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MondayÌý19thÌýSeptemberÌý2005
PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews.Ìý

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0607
What's the next step in the mounting diplomatic crisis over Iran's nuclear programme?

0609
Millions of Afghans have defiedÌýTaleban threats to vote in elections for a new national assembly. Andrew North is our correspondent in Kabul.

0615
Greg Wood has the business news.

0626
Garry RichardsonÌýwith the sports news.

0631
Angela Merkel's conservatives have won the German election...by just three seats. Ray Furlong is in Berlin.

0634
The Liberal Democrats are arguing about the future direction of the party. What's the mood at their conference in Blackpool?

0636
Plans for prisoners serving short sentences to be held in community jails will be set out by the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke today.ÌýOur home affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw, reports.

0640
Today'sÌýnewspaper review comes from the UK and Liberia.

0645
Britain has more television channels devoted toÌýpornography than any other country in Europe. But the big new growth area is apparently mobile phones. Our science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh reports.

0649
Our correspondent in Baghdad, Richard Galpin, has been considering to what extentÌýIraq has already degenerated into civil war.

0654
Teachers want more powers to restrainÌýbadly behaved children and to exclude them from school if need be. Steve Sinnott is the general secretary of the National Union of Teachers.

0709
Germany faces a deeply uncertain political future. Our reporter Andrew Hosken has been watching events unfold from Berlin.

0715
The chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality Trevor Phillips says that Britain is "sleep-walking" its way to becoming a society of segregation. We speak to his predecessor Lord Ouseley.

0719
TheÌýbusiness news from Greg Wood.

0721
The International Atomic Energy Agency is meetingÌý in Vienna today. What canÌýit do about Iran? We hear from Hans Blix, the former UN Iraq weapons inspector.

0727
Garry Richardson has the sports news.

0734
In BlackpoolÌýthe Liberal Democrats are reconsidering all their policies. Our political correspondent Iain WatsonÌýhas been out and about on the conference fringe and we hear from the party's campaign chairman, LordÌýRazzall.

0744
The tawny owl is Britain's most common owl species, but there are fears that its numbers are in decline.ÌýThe British Trust for Ornithology wants people to take part in an owl survey. Our environment correspondent Tim Hirsch finds out more.

0747
Thought for the Day. The speaker is the Reverend Dr Alan Billings.

0751
Political leaders inÌýGermany will begin the scramble to form a workable coalition government today. Our Europe editor is Mark Mardell and we hear from Friedrich Bokern,ÌýaÌýCDU MP in BerlinÌýand Walter Momper, former Berlin mayor and a member of the SPD party.

0810
The man who was Britain's most senior police officer,Ìýthe former Metropolitan Police Chief Constable, Lord Stevens.

0824
As residents return to New Orleans we'll hear how the city'sÌýblues musicians are starting to tell the story of Hurricane Katrina.

0831
A group of Bishops in the Church of Englandsays that if the government will not apologise for the war in Iraq then the church should meet Muslim leaders to say sorry for what has happened. The Rt Rev Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford chaired the house of bishops working group that came up with the idea.

0835
Greg Wood with a business update.

0838
The first of three commissioned essays from political veterans. This week the Liberal DemocratÌýLord Steel offers adviceÌýtoÌýhis party as it begins its conference.

0841
The Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Mark Oaten on his party'sÌýannual conference in Blackpool.

0845
Tony Blair believes theÌýÂ鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's coverage of Hurricane Katrina is "full of hate" for America, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has claimed in a speech. Listen to what Mr Murdoch had to say.

0848
ManyÌýBritish MuslimsÌýare unhappy about the Iraq war and feel alienated by the government's anti-terrorÌýlegislation. So have they been turning to the Liberal Democrats instead? Zulfi Bukhari is from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee andÌýBaroness Kishwer Falkner speaks for the Lib Dems in the Lords.

0852
The people ofÌýAfghanistan went to the polls yesterday. Many of the candidates are warlords and former Taleban. Labour MEP Richard Howitt, the foreign affairs spokesman for the EuropeanÌý parliament.

0854
How willÌýGermany 's political stalemate be resolved and how will a "grand coalition" impact on the rest of Europe? Hugh Williamson, Berlin correspondent for the Financial Times andÌýGisella Stuart, aÌýGerman-born Labour MPÌýfor Birmingham.Ìý
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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, asÌýNick 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 failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004
Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 25th October 2003

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.
What is Charlotte Green giggling about?
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.

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, inÌýRome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
Part 1
Part 2
First Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaksÌýto our reporter Zubeida Malik aboutÌýhis ordeal and how heÌýcontinues toÌýcampaign 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).
, 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.ÌýFirst 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 toÌý 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 toÌýJamesÌýNaughtie
Her questions surrounding theÌýWhite 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.

Zubeida Malik talked to Prince Turki Al Faisal - the new Saudi Ambassador to Britain before the war in Iraq
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