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It's a year ago that a British teacher - Lindsay Ann Hawker - was found murdered in Japan. Her family have travelled there to apply pressure on the authorities to find her killer.

0712 Police say they cannot rule out the possibility that a young boy found abandoned in Southall was the victim of human trafficking. Niki Cardwell reports.

0715 Business with Greg Wood.

0720 A senior union leader is accusing the Government of supporting the lifestyles of the "wealthy and privileged" rather than hardworking families

0723 The number of American soldiers killed in Iraq has hit 4,000. Hugh Sykes reports.

0725 Sport with Rob Nothman.

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It's nine months since people's houses were devasted in the floods. More than ten thousand of them have still not been able to go back to them. Richard Wells reports.

0735 Bob Walker reports from the Behind Closed Doors exhibition in Birmingham.

0740 Today's papers.

0743听For more than a century the tiny Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan has been ruled by its king. However the people are going to the polls today to choose a parliament. Chris Morris reports.

0745 Thought for the Day with Reverend Dr Alan Billings.

0750听Should children have a say in the hiring and assessment of their teachers? We ask Chris Keates, the General Secretary of the teaching union the NAS, and Jessica Gold the the chief executive of School Councils UK.

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听Should听 there be more free votes in Parliament on conscience questions. We speak to Tony Benn and former Conservative Chief Whip Lord Renton.

0815听The Frost Report will be returning on 大象传媒4. We speak to Sir David Frost and the writer Craig Brown.

0820 Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin spoke to Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientist at the Department for the Environment about the benefits of Biofuels.

0825 Sport with Rob Nothman.

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0830 We speak to Bill Hawker, father of Lindsay Ann Hawker, the young British teacher who was murdered in Japan a year ago.

0835 Business with Greg Wood.

0840 Zimbabwe chooses a new president at the weekend. We speak to correspondent Peter Biles, and author Heidi Holland, who had an exceptionally rare interview with Mugabe for her book 'Dinner with Mugabe'.

0845 Women's Studies is to disappear from British Universities as an undergraduate course as of this summer.

0850 The Catholic Labour MP, Jim Devine, tells us about his plans to arrange a meeting between the church and medical specialists.

0855 How much do we want to know, should we know, about the private lives of famous people? We ask the authors Patrick French and Stephen Robinson.
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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, as听Nick 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 fails听John and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
Jim听introduces a very听strange sounding听
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
听- 23th听July 2004
Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
听- 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鈥檛 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 a听 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 saxophonist听talks about his time in prison, phone calls with听John Coltrane,听9/11 and the ambitions of a Jazz survivor.
(17/11/07)
James Naughtie asks the President of Pakistan when he will听lift his country's state of emergency and what he is doing to tackle Islamist Terrorism.
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