6.30 Un paso mas: 3: Raban el coche del senor Diez
Twenty lessons in spoken Spanish for those with a basic knowledge of the language
Written by Brian Dutton and Angel Garcia De Paredes
Presented by Jacinta Castillejo and Pablo Soto, with Antonio Lopez and Fernando Agos
(Saturday's broadcast R4)
(For publication see page 12)
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7.0 The Genes in Your Life: 3: Sickle Cells and the Double Helix
At least one in every 400 Negroes suffers at birth from a debilitating and sometimes fatal inherited disease called sickle cell anaemia.
Graham Chedd traces the connection between the nature of this disease, the red blood cells and a minute fault in the DNA double helix.
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