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Thursday 22ndÌýMayÌý2008
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0709 Manchester United fans celebrated winning the Champions League in Moscow. Correspondent James Rodgers was there.

0712 A man and a woman have been charged with neglect after the death of a seven year old girl. Sarah Campbell reports.

0715 Business with Greg Wood.

0718 Dr Kerry Brown ofÌýChatham HouseÌýon theÌýDalai Lama's visit to the UK.

0721ÌýShould marriage between first cousins be banned?

0724 Sport with Rob Bonnet.

0730-0800

0731 Why are British soldiers are back on the streets of Basra.

0735 Today's papers.

0738 The eighteenth-century slave trader who found himself sold into slavery.

0743 Our science correspondent Tom Feilden has been looking at some of the issues raised by recent advances in the science of the brain.

0748 Thought for the Day with Dom Antony Sutch, a Benedictine Monk.

0751ÌýHow much more is the price of oil going to rise?

0800-0830

0810ÌýAllegations a seven-year-old girl has died of neglect. Hear from Dr Eileen Munro, a child protection expert at the LSE.

0813ÌýThe Dalai Lama is in the UK this week. In an interview with the programme,Ìýhe insists his people did not want to break away entirely from China.

0822ÌýStephen Wooler, the chief inspector of CPSI, says that a some cases have failed because the prosecution hadn't been ready.

0826 Sport with Rob Bonnet.


0830-0900

0832 Lisa Jardine, head of fertility watchdog the HFEA on the issues of hybrid embryos, abortion and the family.

0836ÌýThe Tiger Who Came to Tea - we remember a children's classic as it hits 40.

0842 Business with Greg Wood.

0845 GCSE music students may have to resit their exam because some of the answers were printed on the back of the paper. Emma North reports.

0847 Hear from South Africa where migrant workers are beginning to head home following the recent violence.

0851ÌýCate Blanchett on how she wants to harness her celebrity to promote solar energy.

0855ÌýHow has British spying changed over the years?

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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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