discuss the inadequacies of the benefits system.

0822
Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth and environmentalist David Bellamy discuss wind farms.

0827
Sports news with Steve May.

0832
UN Special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Novak, has made a statement in Geneva.

0834
Controversial Dutch MP Aayan Hirsi Ali, who has been in hiding since the murder of her collaborator, film maker Theo Van Gogh, discusses the recent race riots in Europe.

0840
Rebecca Marston reports on copper prices hitting a new record.

0845
Lewis Page and Paul Ingram, a senior analyst at the British American Security Council, discuss the replacement of Britain's Trident missiles.

0850
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has revealed that 90% of new housing estates in the north of England are sub-standard. Luke Walton reports from a new housing estate in County Durham, whilst Peter Jordan, from the builders Persimmon, defends current building standards.
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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.

Edward Stourton interviews the President of Mexico, Vincente Fox, and Tom Shannon, the United States Under Secretary of State with responsibility for the Americas, on the Summit of the Americas in Argentina and the prospect of a free trade agreement for the region.
President Vincente Fox.
Under Secretary of State Tom Shannon.
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.
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