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Friday 16thÌýMayÌý2008
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0709
Our reporter Mike Thomson talks to some of the aid workers who are allowed to work in Burma.

0714 Business with Nick Cosgrove.

0716ÌýThe Chief Executive of British Airways Willie Walsh onÌýoil prices, profits and Terminal 5.

0722ÌýWhy Jack the Ripper still haunts the public imagination more than a century after he committed his crimes.

0727 Sport with Arlo White.

0730-0800

0735
The former Lord Chief Justice Lord Woolf tells us why he thinks British citizens tortured by a foreign state should be able to sue them here in Britain.

0741 Today's papers.

0744 Arts correspondent Razia Iqbal reportsÌýfrom CannesÌýon an Israeli film examining the 1982 Beirut massacres.

0748 Thought for the Day with Abdal Hakim Murad.

0752 The Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission Sir Christopher Meyer on the media's coverage of the apparent cluster of suicides in Bridgend.

0800-0830

0810Ìý
It is feared up to 50,000 people may have died in the earthquake in China. Quentin Sommerville reports from the town of Dujiangyan in Sichuan.

0817 Official death figures from Burma have risen to more than 43,000. Hear from Mark Farmaner of the Burma Campaign UK.

0820 Is Gordon Brown's political future on a firmer footing after this week's flurry of activity? Our political editor Nick Robinson has been mulling over that question.

0824ÌýWhat kind of society is the Chelsea Flower Show pandering to these days?

0829 Sport with Arlo White.


0830-0900

0835ÌýThe chairwoman of Ofqual, Kathleen Tattersall, explains why she thinks we can't expect perfection from exam markings.

0840ÌýHear some of the work of Britain's worst ever poet which is becoming a collectors item.

0846 Business Nick Cosgrove.

0849 Where are the noisiest parts of 23 towns and cities in England?

0852 How can the environmental impact of air travel be reduced?
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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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