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Thursday 6th December 2007
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0709
 The Home Office may announce plans to extend the period terrorist suspect can be held without trail today.

0714 Will the Bank of England cut interest rates?

0721The business news.

0725 How many schools cheat to make their exam results look better than they should?

0728 The sports news.

0730-0800

0730 How much will the government give each local authority this year?

0740 30,000 years of Art have been squished into one door stopping book.

0745 Thought for the day with John Bell.

0750 Brighton's council is considering banning anti-gay lyrics being sung by rappers in the town's pubs and clubs.


0800-0830

0810
 A brilliant paediatrician or an arrogant man with deep-seated attitudinal problems? We speak to the doctor banned by the GMC, Dr David Southall.

0826 The sports news.


0830-0900

0830
 The shadow home secretary David Davis responds to the expected announcement of the government's plans for extending the 28 day limit.

0837 The business news.

0844 Is a vote for Mitt Romney in the American Presidential Primaries, a vote for Satan?

0850 Boxing is back in the limelight, but should we celebrate?

0855 The government has accepted the idea that young black men need more role models.

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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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