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Tuesday 13th MayÌý2008
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0709
Dr Steven Tsang, China expert and fellow of St Anthony's College, Oxford,Ìýon the Chinese response to the earthquake.

0712ÌýIs too much emphasis put on national tests in schools?

0715 Business with Greg Wood.

0718 Is it a bad idea to sell off important infrastructure - nuclear power stations for example - to foreign owners?

0723 If the Lisbon Treaty is ratified by all member states, who could become the president of the European Council. Our Europe correspondent, Jonny Dymond, finds out.

0727 Sport with Garry Richardson.

0730-0800

0734
Our correspondent Mike Thomson reports on the difficulties in getting access to the Burmese authorities?

0741 Today's papers.

0744ÌýHillary Clinton is hoping for a big victory in West Virginia. James Coomarasamy reports.

0748 Thought for the Day with John Bell of the Iona Community

0751 Is the hunting ban working? We hear from MP Ann Widdecombe who believes the law is being regularly flouted.

0800-0830

0810
ÌýWhat is the scale of the earthquake in ChinaÌýcompared to previous ones in the country?

0817ÌýShould the Sats system of testing schoolchildren in England, be reformed, or even scrapped? The Schools Minister Jim Knight defends testing.

0826ÌýSportÌýwithÌýGarryÌýRichardson.Ìý


0830-0900

0831
The Conservative Party's Small Business Task Force is to investigate ways of improving Government support to small business.

0836 Our Middle East Correspondent Tim Franks reports from Jerusalem on the future of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

0839 Business with Greg Wood.

0843 The Professor of infectious diseases and medicine at St Georges University of London on the cost of delays in getting aid to victims of the cyclone in Burma.

0846ÌýHear the shortlist for this year's Turner Prize.

0849 An estimated 3 million Zimbabweans are now living in South Africa. Correspondent Will Ross in Johannesburg has been talking to one of them.

0852 What does it take to be a good person in a dog-eat-dog capitalist society?

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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, asÌýNick 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 failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004
Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 25th October 2003

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 aÌý comeback.
(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.
(26/11/07)
The legendary Jazz saxophonistÌýtalks about his time in prison, phone calls withÌýJohn Coltrane,Ìý9/11 and the ambitions of a Jazz survivor.
(17/11/07)
James Naughtie asks the President of Pakistan when he willÌýlift his country's state of emergency and what he is doing to tackle Islamist Terrorism.
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