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4/8. Human Rights - Five Years On. Five years on from the Human Rights Act's incorporation into English law,
Clive Anderson and a panel of legal experts debate whether or not it has advanced the rights of British Citizens. Producer Brian King Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Anderson

4/5. Curare. Professor Stanley Feldman has spent 50 years studying curare, the plant poison used by Amazonian Indians on the tips of blow darts. Synthetic versions of curare are now a major componen of modern anaesthesia. Professor Feldman tells Jolyon Jenkins how curare has made the journey from feared poison to beneficial drug. Producer Jolyon Jenkins

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Stanley Feldman
Unknown:
Jolyon Jenkins
Producer:
Jolyon Jenkins

1/2. Our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, is so similar to us that its genetic make-up vanes by only one per cent. Andrew Luck-Baker looks at how getting to grips with that difference could lead to a true understanding of the nature Of human beings. Producer Alexandra Feacham

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Luck-Baker
Producer:
Alexandra Feacham

3/4. Love, Smut and a Bit of What You Fancy. Comedian and actor Roy Hudd indulges in a collection of comic songs relating to the less respectable of We activities. He shows how society's changing attitudes have caused the risque song to alternate between the mainstream and the covert, and how the entire course of a relationship can be traced by means of the comic song. Producer Karl Phillips

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Hudd
Producer:
Karl Phillips

Presented by 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

Presented By:
Winifred Robinson
Presented By:
Peter White.

Trumpeter and singer Louis Prima was one of the most prolific and accomplished jazz musicians of the 20th century, yet he's now remembered mostly for his role as a cartoon monkey - King Louis in Walt Disney s
The Jungle Book. Humphrey Lyttelton guides us through
Prima's life, his career and his impact on swing, big band and rock 'n' roll music. Producer James Crawford Also catch The Louis Prima Story tonight at 9pm on R2

Contributors

Singer:
Louis Prima
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Producer:
James Crawford

In a besieged city, a zoo faces a death sentence. As the enemy closes in, Nat, the bird keeper, has orders to destroy the animals, but then they begin to speak to him.
Can he brina himself to do it? By Richard Hurford.
Music by Andy Burton : Director Nadia Molinari

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Hurford.
Music By:
Andy Burton
Director:
Nadia Molinari
Nat:
Robert Pickavance
Pushkin:
Deka Walmsley
Len:
Deka Walmsley
Rosa:
Kerry Peers
Jess:
Kerry Peers
Butterball:
Holly Nichol
Ava:
Holly Nichol
Bert:
Russell Dixon
Zoo Director:
Russell Dixon
Gordon:
Geoffrey Wilkinson
Father:
Geoffrey Wilkinson

3/13. Sue Cook and the experts examine listeners' historical puzzles.
Address: [address removed] email: [email address removed] Phone: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue Cook
Producer:
Nick Patrick

2/5. The Copper's Tale. What the copper sees as he goes off shift tells a different story. Philip Glenister reads a story that casts a different, darker light on Mrs Rachel Adams. By Frances Fyfield. For details see yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Glenister
Unknown:
Mrs Rachel
Unknown:
Frances Fyfield.

5/8. The series that takes a close look at the words people use, where they come from and how they are played with. Presented by Michael Rosen.
Producers Sally Heaven and Toby Field Repeated on Sunday at 8.30pm

Contributors

Presented By:
Michael Rosen.
Producers:
Sally Heaven

Fair Trade has become one of the most successful consumer brands of modern times. High-street stores and multinational companies want its brand on their products. Mark Ashurst travels to Mexico, where the campaign began in the late 80s, and the USA, its fastest-growing market, to find out who benefits from Fair Trade and how it has changed the lives of peasant farmers. Producer Ruth Evans Repeated on Sunday at 5pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Ashurst
Producer:
Ruth Evans

5/5. Dr Kwame McKenzie looks at the psychological stress caused by modern warfare and asks whether the Army has become so obsessed by post-traumatic stress disorder that it's ignoring the more prevalent mental-health problems suffered by veterans - depression and alcoholism. Producer Rebecca Moore Repeated tomorrow at 4.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Kwame McKenzie
Producer:
Rebecca Moore

New series 1/6. An exciting new live phone-in show, hosted by talk radio DJ Gary Bellamy. It promises to be as thought-provoking, controversial, intelligent, well-informed and funny as the average Radio 4 listener. Producer Lucy Armitage

Contributors

Unknown:
Gary Bellamy.
Producer:
Lucy Armitage

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