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With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With Martin Palmer.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Edward Stourton.
Unknown:
Martin Palmer.

Lucy Ash investigates the human cost of India's s dowry system. Illegal for more than 40 years, it continues to flourish while the price of a groom has soared. It can now be as high as £100,000 and demands for money don't stop at the wedding- they often continue well into the marriage - and it the family can't find the cash, the wife is often subject to domestic violence. Yet not everybody is willing to go along with tradition. Ash meets India's new and unlikely heroine, Nisha Sharma , who recently called off her wedding at the llth hour after her groom demanded an extra$25,000 in dowry payment. Producer Giselle Portenier

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucy Ash
Unknown:
Nisha Sharma
Producer:
Giselle Portenier

A celebration of the extraordinary talent of the Belgian singer Jacques Brel, who died 25 years ago. His songs were covered by Scott Walker, David Bowie, Frank Sinatra and Shirley Bassey, but Brel's own work is rarely heard over here. Presenter Philip Sweeney finds out why the British don't like chanson, and why the Belgians just don't care.

Contributors

Presenter:
Philip Sweeney
Producer:
Miles Warde

By Neil Warhurst. In 1978 two unemployed Eastern European car mechanics dug up and ransomed the body of Charlie Chaplin. This is fact. The rest of what vou'll hear in Neil Warhurst 'swacky comedy is not
Director Peter Kavanagh

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Warhurst.
Unknown:
Charlie Chaplin.
Unknown:
Neil Warhurst
Director:
Peter Kavanagh
Alek:
Mark Benton
Sylvie:
Emily Joyce
Stefan:
Paul Bamhust
Chaplin:
Neil Warhurst
Oona:
Liza Sadovy

3: A Window. By Haruki Murakami , translated by Jay Rubin and read by Michael Maloney. In orderto supplement his student income a young man takes ajob with a letter-writing company. For him the letters soon become a matter of routine, but for his clients they are a means to escape their loneliness and reveal their personal secrets. For details see Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Haruki Murakami
Translated By:
Jay Rubin
Read By:
Michael Maloney.

Nature has equipped humans with a powerful immune system, working at the genetic level. RNA interference -RNAi - has only just been discovered but already scientists are learning how to use it in medicine. QuentinCooperfinds out how drugs based on RNAi promise to revolutionise treatment of diseases such as Aids and cancer.
Producer Jonathan Fildes email: material.world@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Producer:
Jonathan Fildes

By Emile Bronte. 4: The Very Core of Being.
Nelly Dean continues to tell Lockwood the story of Heathcliff and Catherine as they grew uptogetheron the moors. Catherine makes a decision that will change both their lives and Edgar's forever.
For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Emile Bronte.
Catherine:
Cathryn Bradshaw
Heathcliff:
Tom Goodman-Hill
Edgar:
Jonathan Keeble
Hindley:
John Flrtcroft
Nelly:
Deborah McAndrew
Lockwood:
Mark Carey
Young Catherine:
Natalia Keery-Flsher
The house:
Tracy-Ann OBErman

Writer and criminal lawyer Frances Fyfield returns with another series that follows the trail of evidence in three investigations.

The discovery of a set of bones in the fields of Picardy prompts the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Ministry of Defence into an 18-month investigation. Their job was to discover the identity of the soldier who was killed on the first day of the Battle of the Somme at the scene of an explosion so large it was said to be heard in London.

Contributors

Presenter:
Frances Fyfield
Producer:
Paul Kobrak

Europe's Vision Thing. Undaunted by its divisions on Iraq, the European Union is planning the next ambitious steps in its future. Quentin Peel asks whether Europeans share the vision and values to make a larger and more complex EU work - and who will pull the strings underthe new constitution? Producer Simon Coates Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Peel
Producer:
Simon Coates

By Laurence Howarth.
Continuing the sitcom set in the world of the pathology lab.
The pathologists are invited to assist the celebrated Dutch anatomist Professor Raymond van den Hoogenband in the first ever "live" radio autopsy.
Music by Paul Mottram with vocals by Stephanie Benavente

Contributors

Writer:
Laurence Howarth
Music:
Paul Mottram
Vocals:
Stephanie Benavente
Producer:
Dawn Ellis
Dr Webster:
Peter Davison
Dr Anderson:
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Prof Donaldson:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Gordon:
Tom Price
Chloe:
Marianne Levy
Simon:
Gus Brown
Prof Van den Hoogenband:
Chris Pavlo

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