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Today - 22/08/2008

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Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Keith Vaz, Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee discusses the latest government data blunder. Gary Glitter is on a flight from Bangkok to London despite his attempts to avoid returning to the UK. Nick Ravenscroft reports from Heathrow. Sports editor Mihir Bose reports on the government's promise to raise £100m from the private sector. Karen Allen reports from Johannesburg on Zimbabwe's political crisis. Lenny Harper and Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming discuss the Jersey child abuse inquiry. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili defends the decisions that led to the four day war with Russia. Australia's acting High Commissioner Frances Adamson and British sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe debate the Olympic bet between both countries. David Davis MP, from the home affairs select committee, and Executive Editor of Computer Weekly Tony Collins discuss the latest data blunder. Chairman of the Pakistan Movement for Justice Party, Imran Khan, discusses whether Pakistan's leaders will be able to contain threats to the country's security. Sports Editor Mihir Bose discusses the cost of the London games with IOC President Jacques Rogge. Peter Hyman, a teacher and former aide to Tony Blair, and Anthony Seldon, headmaster and Blair's biographer, discuss what progress has been made by Labour in the field of education over the past decade.