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Tuesday 8th JanuaryÌý2008
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0600-0630
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0700-0730

0709
ÌýThe government wants to settle public sector pay awards over aÌýthree year cycle rather thanÌýone year.

0712 The Conservatives will today announce how they plan to reform the benefit system.

0717 The Tories are today putting forward a debate on adult education and attacking the government for cutting funds for some mature students.

0719 The business news.

0722 Is theÌýrise in energy prices justified, andÌýcan the Chancellor do anything about it?

0725 The sports news.
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0730-0800

0730
ÌýToday is primary day in New Hampshire - the milestone in the American presidential campaign.

0738 French President Nicholas Sarkozy gives his first news conference of the year today at a time when his private life is causing a stir in the media.

0744 Matthew Sweeney, one of the writers shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award for Poetry, reads part of his work.

0745 Thought for the day with Dr Reverend Alan Billings.

0749 The government wants public sector pay awards set for three years to bring them in line with the way that budgets for Whitehall departments are set.ÌýWe speak to Chancellor Alistair Darling.


0800-0830

0810ÌýÌý
We look at the political journey of welfare state reform which began 20 years ago in America, and the Tory's new benefit system proposals.

0820 The New Hampshire primaryÌýwill beÌýdecided today.

0825 The sports news.


0830-0900

0830
ÌýDavid Blunkett the former cabinet minister looks at waysÌýto prevent a growing segregation between rich and poor in this country and increase social mobility.

0842 The business news.

0846 The final report into the chaos that led thousands of young medics to take to the streets in protest last year is published today.

0850 Fiona Sampson, one of theÌýwriters shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award for Poetry, readsÌýpart of her work.

0852 Are we seeing another change in attitudes to nuclear power?
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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!

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.

(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 interviews 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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