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Thursday 20th December 2007
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0700-0730

0709
 Jacob Zuma, the new leader of South Africa's ANC, looks likely to be charged with corruption.

0711 Russian authorities are on the verge of pulling out of an exhibition at the Royal Academy.

0716 Do 30-50 year-olds need to rein in their drinking?

0719 The business news.

0721 Strict caps on emissions from planes are expected to be rejected by Europe's environment ministers later today.

0725 The three British residents released from Guantanamo Bay are all being held by police in the UK.

0728 The sports news.

0730-0800

0730 The penalties for using a mobile phone while driving are getting tougher.

0740 A group of families in Scotland have embarked on the Fife Diet, eating only locally produced food where possible.

0745 Thought for the day with Reverend Angela Tilby.

0750 A newspaper group has banned illegal sex adverts from their titles.


0800-0830

0810
 Is Britain becoming a world exporter of cannabis? We look at the cannabis factories springing up all over the UK.

0820 A love story about the musicians Robert Schumann and his wife Clara is being staged at the Royal Opera House.

0825 The sports news.


0830-0900

0830
 Was the outgoing Chief Scientific Adviser Sir David King muzzled by the government?

0837 Almost half our listed buildings are churches, but many are facing a crisis.

0842 The business news.

0845 Is the literary academic being overlooked for book-judging panels in favour of celebrities?

0850 We return to Fallujah, three years after one of the fiercest battles in the Iraq war left the city in Ruins. 

0855 Should our political leaders be open about their religious beliefs?

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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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