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Saturday 1st December 2007
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0700 - 0730

0709:
Gordon Brown meets Labour's national executive committee this morning, there will be talk of party funding.

0712: Labour peer Lord Ahmed has arrived in Khartoum, it's hoped he'll be able to help jailed teacher Gillian Gibbons.

0716: A look at today's papers.

0720: The American motorcycle stuntman, Evel Knievel, has died in Florida, at the age of sixty-nine.

0724: Yesterday in Parliament.

0728: Sports news with Steve May.

0730-0800

0732:
Are falling house prices necessarily a harbinger of economic doom?

0738:
A look at today's papers.

0740:
Old wives tales still surround the business of having babies, but some from 1671 are coming up for auction.

0747:
Thought for the Day with Catherine Pepinster.

0750:
Questions are being raised over the value of genetic tests which claim to predict future disease.

0800-0830

0810:
David Abrahams the property developer at the heart of Labour's latest funding scandal, has written in the Guardian that the whole business was "a product of cockup, not conspiracy". Vince Cable and James Purnell.

0820:
Michael Jackson's album 'Thriller' was released 25 years ago today, it became the biggest selling album of all time.

0825:
Sports News with Steve May.


0830-0900

0832:
Lord Ahmed arrived in Khartoum this morning, where it's hoped he'll be able to help gaoled teacher Gillian Gibbons. We speak to former UN special rapporteur on human rights in Sudan, Gerhard Baum.

0840:
Russians go to the polls tomorrow and President Putin looks set to win by a substantial majority, but is his success mainly down to luck?

0845:
A look at today's papers.

0850:
Should homeopathy have any role in the treatment of HIV/AIDS? As part of World AIDS Day the homeopathy society is holding a debate.

0855:
Is Labour's latest funding scandal being blown out of all proportion?
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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.
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.

Sonny Rollins (26/11/07)
The legendary Jazz saxophonist talks about his time in prison, phone calls with John Coltrane, 9/11 and the ambitions of a Jazz survivor.
President Pervez Musharraf (17/11/07)
James Naughtie interviews asks the President of Pakistan when he will lift his country's state of emergency and what he is doing to tackle Islamist Terrorism.
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