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Saturday 12th April 2008
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0700-0730

0709 Zambia is to host a regional summit on the Zimbabwe crisis

0713 Rivals parties make their final push before Italy goes to the polls

0718 Today's papers 0720 More trouble for Mr Brown this week over the Olympics

0724 People are drinking more than they realise because pubs are selling larger measures than they used to

0727 The sports news with Rob Bonnet

0730-0800

0733 Why is Robert Mugabe proving so difficult to remove from power

0739 Today's papers 

0742 A Lucian Freud painting is set to break all records at auction next month

0747 Thought for the Day with The Reverend Rob Marshall

0750 Can the Olympic torch relay continue?

0800-0830

0810 Families of British troops sent to war without the right equipment may be able to sue the government

0820 The author Fredrick Forsyth has come into possession of a letter from a retired secret agent.

0826 The sports news with Rob Bonnet

0830 Why have escalating house prices become so important to the British economy?


0830-0900

0835 Today's papers

0839 What really happened in Oxford after reports that there could be a muslim call to prayer ringing through the city?

0842 Luke Kibet is running the London marathon this Sunday, despite nearly losing his life in the Kenyan violence 

0845 The crucial Pennsylvania primary could decide who becomes the Democratic candidate in the American presidential election

0850 Will the Olympic protests have an effect on the UK relationships with China?

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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!

Charlotte gets the giggles.
Newsreader Charlotte Green gets the giggles after listening to the oldest recorded human voice. And here's some she had earlier.
- 28th March 2008
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.

Gil Scott-Heron (04/03/2008)
Life hasn't been easy for the 'god-father of rap', but as US politics gets interesting again, he's making a comeback.
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 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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