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With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Susan Hulme and David Wilby.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Anne Atkins.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
James Naughtie.
Unknown:
Susan Hulme
Unknown:
David Wilby.
Unknown:
Anne Atkins.

1/3. With Fleet Street now all but devoid of newspaper offices, journalist and broadcaster Philippa Kennedy relives the story of how this part of London became famous for its fixation with news.

Caxton's assistant Wynkynde Worde brought printing to the Fleet Street area 500 years ago. His back-street business was the seed for the creation of the best-known news-gathering location on earth. And yet the decades following the publication of the first British newspaper in the 1620s were fraught with threats and obstruction from the state, including licensing laws, imprisonment and swingeing taxes. Simple human curiosity to hear the news, not forgetting proprietors' profit motives, won out in the end.

Contributors

Presenter:
Philippa Kennedy
Producer:
Andrew Green

2/6. Pete McCarthy is joined by Robin Simon, David Stafford and Sue Gaisford as they race against the clock to locate a mystery treasure where X marks the spot.

Contributors

Presenter:
Pete McCarthy
Guest:
Robin Simon
Guest:
David Stafford
Guest:
Sue Gaisford
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands

By Don Taylor. Living alone in his Norfolk cottage, a man has got into the habit of walking after dark. But one night he hears music, a solo violin, coming from a remote cottage. He has to investigate.
Director Ellen Dryden

Contributors

Unknown:
Don Taylor.
Director:
Ellen Dryden
Man:
Timothy West
Violinist:
John Wood
Cleaner:
Patience Tomlinson
Policeman:
Benedict Martin

Laurie Taylor hears about the challenge of designing 21st-century offices. Radical innovation in the workplace can boost corporate performance and sell the company- not just to the public but also to its own staff. Experts reflect on how to manage the revolution. Producer Jacqueline Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurie Taylor
Producer:
Jacqueline Smith

2/4. Inside the covers of this week's quality Sunday newspaper featuring more than 50 essential pull-out sections, Frank Doors tackles his hardest assignment yet by spending an entire day as an American; Bermudi Korgi assesses which religion is right for your pet, and a couple reveal the stigma attached to having a happy sex life afterten years of marriage. With Rebecca Front, Simon Greenall , Emma Kennedy , Tracy-Ann Oberman ,
Chris Langham and Ewan Bailey. Producer Helen Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Doors
Unknown:
Bermudi Korgi
Unknown:
Simon Greenall
Unknown:
Emma Kennedy
Unknown:
Tracy-Ann OBErman
Unknown:
Chris Langham
Unknown:
Ewan Bailey.
Producer:
Helen Williams

Francine Stock presents the arts show and talks to Joanna Trollope , whose new novel focuses on adoption, as two people in their late 30s track down and meet their birth mothers. Producer Nicola Holloway

Contributors

Unknown:
Joanna Trollope
Producer:
Nicola Holloway

Michael Buerk chairs a live debate in which Melanie Phillips , Ian Hargreaves , Steven Rose and Michael Gove cross-examine witnesses who hold conflicting views on the moral complexities behind one of the week's news stories.
Producer David Coomes Repeated on Saturday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Melanie Phillips
Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves
Unknown:
Steven Rose
Unknown:
Michael Gove
Producer:
David Coomes

1/2. In 1909 a young Harvard scientist created a strain of genetically identical mice to study the inheritance of their coat colour. Nearly a century later the descendants of Clarence Cook Little 's mice have been responsible for more than 20 Nobel Prizes and key insights into our understanding of modern medicine. In the first of two programmes Graham
Easton traces the scientific career of the mouse and finds outwhy it has been so important in our understanding of human biology and disease. Producer Pamela Rutherford

Contributors

Unknown:
Clarence Cook Little

Another chance to join Ross Noble for an evening of stand-up comedy from the Comedy Store,
Manchester, featuring Toby Foster , Steve Gribbin and Julia Morris. Producer Helen Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Ross Noble
Unknown:
Toby Foster
Unknown:
Steve Gribbin
Unknown:
Julia Morris.
Producer:
Helen Williams

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