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Saturday 3rd May 2008
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0700-0730

0709
The London Mayor results arrive finally

0712
There's a big effort going on to clean up oil on a beach in north-east Scotland

0716 Representatives of the Dalai Lama travel to China today for talks with the Government

0720 Today's papers

0724 Walkers in the Peak District are being asked to help plant around 150,000 cotton grasses

0725 The sports news with Rob Bonnet

0730-0800

0730
 What the election results mean for Labour's relationship with voters in the south

0735 In London the local elections have produced some dramatic results

0738 Today's papers 

0742 An investigation by the Financial Times has established that the Crown Prosecution Service has decided not to prosecute anybody case of forgery in the national archives

0749
Though for the Day with Catherine Peppinster

0752
Robert Mugabe finally accepted he didn't win the presidential election.

0800-0830

0810 Justice Minister Jack Straw talks to us about Thursday's local elections and the effects on Labour 

0820 Two representatives of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrive in China today

0825 The sports news with Rob Bonnet



0830-0900

0830 The London Mayor, Boris, gives us his first interview

0835 Today's papers

0839 John Burnside has researched the history of child abuse and has just returned from Austria. He gave us his thoughts on the Josef Fritzl incest case 

0846 The Sealed Knot celebrates its 40th birthday with a massive re-enactment of the Battle of Naseby

0850 After such a drubbing in the local elections, is Gordon Brown facing the same fate as John Major?
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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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