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Monday 5th May 2008
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0630-0700

0641 Blek the Rat takes our correspondent Emma Jane Kirby on a working tour around Paris.

0653 The charity "Changing Faces", launches a Face Equality campaign today. Hear from the founder Dr James Partridge.

0700-0730

0709 The chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Tony Lloyd, says that there was no real threat to Gordon Brown's position.

0714 Business with Greg Wood

0717 Boris Johnson says he wants to chair the Metropolitan Police Authority. Hear from the Labour peer Lord Harris.

0720 The sixtieth anniversary of Israel. Our Middle East correspondent, Tim Franks reports.

0724 What rail disruption is to be expected today and what does it mean for the Summer?

0727 Sport with Arlo White.

0730-0800

0734 How do you persuade the best people to take up teaching?

0739 An increase in the numbers of employers being prosecuted for hiring illegal immigrants. Our Social Affairs correspondent Andrew Bomford reports.

0743 Today's papers.

0746 Whatever happened to good neighbours? Hear from that bastion of the close knit community, West Yorkshire to find out what might have gone wrong.

0750 Thought for the Day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser.

0754 A powerful cyclone has hit Burma. Hear from the regional head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Bangkok.

0800-0830

0810
Why did Labour do so badly in the local government elections? Hear from Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development.

0821 Tom Feilden asked Bristol physicist Dr Len Fisher to recreate a beautiful science experiment.

0826
Sport with Arlo White.


0830-0900

0832
 We speak to the mother of an 11 month girl left paralysed after being hit by a car who's launching a campaign for a change in the law on dangerous driving.

0837 Can you change the attitude of the public by appealing to their social conscience?

0843 Business with Greg Wood.

0847 Why has trust in the people we live near eroded dramatically?

0850 The latest on the cyclone in Burma. Our correspondent Dan Griffiths reports from Bangkok.

0853 Does labour understand what its problems are? Steve Richards of the Independent and John Kampfner, former editor of the New Statesman discuss.
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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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