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With Carolyn Quinn and Edward Stourton.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Angela Tilby.

Contributors

Unknown:
Carolyn Quinn
Unknown:
Edward Stourton.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
Angela Tilby.

5/5. A Clean Bill of Health. Richard Foster reveals the stories hidden in old bills. Thomas Arthur , an Irish doctor, kept his fee books from 1619 to 1666 in a neat Latin hand, leaving to posterity an incomparable record of the state of his nation's health. Producer Merilyn Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Foster
Unknown:
Thomas Arthur
Producer:
Merilyn Harris

2/4. The Romans in India. Aubrey Manning goes in search of the ancient Roman port of Muziris on the west coast of India, an important post in the route to the West of "black gold" - pepper. New research suggests that the city, long thought lost, may now have been found. Producer Helen sharp

Topical consumer affairs reports, with Winifred Robinson and Peter White. Including at 12.30 Call You and Yours.
PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Lines open from 10am

Contributors

Unknown:
Winifred Robinson
Unknown:
Peter White

In the 1930s, Canadian musician Colin McPhee , entranced by the traditional music of Bali, bought instruments for the children of the village he lived in. Maria Bakkalapulo revisits the island to talk to the boy musicians, now in their 70s. And Philip Glass talks about the profound effect that Balian music has had on his own compositions. Producer Sara Jane Hall Repeated on Saturday at 3.30pm

Contributors

Musician:
Colin McPhee
Unknown:
Maria Bakkalapulo
Producer:
Sara Jane Hall

By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. Galen, a talented and successful choreographer, likes order in her life. But then one day her world is turned upside down. She meets the man of her dreams at a party but when she starts to ask about him, no-one knows who he is. Does this Steve O'Something exist or is he a phantom? Galen is determined to find out.
Producer/Director Tracey Neale

Contributors

Unknown:
Sebastian Baczkiewicz.
Unknown:
Steve O'Something
Director:
Tracey Neale
Galen:
Nicola Walker
Rowan:
Patricia Kerrigan
Cal:
Chris Moran
Steve:
Tom Brooke
Carol:
Ayesha Antoine
Chloe:
Ella Smith
Steve Olsen:
Delroy Brown

Sue Cook and the team tackle listeners' historical and family research challenges. Producer Nick Patrick ADDRESS: [address removed]email: making.history(Sbbc.co.uk Phone: [number removed](calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute)

Contributors

Producer:
Nick Patrick

4/7. Heather Payton discusses how digital map making is revolutionising the traditional world of cartography, and how the buying and selling of geographical information is changing the way business is done. Producer Rosamund Jones

Contributors

Unknown:
Heather Payton
Producer:
Rosamund Jones

5/10. Composer and presenter of Radio 3's Private
Passions Michael Berkeley and Canadian actor Kerry Shale join Sue MacGregor to talk about their favourite paperbacks. Producer Beth O'Dea Repeated on Sunday at 11pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Berkeley
Unknown:
Kerry Shale
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Producer:
Beth O'Dea

6/6. Andy Hamilton 's comedy about Trevor, the sports agent who believes in honour and decency and trust. This week a vain French football star throws a party, and wishes he hadn't.
Producer Andy Hamilton

Contributors

Unknown:
Andy Hamilton
Producer:
Andy Hamilton
Trevor:
Nell Pearson
Sammy:
Paul Reynolds
Ralph:
Michael Fenton Stevens
Theresa:
Rosalind Ayres
Heidrun:
Cosima Shaw
Barry:
Abdul Salls
Meryl:
Claire Skinner
Toby:
Matthew Thomas

2/5. Irene is forced into casual labour when she arrives in Ibiza to find she has inherited her absent friend's debts. Meanwhile, Vera has escaped Gaston's clutches in a beetroot truck heading for Trieste, where she falls in with Roman, a charismatic Transylvanian with a hatred of garlic. By Lou Wakefield and Carole Hayman.
For cast and further details see yesterday Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Lou Wakefield
Unknown:
Carole Hayman.

American scientists are accusing the Bush administration of suppressing, manipulating and distorting their work. Justin Webb investigates the growing number of US science scandals - from editing climate-change research to repressing the sale of contraceptives. Producer Michelle Martin

Contributors

Unknown:
Justin Webb
Producer:
Michelle Martin

6/6. Recent figures show that one in ten children aged 5-16 has a clinically recognisable mental disorder. Raj Persaud talks to experts in this area and visits a specialist psychiatric unit for children with severe problems, meeting therapists and parents who share their experiences about coping with mental health problems in their children. PHONE: osoo [number removed]
Executive producer Rebecca Asher Repeated tomorrow at 4.30pm

Contributors

Talks:
Raj Persaud
Producer:
Rebecca Asher

3/4. Jenny Green, frustrated intellectual, is going nowhere in a staff writing job on unfathomably successful TV soap Jesmond Road, until the day when she has the chance to take out her chagrin on the soap's script - and in the process unwittingly starts a cultural revolution.

Contributors

Writer:
Daniel Maier
Writer:
Mark Maier
Producer:
Claire Bartlett
Jenny:
Alice Lowe
Callum:
Matthew Horne
Dr Berringer:
Jim Barclay
Angela:
Jenny Eclair
Naomi:
Angela Lonsdale
Sam:
Steve Furst

1/3. Judith Hann goes in search of the secrets of human identity and discovers how a new theory of personality is revolutionising scientists' understanding of what makes us who we are. Uniting psychologists and biologists for the first time, the "Big Five" theory taps into something fundamentally human. Producer Amanda Hargreaves Continues tomorrow at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Hann
Producer:
Amanda Hargreaves

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