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In the last of the series, Aubrey Manninggoes underground at Great Orme mines in Llandudno,
North Wales, the biggest prehistoric mine in Britain. But how did the Bronze Age miners dig out the ore and turn it into shining bronze?
Producer Martin Redfern EMAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Aubrey Manninggoes
Producer:
Martin Redfern

In the last of the series, Geoffrey Wheeler goes to Ayr, on the west coast of Scotland, to visit the Gaiety Theatre. In the heyday of variety, entertainers would hone their acts on Gaiety audiences before transferring to the A-list theatres of Glasgow. The Gaiety is famous throughout Scotland for its summer season, the Gaiety Whirl, now one of the last of its kind in the country.

Contributors

Presenter:
Geoffrey Wheeler
Producer:
Libby Cross

On 22 August 1903, a Somerset gardener was overheard singing The Seeds of Love by Cecil Sharp. Sharp went on to collect and publish almost 5,000 songs. But did he appropriate the culture of the rural working class or did he restore to the English their vanishing musical heritage? Malcolm Taylor explores the significance of this moment and of the song itself.

Contributors

Subject:
Cecil Sharp
Presenter:
Malcolm Taylor
Producer:
Julian May

In 1880 Thomas Hughes , the author of Tom Brown 's Schooldays, launched a Utopian community in rural America. He called it Rugby, a place where young English gentlemen could escape industrial Britain and work the land. This drama-documentary charts the rise and fall of the colony, using the speeches of Hughes, letters from members of his family who set up home there, and recordings made in Rugby, Tennessee, today.
Producers John Goudie and Phil Tiniine

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Hughes
Unknown:
Tom Brown
Producers:
John Goudie
Producers:
Phil Tiniine

Heather Payton and guests explore the world of the service economy and ask why we are willing to pay more for services at a time when we pay less for goods. Are we being ripped off? Producer Paul O'Keeffe

Contributors

Unknown:
Heather Payton
Producer:
Paul O'Keeffe

Sue MacGregor is joined by political commentator Tony Howard and financier Ivan Massow to discuss their selection of books, respectively Songs of the Rolling Earth by John Lister-Kaye , Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey , and Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Yourcenar.
Producer Mark Smalley Repeated on Sunday at llpm

Contributors

Commentator:
Tony Howard
Unknown:
Ivan Massow
Unknown:
John Lister-Kaye
Unknown:
Lytton Strachey
Unknown:
Margeurite Yourcenar.
Producer:
Mark Smalley

Actress Nerys Hughes talks about her career, including her roles in The Liverbirds and District Nurse - and about the importance of her family, her Welsh background and being upstaged by Elizabeth Taylor. Producer Claire Jones

Contributors

Talks:
Nerys Hughes
Talks:
District Nurse
Unknown:
Elizabeth Taylor.
Producer:
Claire Jones

Navid Akhtar looks at the hidden clan network that governs the lives of Pakistanis resident in Britain.
He discovers that the biraderi that helped Pakistanis settle here more than 40 years ago is now threatening to destroy the community. Producer Emma Rippon Repeated Sunday at 5pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Navid Akhtar
Producer:
Emma Rippon

Graham Easton explores the world of burns medicine, visiting a unit in East Grinstead that has pioneered plastic surgeryfor victims, and looks at the evidence for and against the use of evermore potent suncreams.
Producer Rami Tzabar Repeated tomorrow at 4.30pm See also Check Up on Thursday at 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Easton
Producer:
Rami Tzabar

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