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Thursday 24thÌýApril 2008
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Labour's Frank Field on the 10p tax row.

0716 Many children will have their education disrupted by today's strike. We speak to Shadow Schools Minister, Nick Gibb.

0722 Business with Greg Wood.

0724 Steve Kingstone speaks toÌýone of the friends of Madeleine McCann's parents.

0728 Sport with Garry Richardson.

0730-0800

0734
ÌýAre teachers and civil servants justified in going on strike for higher pay?

0740 Today's papers.

0743ÌýWhy Britain's butterflies need a long hot summer.

0747 Thought for the Day with Oliver McTernan.

0750 Why banksÌýare failing to disclose their true figures while they seek help from the taxpayer to improve liquidity in the markets.

0800-0830

0810
ÌýTeachers are staging a one-day strike over pay in their first national industrial action in two decades. Hear fromÌýSchools Minister, Jim Knight.

0818 The Ö÷²¥´óÐã's political editor, Nick Robinson, on Gordon Brown's 10p tax rate U-turn.

0821ÌýWe mark the opening of an exhibition of the war time cartoonist, David Low by asking two senior politicians whether they think political cartoons have changed for the better.

0825 Sport with Garry Richardson.


0830-0900

0832ÌýIn the third part of a four part series, our correspondent Mike Thomson has been to a high security transit camp in Goma, Eastern Congo.

0840 Business with Greg Wood.

0843ÌýAre TV inspired musicals in danger of swamping theatreland? We speak to Sir Peter Hall on the state of the West End.

0847 What is synthetic biology? Our science correspondent Tom Feilden looks at the strengths and potential pitfalls.

0854 Why South Africa is planning to carry out a mass culling of elephants.
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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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