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Thursday 13th March 2008
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0709: What is the long term significance of Alistair Darling's comments on Incapacity Benefit?

0712: It's the eve of Parliamentary elections in Iran. Correspondent Jon Leyne is in Tehran.

0715: Scientists in Washington State believe they may have found a way of delaying the ageing process. We speak to one of the researchers, Dr Brian Kennedy.

0720: Can young people in France "Work More to Earn More"? Correspondent Emma Jane Kirby went to Montpellier to find out.

0725: Sport with Garry Richardson.

0730-0800

0730:ÌýThe Chief Constable of Merseyside, on why the police need more power to extradite criminals who've fled abroad.

0740: A look at the day's papers.

0743: The impact of government forecasts with Robert Chote, Director of the IFS.

0747: Thought for the Day with Reverend Angela Tilby.Ìý

0750: Terry Pratchett tells us why he's donating half a million pounds to fight Alzheimer's disease.
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0800-0830

0810: Is the government short of money and too optimistic on borrowing, or has this been a Budget for stability? We speak to the Chancellor, Alistair Darling.

0820: How have the visual arts reflected the natural world over the centuries? We find out with Sir David Attenborough.

0827: Sport with Garry Richardson.


0830-0900

0835: We speak to a survivor of what became known as the Candelaria Massacre - committed in Rio de Janeiro in 1993.Ìý

0840: Professor Ismail Serageldin tells us why the Islamic world is suffering a "knowledge deficit".

0848: Is there still a demand for adventure classics like Treasure Island? We ask writers Frank Cottrell Boyce and Meg Rosoff.

0853: A final word on the Budget with political editor Nick Robinson.

0856: In the fourth of her reports looking back at the countdown to war in Iraq, Sanchia Berg speaks to Iain Duncan Smith.

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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!

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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