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In a new six-part series, Jonathan Miller offers his perspective on the development of the nation's health since the end of the Second World War.
Nowadays, health is something we regard as a social right, but it has not always been that way. Medical historians Chris Lawrence and Charles Webster discuss the origins of the nation's health. Miller also talks to John Pemberton, Richard Doll and Jerry Morris who saw at first hand the impact of poverty and malnutrition on health during the 1930s, and whose campaigning paved the way for the creation of a National Health Service.
Rptd 9.30pm
Taking the nation's temperature: page 109

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Miller
Speaker:
Chris Lawrence
Speaker:
Charles Webster
Interviewee:
John Pemberton
Interviewee:
Richard Doll
Interviewee:
Jerry Morris
Producer:
John Watkins

England v India
Commentary from the Oval on the first day of the Fourth Test from Jonathan Agnew , Harsha Bhogle , Henry Blofeld and Christopher Martin-Jenkins , with expert comments from Angus Fraser , Sunil Gavaskar and Vic Marks. The scorer is Bill Frindall. Including at:
1.15 County Talk As the championship approaches its conclusion we hear from the players involved.
Producer Peter Baxter * Approximate time

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Agnew
Unknown:
Harsha Bhogle
Unknown:
Henry Blofeld
Unknown:
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Unknown:
Angus Fraser
Unknown:
Sunil Gavaskar
Unknown:
Vic Marks.
Unknown:
Bill Frindall.
Producer:
Peter Baxter

By Hilary Fannin. An exuberant, romantic comedy set in Dublin about Pebble, a music teacher with an odd sense of percussion, and her attempts to woo Dominic, a French horn player who has lost his lip.

Contributors

Writer:
Hilary Fannin
Director:
Tanya Nash
French horn:
Chris Blake
Keyboards:
Steve Barnett
Dominic:
Owen Roe
Pebble:
Naomi Radcliffe
Francis:
Peter Hanly
Rita:
Doreen Keogh
Anna:
Hilary Fannin
Denise:
Mary McNally
Georgie:
Roger Jennings

Kevin Whately appeals on behalf of a charity that offers information and advice to people affected by epilepsy.
Donations: Epilepsy Action, [address removed] Credit-card donations: Freephone [number removed] Rpt of Sun 7.55am

Contributors

Unknown:
Kevin Whately

4: The Fledglingby Jane Gardam. As Stella prepares for her recalcitrant teenage son to fly the nest, the ducklings in her garden are a welcome distraction. Read by Eleanor Bron. For details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Fledglingby Jane Gardam.
Read By:
Eleanor Bron.

4: Yulia Latynina writes crime novels that are more than just a rollicking yarn -they've been called the philosophy of the times and sell in their hundreds of thousands. The former Russian Prime Minister, Yegor Gaidar called herfamous book, Stag Hunting, essential reading for anybody wanting to do business in modern-day Russia. For details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Yulia Latynina
Unknown:
Yegor Gaidar

From drugs to treat strokes to the world's most advanced plastics, Quentin Cooper explores how the developments that gave us TNT are being exploited in more benign areas of science. Producer John Watkins E-mail: material.world@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
John Watkins

4: Here Comes the Judge by Jim Eldridge. Terry does a favourfor a headmistress and gets caught in a clinch.
Director David Hitchinson

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Eldridge.
Director:
David Hitchinson
Terry:
Karl Howman
Sandra:
Phyllis Logan
Steve:
Ben Crowe
Mrs McKendrick:
Sandra Voe
Mary:
Elaine Caxton
Matthew:
George Allonby
Wally:
Carl Prekopp
Mrs Barnes:
Carolyn Pickles

The Sony Award-winning investigative history series which unearths another document that sheds new light on past events.

The national anthem of the USA is as American as apple pie. But, in his search to find the origins of the Star-spangled Banner, Mike Thomson has a surprise for the "land of the free".

Contributors

Presenter:
Mike Thomson
Producer:
Philip Sellars

Good as New. Innovative ideas are all very well but how do you turn them into a business when the competition is established and entrenched?
Peter Day finds out. Editor Stephen Chilcott Repeated Sunday 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day
Editor:
Stephen Chilcott

America - the Villain?\n the first of a new series, Tom Feilden asks if the USA really is the arch-enemy of the environment. He travels to the Blue Ridge
Mountains of North Carolina where the first stirrings of revolt are being felt. The traditionally conservative mountain people have begun to question why they can no longer see six states from their highest mountains, whytheirforests are dying and whytheir rivers are emptying of fish. It seems the mountain people are turning the south green. Producer AlasdairCross

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Feilden

Comedy series by Lynne Truss. 4: Sons. A man arrives claiming to be the Oracle's long-lost son and first in line to inherit the restaurant.
Producer Brian King

Contributors

Heraclitus:
Stephen Moore
Aristophanes:
Alan Cox
Mother:
Rosemary Leach
Testicles:
Gavin Muir

One Woman's Living Room. When Dorrett Buckley
Greaves moved to Sheffield from Jamaica, she filled her living room with reminders of home and religious artefacts. But in the space of three days, her house burned down and herdaughterwas murdered. How did she deal with such devastating news when her sense of place had been destroyed? Producer Jenny Dunn

Contributors

Unknown:
Dorrett Buckley
Producer:
Jenny Dunn

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