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Monday 21st January 2008
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The Chancellor, Alastair Darling, has put forward his rescue plan for Northern Rock.

0712 We report from the area in Afghanistan where the opium economy is healthiest.

0717 The Environmental Audit Committee has joined the opposition to bio fuels.

0722 The business news.

0728 The sports news.

0730-0800

0730 Edward Stourton in Afghanistan speaks to Shukria Barakzai, the leader of the independent Third Line Group in the Afghan parliament.

0738 Will the bill to ratify the Lisbon treaty face opposition in Parliament today?

0740 The paper review. 

0742 Our reporter Tom Feilden visits London Zoo to see the creatures on the new 'EDGE list'.

0745 Thought for the day with Clifford Longley.

0750 We ask Information Commissioner Richard Thomas how we can safeguard our data.


0800-0830

0810 Edward Stourton visits Musa Qala, a town re-taken by British Forces before Christmas, to see what has been achieved there.

0825 Shadow Chancellor George Osbourne on the Government's funding plan designed to help the private sale of Northern Rock.

0828 The sports news.


0830-0900

0830
Edward Stourton in Afghanistan speaks to the British ambassador in Kabul, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles.

0840
Nick Robinson and Robert Peston analyse the Government's decision on Northern Rock.

0845 The business update.

0847 We hear about some of the best known writers in literature, who happen to be anonymous!

0850 Pressure is growing for KLM to clear up serious allegations that it helped many senior Nazis to flee justice after World War Two.

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Thought for the Day

Thought for the Day for today and the last week can be heard from the Religion and Ethics Website

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!

Jim crashes the pips
James Naughtie keeps going on and on and on until Continuity cuts him off.
- 9th January 2008
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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