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With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.

6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News

6.45 Yesterday in Parliament

7.45 Thought for the Day
With Father Oliver McTernan.

8.32 Yesterday In Parliament

Contributors

Presenter:
James Naughtie
Presenter:
Edward Stourton
Presenter (Thought for the Day):
Father Oliver McTernan

At some point most of us are faced with a single choice that irrevocably changes our lives.

Michael Buerk looks at how people make life-altering decisions and takes them through the whole process, from the initial dilemma to living with the consequences.
(Repeated at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Buerk
Producer:
Rosemary Dawson

Martha Kearney presents topical interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view.

Drama: Chapters and Verses: Treasures of the British Library - the Marie Stopes Story told by Maggie Allen. Part 7.

(Drama repeated at 7.45pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Martha Kearney
Reader (Chapters and Verses):
Maggie Allen

Continuing the series in which Simon Calder treks through the Peruvian Andes en route to the remote valley which sheltered the last Inca emperor from the Spanish invaders.

As the going gets tougher, Calder has some unsettling encounters with local food and discovers that global positioning systems are not all that they are cracked up to be.

Contributors

Presenter:
Simon Calder
Producer:
Mick Webb

Christopher Cook concludes his history of how people have listened to classical music. The impact of the recording industry on the 20th century has been both miraculous and destructive. The accessibility of music means that our knowledge of the great works is now taken for granted, whereas the Victorians prepared for concerts by learning transcriptions of orchestral music on the piano.

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Cook
Producer:
Helen Garrison

The first of two plays by Tony Ramsay.

A bluethroat morning: a combination of mist and onshore breeze that brings migrating bluethroats ashore. Set on the Norfolk marshes, where the birding community gathers to sight rare birds.

(The second play is tomorrow at 2.15pm)

Contributors

Writer:
Tony Ramsay
Director:
Janet Whitaker
Stephen:
Ronald Pickup
Anna/Jess:
Alison Pettitt
Adrian:
Sean Baker
Baden:
David Redgrave
David:
Gavin Muir

In this series four leading writers take the chair. Louise Doughty and her guests novelist and scriptwriter Frederic Raphael and social historian Amanda Vickery discuss three of their favourite paperbacks.
(Repeated Sunday 11pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Doughty
Guest:
Frederic Raphael
Guest:
Amanda Vickery
Producer:
Viv Beeby

Last in a comedy series that uses the format of a live radio discussion programme to take an original look at media absurdity.

Ainsley Elliot asks his guests if radio and television are becoming self-obsessed.
Written by the cast, with Nick Canner and Paul B. Davies
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Contributors

Writer:
Nick Canner
Writer/Producer:
Paul B. Davies
Writers:
The cast
Ainsley:
Griff Rhys Jones
Jude:
Melanie Hudson
Hamish:
Graeme Garden
Myrtle:
Deborah Norton
Donald:
Geoffey McGivern
Nigel:
Simon Godley

In the continuing series of programmes, Isabel Hilton discovers an HIV/Aids epidemic of devastating proportions in the townships of South Africa. The government in Pretoria believes it faces a national emergency and is preparing legislation to enable it to override the patents on medicines owned by the big pharmaceutical companies. In response the companies have taken the government to court.
(Repeated Sunday 5pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Isabel Hilton
Producer:
Sue Davies

Gary O'Donoghue recently travelled to Ghana to look at the legacy left by river blindness.

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Contributors

Presenter/Producer:
Gary O'Donoghue
Producer:
Cheryl Gabriel

In the last programme about the excesses of human emotions Dr Gillian Rice explores the boundary between normal and pathological grieving. Personal stories show how some people come through a period of mourning and can "move on", while in others grief can cause serious psychiatric complications or physical problems.

Contributors

Presenter:
Dr Gillian Rice
Producer:
Julian Hector

Why is murder so entertaining? What links Cluedo and Tarantino and why was God the first detective? Steve Punt delivers a factual but humorous whistle-stop tour of the horrible history of gory stories and the fascination they hold for us.

Contributors

Speaker:
Steve Punt
Producer:
Cathie Mahoney

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