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Presented by John Humphrys , Sarah Montague and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Cristina Odone.

Contributors

Presented By:
John Humphrys
Presented By:
Sarah Montague
Presented By:
James Naughtie.
Unknown:
Cristina Odone.

Last in the series in which the language programme surveys 1,000 years of spoken English around the world. 6: Whose English Is It, Anyway? With
English now hailed on all sides as the world's first "global" language, Melvyn Bragg meets people who find English the most natural language in which to speak in spite of not having absorbed it as children. He also hears from experts around the world who reveal that the future shape and grammar of spoken English will no longer be determined in traditional English-speaking countries like Britain and America, but in Europe, Africa and the Far East. Producer Simon Elmes. Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Melvyn Bragg
Producer:
Simon Elmes.

2: Homeless. Catriona Mahoney encounters drink and drugs and their consequences as a volunteer at the Dinas Fechan Homeless Hostel in Swansea.
Producers Rachel Pink and Sara Parker Postponed from 11 September

Contributors

Unknown:
Catriona Mahoney
Producers:
Rachel Pink
Producers:
Sara Parker

By Richard Lumsden. Joan is holidaying with her son following the death of her husband. She reflects on her life and is forced to confront not only the treacheries of her husband but her own secrets from the past. Was the place for fishing that her husband took her to so often really as clear and pure as she had thought?
Director Gillian Bevan

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Lumsden.
Director:
Gillian Bevan
Joan:
Anne Reid
Young Freddie:
Peter Gunn
Freddie:
Russell Dixon
Andrew:
Gareth Armstrong
Young Joan:
Alison Pettitt
Edna:
Doreen Andrew

Health phone-in with Barbara Myers. Dr Adrian White takes listeners' calls on what the traditional Chinese treatment acupuncture is used for in Britain. How does it work? What conditions is it good for? And how do you go about finding an acupuncturist?
Producer Andrew Luck-Baker
Phone: [number removed]. Email: Checkup@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Myers
Unknown:
Dr Adrian White

Sue Macgregor appeals on behalf of a charity which funds research and looks at ways of improving diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer with the aim of curing the disease or preventing it.
Producer Mohini Patel. DONATIONS: Breast Cancer Campaign,
[address removed] CREDIT CARDS: Freephone [number removed]. Repeated from Sunday at 7.55

Contributors

Producer:
Mohini Patel.

Science series. Quentin Coopertalksto Edinburgh entomologist Dr Sally Singh about her discovery that midges are particular about who they bite. Female midges need blood to mature their eggs and Dr Singh hopes this research will explain how midges locate their victims in the sparsely populated Scottish Highlands. Entomologists may then be able to develop new repellents which would stop people being bitten, no matter what flavourtheir sweat. Producer Fiona Roberts. E-MAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Coopertalksto Edinburgh
Unknown:
Dr Sally Singh
Producer:
Fiona Roberts.

A six-part comedy-drama by Barry Grossman about the Jewish community of Hillfield. 2: Direct Action. A man with a tape measure, and a crisis for Rabbi Fine.
Producer John Fawcett Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Grossman
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Su:
Tracy-Ann OBErman
Abraham:
David De Keyser
Sadie:
Doreen Mantle
Melvin:
Henry Goodman
Brian:
Jonathan Kydd
Su'smum:
Sheila Steafel
Mr Biggins:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Bernard:
Simon Schatzberger

Nigel Barley of the British Museum in London reveals the greatest skeleton in anthropology's cupboard - the relationship between some of its greatest practitioners and colonialism. While anthropologists have always claimed to be on the side of the dispossessed peoples of the world, many actually worked hand-in-glove with imperial administrators. Barley also uncovers the little-known story of anthropology's crucial role on both sides of Kenya's bloody Mau Mau uprising.

Contributors

Producer:
Hugh Levinson

Hot Money. Despite plastic and electronic transactions, cash is still king in much of the economy. Peter Day finds out why.
Producer Kim Barrington. Editor Stephen Chilcott. Rptd Sunday 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day
Producer:
Kim Barrington.
Editor:
Stephen Chilcott.

Last in the series exploring environmental issues. 6: Danger In The Deep. For decades we have been filling our oceans with nuclear, chemical and plastic waste. Scientists are now warning that we may be about to reap the consequences. Alex Kirby investigates. Producer Brian King.

Contributors

Unknown:
Alex Kirby
Producer:
Brian King.

Concluding the series in which veteran raconteurs entertain. 5: Actress Dora Bryan looks back at 63 years in show business, including appearances in the stage shows Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Hello Dolly, the StTrinian's films and television's Last Of the Summer Wine. Producer Claire Jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Dora Bryan
Producer:
Claire Jones

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