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Tuesday 6th May 2008
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0709
A review into business practices at BAE Systems has been released. Hear from Robert Peston, our business editor.

0712 Listen again to Mike Thomson's report for us from Burma last year.

0716 Business with Greg Wood.

0719 Have CCTV cameras had much impact on cutting crime?

0721 A report from Worcester where people have been gathering to watch a pair of peregrine falcons feeding their two chicks in a church tower in the city centre.

0725 Sport with Arlo White.

0730-0800

0732 Whyis Wendy Alexander, the leader of the Labour party in Scotland now backing a referendum on independence?

0734 We ask whether big business has a role to play in fighting world poverty.

0740 Today's papers.

0743 Our North American editor Justin Webb on how a disputed election in Florida could once again be crucial in deciding who becomes the next US president.

0748 Thought for the Day with John Bell of the Ioana Community.

0751 Dan Collison of Save the Children in South East Asia and Tin Htar Swe, Head of BBC Burmese on the devastating cyclone that hit western Burma on Saturday.

0800-0830

0810
Hear from Lord Woolf, the former Lord Chief Justice, who has published a report into ethical standards at BAE Systems. The independent study calls for tougher anti-bribery measures.

0819 Chewing gum and chocolate, how two American dynasties are merging their sweet empires.

0824 The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson on Wendy Alexander's change of heart.

0826 Sport with Arlo White.


0830-0900

0832
Why have only 3% of street robberies in London been solved using CCTV cameras?

0835 Our Middle East Correspondent, Tim Franks talks to one of the more than 400,000 Jewish settlers, who live on occupied territory.

0839 Business with Greg Wood.

0842 A reaction to Lord Woolf's BAE inquiry from Sir Menzies Campbell, who has followed this issue closely for some years.

0845 Why some British actors seem to have a bit of problem with American accents.

0851 It's the first World Climate Modelling Summit in Reading today, and as our science correspondent Tom Feilden reports, the mood is far from celebratory.

0856 Hear from Britain's ambassador in the Burmese capital Rangoon, Mark Canning.
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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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