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With Edward Stourton and Sarah Montague.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Mark D'Arcy and Susan Hulme.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Gavin Oldham.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Stourton
Unknown:
Sarah Montague.
Unknown:
Mark D'Arcy
Unknown:
Susan Hulme.
Unknown:
Gavin Oldham.

The first of five programmes in which Professor Steve Jones examines the different blood groups and their hidden influences on peoples lives.
There are well over 100 blood groups and more are being discovered all the time.
The main blood groups that we know today (O, A, B and AB) were only discovered just over 100 years ago. Steve Jones finds out about the colourful hit-and-miss stories of transfusion before their discovery, the evolution of the different groups, how people acquire their blood groups and what they mean.

Contributors

Speaker:
Professor Steve Jones
Producer:
Andrea Kidd

2: South of the Border. Daunt and Dervish have established their detective agency and there is a steady flow of business. But their lives really become exciting when they rescue a woman from drowning, discover she is not at all what she seems, and find themselves involved in the shadier side of life at the race track.

Contributors

Director:
Janet Whitaker
Josephine:
Anna Massey
Susan:
Imelda Staunton
Bill:
Bill Paterson
Ted:
Bill Nighy
Insp Morgan:
Ioan Meredith
Flora:
Helen Longworth
Madame Januski:
Carolyn Jones
Manager:
Jonathan Keeble

The second of five programmes exploring British people's relationship with beaches. Today theatre director Paulette Randall remembers her childhood outings from London to the village of Dymchurch on the Kent Coast. For details see yesterday

Contributors

Director:
Paulette Randall

Another chance to hear Christopher Lee 's comedy drama set in the Ministry of Defence. 2: Lloyd
George's Motor Car. What's the use of L83 million worth of brass nuts with no bolts, and why does the RAF have enough spare fuel tanks to last 440 years?
Director Pete Atkin Producer Rosalind Ayres (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Lee
Director:
Pete Atkin
Producer:
Rosalind Ayres
Zelda:
Fiona Shaw
Col George:
Martin Jarvis
WingCdr Bryan:
Christopher Neame
Cdr Bill:
Christopher Godwin
CPO Grieves:
Peter Capaldi

Mark Lawson chairs the arts show, including a report on Buried Treasure - a major exhibition of British archaeological finds that opens at the British Museum before touring nationwide.

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Lawson
Producer:
Philippa Ritchie

Dr Raj Persaud concludes an examination of the way African and Caribbean people are treated in the mental health system. In the late 1970s, research showed that African and Caribbean people suffered severe disadvantage in the mental health system - more likely to be diagnosed as schizophrenic, more likely to be forcibly taken to hospital by the police and more likely to be given drugs than counselling. Dr Persaud finds that little has changed, and asks what the Government and the Royal College of Psychiatrists are doing about it.

(Repeated tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Dr Raj Persaud
Producer:
Katy Hickman

4: It Shouldn't 't Happen to a Gardener. Mclntyre and Alec are doing their annual audit- will everything be up to scratch? And Danny's ex-girlfriend Stacy is back in town. Danny still hasn'tgot over being dumped by her and is humiliated to admit that while she is now running her own PR company, he's still doing the same dead-end job. Producer Lucy Bacon (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Lucy Bacon

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