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With Sarah Montague and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Abdal Hakim Murad.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Montague
Unknown:
Edward Stourton.
Unknown:
Abdal Hakim Murad.

5/5. Andrew O'Hagan , the Booker-nominated writer, was a ballet scholarship student. Philip Moseley , who went from South Yorkshire to the Royal Ballet, was inspirational to the writer Lee Hall , author of Billy Elliot. They talk about what really happens to working-class ballet boys. Producer Frances Byrnes

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew O'Hagan
Unknown:
Philip Moseley
Unknown:
Lee Hall
Unknown:
Billy Elliot.
Producer:
Frances Byrnes

4/5. Richard Dawkins , professor of the public understanding of science at Oxford, entertains an audience with some favourite and accessible science-writing. With readers Lalla Ward, Philip Franks and Jon Glover. Producer Viv Beeby Repeated on Sunday at 12.15am

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Dawkins
Unknown:
Philip Franks
Unknown:
Jon Glover.
Producer:
Viv Beeby

In the course of one night three women reel from the shock of the sudden death of six-month-old Rosie. Tara, Rosie's mother, has shut herself away having formally accused her mother-in-law, Savita, of being responsible for Rosie's death. Terrified for her future, Savita awaits questioning at the police station while her daughter Neela paces the corridors outside. By Lekha Desai Morrison.

Contributors

Writer:
Lekha Desai Morrison
Director:
Kate Chapman
Tara:
Rina Mahoney
Savita:
Shelley King
Neela:
Pooja Ghai
Raj:
Pushpinder Chani

4/7. About 6,000 people in the UK have haemophilia, a clotting disorder that runs in families. Severe bruising ana nose bleeds can also be a symptom of another clotting disorder - Von Willebrand 's disease. Such illnesses can be mistaken for signs of abuse, especially in children.
Barbara Myers invites your calls and emails on haemophilia ana related bleeding disorders. Producer Erika Wright PHONE:[number removed] from 1.30pm on day of broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Von Willebrand
Unknown:
Barbara Myers
Producer:
Erika Wright

4/5. BBC Paris correspondent Allan Little introduces extracts from some of the most memorable writing of the Second World War. Peter Marinker reads novelist
Irwin Shaw 's report of an encounter at the Comedie Francaise on the day of liberation.

Contributors

Introduces:
Allan Little
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Unknown:
Irwin Shaw

4/5. Waking at 5.30am the flock sets off to find its breakfast. At midday it arrives through walls of fog just in time for lunch at the festival in Esperou. While the sheep take their ease, Richard Collins hunts down the traditional food and music of the numerous and highly distinct corners of the Cevennes, with the help of Herve Robert , Jean Ferrat and a local delicacy -tepid calf's head.

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Collins
Unknown:
Herve Robert
Unknown:
Jean Ferrat

Artificial Blood. A blood substitute could make human-to-human transfusions a thing of the past, providing a solution to shortages of donor blood and reducing the risk of transmitting diseases. Quentin Cooper talks to Dr Ken Lowe from Nottingham University who is genetically modifying haemoglobin, which carries oxygen around the body. The hope is to mass-produce artificial molecules that can oxygenate the body's cells just as efficiently as our own blood. Producer Michelle Martin

Contributors

Talks:
Quentin Cooper
Unknown:
Dr Ken Lowe
Producer:
Michelle Martin

6/6. The last in the series written by and starring
Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine , with Martin Hyder , Dave Lamb and Jim North . Additional material by Rhodri Crooks , Paul Kerensa , Richie Devlin , Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell . Producer Chris Neill

Contributors

Unknown:
Mel Hudson
Unknown:
Vicki Pepperdine
Unknown:
Martin Hyder
Unknown:
Dave Lamb
Unknown:
Jim North
Unknown:
Rhodri Crooks
Unknown:
Paul Kerensa
Unknown:
Richie Devlin
Unknown:
Danny Robins
Unknown:
Dan Tetsell
Producer:
Chris Neill

John Wilson meets the photographer Donald McCullin , whose new book is the result of a journey through tribal lands in the valley of the Omo River in Ethiopia. Producer Thomas Morris

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wilson
Unknown:
Donald McCullin
Producer:
Thomas Morris

Everybody said Mike and Liz Yates would make a great mum and dad. But no baby arrived, so they decided to adopt. The Yateses' personal diary tells of the highs and lows of a year of interviews and training, climaxing in the decision of a legal "panel" on their suitability to be adoptive parents. Producer Andrew Graystone

Contributors

Unknown:
Liz Yates
Producer:
Andrew Graystone

7/9. The Asset Effect. All 21-year-olds should get E50,000 from the government: so says one of the gurus of the new philosophy of asset-based welfare. Stephanie Flanders asks whether giving people lump-sum handouts really is the key to creating social justice.
Producer Hugh Levinson Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephanie Flanders
Producer:
Hugh Levinson

4/6. Miriam O'Reilly investigates the spiralling cost of picking up and disposing of rubbish cast aside on Britain's streets and dumped in the countryside - from the fields of Somerset to the nave of Westminster Abbey. Producer Mark Handscomb

Contributors

Unknown:
Miriam O'Reilly
Producer:
Mark Handscomb

3/4. Science and Technology. Humans like to think that even if evolution has dealt them a neat hand, they have made their own luck through their mastery of science and technology. This episode looks at how many things, including penicillin and the light bulb, have been discovered accidentally. Starring award-winning comedian Chris Addison , with Professor Austin Herring (aka Geoffrey McGivern ), Jo Enright and Dan Tetsell. Producer Simon Nicholls

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Addison
Unknown:
Geoffrey McGivern
Unknown:
Jo Enright
Unknown:
Dan Tetsell.
Producer:
Simon Nicholls

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