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BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Presenters Brian Redhead and Libby Purves
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45» Thought for the Day

Contributors

Presenters:
Brian Redhead
Presenters:
Libby Purves
Read By:
Pauline Bushnell
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The People's Renaissance: How has science in China fared since the end of the Cultural RevoIution and the fall of the Gang of Four? In the second of two programmes, Colin Blakemore, Professor of Physiology at Oxford, examines China's attempts to recover her reputation as a country of outstanding scientific achievement. (long wave only)

Contributors

Speaker:
Colin Blakemore
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Jenni Murray
Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Cheryl Armitage talks to couples whose work throws them apart.
Summers' Blight: Edmund Jupp takes a sideways took at how to cope with the ailment.
Clowning Around: actor Chris Harris on his recent visit to the Moscow State Circus School.
A Comfort of Cats (3)
BBC Bristol
long wave only

Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

'I'd like to think my writing is an attempt to record what occurs as the fissures of class and race are prised apart - and what it's like being the person who falls into them.'
Pat Rowe talks to the 25-year-old South Londoner who is the winner of this year's
George Devine Award for young playwrights.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Pat Rowe
Interviewee:
Hanif Kureishi
Source: Radio Times
BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Baroness Burton of Coventry, William Rees Mogg, John Mortimer, The Hon William Waldegrave,MP, tackle the issues raised.
Chairman David Jacobs

Contributors

Chairman:
David Jacobs
Panellist:
Baroness Burton of Coventry
Panellist:
William Rees Mogg
Panellist:
John Mortimer
Panellist:
The Hon William Waldegrave MP
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 4 FM

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