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Friday 1st February 2008
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0700-0730

0709
 A Conservative MEP faces expulsion from a group in the European Parliament for making a comparison to Nazi Germany.

0712
 A rescue operation has been taking place in the Irish Sea, where a ferry got into difficulties last night in the bad weather.

0715
The system under which the elderly in Scotland get free personal care has been shown to be hugely over budget.

0720 Should we have the call to prayer being broadcast across the streets of Oxford?

0725 The business news.

0728
The sports news.

0730-0800

0730
A senior al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan has been killed in a strike by an unmanned American missile in North Waziristan.

0735
A respected independent research organisation has given a positive economic forecast, very different from the gloomy punditry we've had recently. Who should we believe and what does this tell us about economic forecasting?

0741
The paper review.

0743
From today the islanders on Eigg, off the West of Scotland, will for the first time enjoy a 24 hour electricity supply.

0745 Thought for the day with Sir Jonathan Sacks. 

0750 Have David Cameron and the Tories been damaged by the Derek Conway affair?


0800-0830

0810
At its summit in Ethiopia the African Union is struggling to exert influence on the crisis in Kenya. We speak to the Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch Brown, who is at the African Union meeting.

0820 A german travel agent is offering special flights for nudists.

0827 The sports news.


0830-0900

0830
He used to be Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, now he's advising Senator Obama. We hear Zbigniew Brzezinski's vision for US Foreign policy.

0835 The latest US-led climate talks have ended in the past few hours. What have they achieved?

0840 One of the most famous photographs ever taken was captured 40 years ago today. 

0843 The business update.

0847 Foreign correspondents spend a lot of their lives travelling to find misery, but one journalist decided to make a journey in search of the happiest places in the world instead.

0850 What is believed to be the first video footage of SocGen's rogue trader has reportedly been sold for around £70,000.

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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!

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.

Zbigniew Brzezinski (01/02/08)
He used to be Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, and now he's advising presidential candidate Senator Obama. We hear his vision for US Foreign policy.
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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