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As the Times Literary Supplement reaches its 100th birthday, Laurie Taylor presents a five-part series celebrating the influential paper. This week he looks at the aberrations of reviewing that have appeared in the paper's history from the dismissal ofTS Eliot's The Waste Landto the omission of James Joyce 's
Ulysses. Producer Caroline Hughes

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurie Taylor
Unknown:
James Joyce
Producer:
Caroline Hughes

Aubrey Manning examines archaeological mysteries around the world. This week he makes a visit to
Catal Huyuk in Turkey, arguably the world's first city. But how was it structured and why was it built in the middle Of a swamp? Producer Martin Redfern

Contributors

Unknown:
Aubrey Manning
Unknown:
Catal Huyuk
Producer:
Martin Redfern

The series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the backs of our necks.

When Samuel Barber wrote his Adagio at the age of 26 he described it as "a knockout!" but he could never have anticipated that it would become America's "national funeral music". Leonard Slatkin talks about conducting it at the Last Night of the Proms after 11 September last year.
Dana Captanino describes hearing it on a road trip across America and George Little describes hearing it as his mother died.

Contributors

Speaker:
Leonard Slatkin
Speaker:
Dana Captanino
Speaker:
George Little
Producer:
Rosie Boulton

By Jonathan Davidson. Three lives on three bicycles.
1960s: Bill might win the Tour de France but his legs are begging him to stop.
1930s: Tom is out with his cycling club in Yorkshire on maybe his last ride as a single man. Down below in the Dales his fiancee waits.
2002: Susan wants to ride around the world but the men in her life are struggling to keep up. Then the wheels begin to turn.
Other parts played by Mark Buffery, Jon Glover and Ric Jerrom
Director Tim Dee

Contributors

Writer:
Jonathan Davidson
Director:
Tim Dee
Bill:
Mark Meadows
Tom:
David Bamber
Susan:
Suzanna Hamilton
[Actor]:
Mark Buffery
[Actor]:
Jon Glover
[Actor]:
Ric Jerrom

Sue Cook and the team examine more of your historical queries. If there is a local legend, quirk of history, family curiosity or architectural oddity that has you puzzled, or if you can help with another listener's query, please write to: [address removed] or email: making.history@bbc.co.uk Producers Ivan Howlett and Nick Patrick

Contributors

Producers:
Ivan Howlett
Producers:
Nick Patrick

2: Kenosis by Chris Dolan. "The two men used to have long conversations. They agreed that to be a father was to be Christ-like: to live up to God's highest expectations and to represent His authority within the home." Read by Mary Riggans. For details see yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Dolan.
Read By:
Mary Riggans.

2: Neil Hodgson. Neil is currently the brightest star in British Superbike racing. As he relaxes from the pressures of the track with a spot of moto-cross racing we meet a man who evidently loves life on two wheels. For details see yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Hodgson.

The return of the show devoted to the powerful, often abused, but ever ubiquitous world of numbers. This week Andrew Dilnet investigates some of our most politically sensitive numbers -those in health care-and asks what figures about NHS performance really tell US - and what they don't. Producer Michael Blastland

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Dilnet
Producer:
Michael Blastland

A chance to hear some of the award-winning radio shows from Britain's first national local radio station. This week Radio Active gets a great big eurowelcome as itgoes eurowide to Germany,
France and Italy for its first euroshow, broadcasting to over 12,000,000 eurohomes in unforgettable eurosound. With Angus Deayton , Helen Atkinson -Wood, Geoffrey Perkins , Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens . Music by Steve Brown , Richard Curtis , Keith McCulloch , Philip Pope Producer David Tyler Revised repeat An interview with Angus Deayton : page 133

Contributors

Unknown:
Angus Deayton
Unknown:
Helen Atkinson
Unknown:
Geoffrey Perkins
Unknown:
Philip Pope
Unknown:
Michael Fenton-Stevens
Music By:
Steve Brown
Music By:
Richard Curtis
Music By:
Keith McCulloch
Music By:
Philip Pope
Producer:
David Tyler
Unknown:
Angus Deayton

Allan Urry investigates problems faced by children and staff at schools rebuilt under the government's flagship Private Finance Initiative. Why, when the builders move in, are there so many claims of spiralling costs and classroom chaos? Producer Jenny Chryss Repeated on Sunday at 5pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Allan Urry
Producer:
Jenny Chryss

Synaesthesia is an extraordinary condition in which the five senses intermingle. In the first of a two-part programme, Georgina Ferry discovers how it's changing our understanding of neuroscience and explores the world of synaesthetes who experience flavoured words or coloured letters, or see music as patterns and colours. The reader is Crawford Logan. EMAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk Producer Amanda Hargreaves Mind and body: page 42

Contributors

Unknown:
Georgina Ferry
Producer:
Amanda Hargreaves

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