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Monday 2nd December 2007
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President Putin's party has won more than 60% of the votes in Russia's general election

0714 The government's new "cancer strategy" is being announced today.

0717 The British peers are to meet the Sudanese President this morning to attempt to secure the release of Gillian Gibbons.

0721 The business news.

0725 The government is not meeting its targets on lifting children out of poverty.

0728 The sports news.

0730-0800

0730 Despite international pressure, the humanitarian crisis in Darfur is going from bad to worse. Mike Thomson reports.

0740 Bagpipes are back.

0745 Thought for the day with Rhidian Brook.

0750 A BBC investigation has found that some Indian women in Britain are aborting their babies just because they are girls.


0800-0830

0810
Will the government's new strategy improve cancer care? We talk to the National Cancer Director Professor Mike Richards.

0820 The genteel world of bridge is under siege from a new breed of aggressive players.

0828 The sports news.


0830-0900

0830
 We speak to one of the two-and-a-half million displaced people living in refugee camps in Darfur.

0836 Are competitions for musicians good for music?

0842 The business news.

0847 The House of Lords will be continuing their debate on the abortion and fertility laws today.

0854 President Putin's party has won a landslide victory in the Russian elections.

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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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