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Wednesday 5th December 2007
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0709
 Could abortions be safely performed at doctor's surgeries?

0714 How should the prison capacity crisis be resolved?

0718 The business news.

0721 A chief constable has said that health and safety laws may jeopardise police work.

0725 Could thousands of deaths be avoided by providing quicker emergency treatment for strokes?

0728 The sports news.

0730-0800

0730
Should temporary agency workers be able to earn the same rights as permanent staff?

0740 Should the government employ an historian to give it advice on the lessons of history?

0745 Thought for the day with the Right Reverend James Jones.

0750 A combined United Nations/African Union force is taking over peacekeeping in Sudan by the end of the month. What are its chances of success?


0800-0830

0810
Does the decision to ban a leading paediatrician make Doctors less likely to voice their concerns about abusive parents?

0820 Britain's most senior anti-terrorism policeman has resigned.

0824 Could we be about to see an increase in illegal immigration via the new European Union countries?

0827 The sports news.


0830-0900

0830
 What should the international community do next to resolve the crisis in Darfur? Mike Thomson reports.

0837 The business news.

0842 Why have the Football Associations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland blocked the England woman’s team from going to the Olympics?

0847 Dozens of young British girls are being sold into prostitution after they are befriended by boys their own age.

0852 Was the last year of the Second World War the “most inglorious of Australia’s history as a fighting nation", as Sir Max Hastings has suggested.
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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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