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Wednesday 23rdÌýApril 2008
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0709 Hillary Clinton hasÌýbeaten Barack ObamaÌýin Pennsylvania. Our North America editor, Justin Webb, reports.

0713ÌýAre you what your mother eats? How a woman's diet could determine the sex of her baby.

0717 Business with Greg Wood.

0720 The Liberal Democrat MP Malcolm Bruce, who chairs the Commons International Development committee, talks about biofuels and food prices.

0723 US troops are now fighting in BasraÌýalongside the Iraqi Army, in their campaign against militia groups. We speak to Major General Patrick Cordingley.Ìý

0726 Sport with Garry Richardson.

0730-0800

0733
ÌýThe second of our special reports from the Congo where peaceÌýefforts have not put an end to the militia violence.

0741 Today's papers.

0744 Hillary Clinton is back in the running to be the Democratic candidate for president after a strong result in the Pennsylvania primary. James NaughtieÌýis there.

0747ÌýThe species of American fish that has survived 70,000 years despite being all female.

0749 Thought for the Day with The Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool.

0753ÌýHow many schools will be shut by the teachers strike tomorrow? We speak to the head of the union involved.


0800-0830

0810Ìý
ANC President, Jacob Zuma, on Robert Mugabe and the future of Zimbabwe.

0816 Hear more about Hillary Clinton's victory in Pennsylvania's presidential primary.

0823 The British military spokesman in Basra, Major Tom Holloway, tells usÌýthat the Iraqi forces have won the confidence of the people of the city:

0828 Sport with Garry Richardson.


0830-0900

0835 What makes a good leader? We speak to Harvard Professor Joseph Nye and Michael Portillo.

0840 Business with Greg Wood.

0843ÌýJoan Didion's book, the Year of Magical Thinking, comes to the stage. Our Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones talks to the American writer, the play's director Sir David Hare and the lead actress Vanessa Redgrave.

0847
ÌýWhy is there such a lack of interest in England's national day?ÌýWe speak to poets, Brian Patten and Elvis McGonagall.

0852 A final thought onÌýHillary Clinton's win in Pennsylvania from James Naughtie.

0855 ChrisÌýHuhne, Liberal Democrats Home Affairs Spokesman and Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky, research fellow at Brunel University on the state of political party funding.

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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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