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Wednesday 19th December 2007
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0709
 Should we have the right to seek hospital treatment anywhere in Europe?

0714 Should politicians have the final say on who becomes a peer?

0718 Young physicists have complained about "swingeing cuts" in science funding.

0721 The business news.

0725 Scores of dead dolphins are being found on the Iranian side of the Persian Gulf.

0727 The sports news.

0730-0800

0730
A child who had gene therapy has developed leukaemia two years after his treatment.

0740 A four hundred metre long chariot racetrack in Colchester is under threat from developers.

0745 Thought for the day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser.

0750 Jacob Zuma has become leader South Africa's ruling African National Congress.


0800-0830

0810
The EU thinks we should all have the right to seek medical treatment abroad and that foreigners should be treated on the NHS. What are the implications of "health tourism"?

0820 Are Bradford and Bingley interested in buying part of Northern Rock?

0823 What is the market value of a peerage?

0827 In the sports news, we speak to footballer Sol Campbell.


0830-0900

0830
Baby units in England are having to close their doors to new admissions on a weekly basis. 

0837 Where does the balance fall between civil liberties and the security of the nation? We speak to the commentators Henry Porter and Polly Toynbee.

0842 The business news.

0850 Midnight mass is happening earlier in parishes across the country because of drunks.

0855 The BBC World Service first broadcast 75 years ago today.
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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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