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Wednesday 20th February 2008
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0700-0730

0709
 Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg on the latest DNA data scandal.

0714 Barak Obama has won the Wisconsin US presidential primary.

0717 How will doctors respond to the Health Secretary’s planned changes sick notes?

0720 The business news.

0725 Are the Government jeopardising the health and safety of prisoners?

0728 The sports news.

0730-0800

0730
Following the electoral defeat of his supporters, can President Musharraf hold onto power in Pakistan?

0736 The Pentagon is to try and shoot down one of its own satellites.

0740 Should the practice of snaring be banned in Scotland?

0745 Thought for the day with the Right Reverend James Jones.

0750 Nearly a quarter of full time university students drop out before graduating. Has the strategy to combat the problem failed?


0800-0830

0810
The CPS has admitted that for over a year it failed to run checks on the DNA profiles of 2,000 crime suspects. 

0815 The Health Secretary Alan Johnson explains his plan to change the "sick note culture."

0822 Barack Obama's speeches have brought the art of rhetoric back to centre stage.

0826 The sports news.


0830-0900

0830
 Should immigrants have to be able to speak English before they can become British citizens?

0840 The business news.

0836 Ian Paisley Junior's resignationhas put one of Northern Ireland's enduring political dynasties under threat.

0843 Academics have found that more than half of modern English comes from old French.

0849 Are novelists inevitably going to be disappointed with the film adaptation of their work?

0855 Tory frontbencher David Willets suggests new ways of thinking about the ties that bind a society together.
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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.

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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