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Presented by Carolyn Quinn and Stephen SacKur.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Elaine Storkey.

Contributors

Presented By:
Carolyn Quinn
Presented By:
Stephen Sackur.
Unknown:
Elaine Storkey.

4/5. The skyline of London is all set to change with a new generation of tall buildings. Adam Hart-Davis attempts to conquer his fear of heights as he ventures upwards in the capital. Producer Sarah Taylor Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Adam Hart-Davis
Producer:
Sarah Taylor

4/4. This Sporting Life. David Storey 's 1957 novel focused on rising rugby league star Arthur Machin and his antics on and off the field. Writer and TV presenter Ian Clayton , standing in for Storey, talks to members of Featherstone
Rovers rugby league club about how the game has Changed. Producer Clare Jenkins

Contributors

Unknown:
David Storey
Unknown:
Arthur MacHin
Presenter:
Ian Clayton
Producer:
Clare Jenkins

6/9. Thembi's Aids Diary. In 2004, at the age of 19, Thembi Ngubane was given a tape recorder to Keep an audio diary of her life with Aids. Over the course of a year, she collected more than 50 hours of tape giving a moving and highly personal insight into what it's like living with Aids in South Africa today.
Producer Emma Rippon
Repeated on Monday at 8.30pm

Contributors

Producer:
Emma Rippon

The story of Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter - The Railway
Children - has touched and moved generations of readers for more than a hundred years since E Nesbit published the first episode in the London Magazine in January 1905. Nesbit's biographer Julia Briggs visits the Edwardian writer's childhood home to discover the inspiration behind this eternal Classic. Producer Rachel White

Contributors

Unknown:
Julia Briggs
Producer:
Rachel White

Burnt-out gambler Spike just wants a quiet life. But when his own son comes to him with a proposition for one last big-stakes game, how can he refuse? Even if the game is with the devil. By Sebastian Baczkiewicz.

Contributors

Writer:
Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Producer/Director:
Marc Beeby
Spike:
Jamie Foreman
Harry:
Roy Marsden
Jack:
Stuart McLoughlin
Donai:
Christopher Fox
Monique:
Tracy Wiles
Lance/Edward:
Kim Wall

2/6. This week's programme is about the bladder.
Barbara Myers is joined by her specialist guest consultant Mark Slack to take listeners' calls. Producer Erika Wright
PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Lines are open from 1.30pm emailyiawww.bbc.co.uk/radio4

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Myers
Unknown:
Mark Slack
Producer:
Erika Wright

4/4. Kendal Mint Cake. According to legend, a 19th-century Kendal confectioner accidentally invented Kendal mint cake. The exporer Sir Ranulph Fiennes shares his fond memories of expeditions and the key role this confection played. Presented by Sheila McClennon. For further details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Presented By:
Sheila McClennon.

In the second part of a tour of the Open University's summer schools, Quentin Cooper visits the University of Sussex to talk about the importance of practical work in learning science. Is there a right way of practising science? is there a limit to experimentation for the sake of scientific progress? Producer Colin Grant

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
Colin Grant

4/5. At 16, Namu quarrels with her mother. With no money for a return ticket, she travels 3,000 miles to audition for the Shanghai Music Conservatory. By Shaun MacLoughlin. For cast and further details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Shaun MacLoughlin.

Twenty years ago this month, Julie Tullis became the first British woman to reach the summit of K2.
Caught in bad weather during the descent, she never made it down. Then, last year, one of her diary tapes was found on a Himalayan glacier, an audio document of a previous expedition that brings to life the hardship, the dangers and the fascination of the high peaks. This is
Julie's story told through the lost-and-found voice on her expedition cassettes, and interviews with her climbing partner Kurt Diemberger , her husband Terry and children Chris and Lindsay. Producer Sara Parker

Contributors

Unknown:
Julie Tullis
Unknown:
Kurt Diemberger
Producer:
Sara Parker

6/9. Workers of the West, Retire? Many Western companies are shifting investment and jobs eastwards, particularly to the dynamic young economies of China and India with their huge reserves of cheap labour. Could we soon see a world divided along new lines - producer countries in the East and consumer countries in the West? Zareer Masani asks whether that could spell mass redundancy over here, and if so, whether we can survive as the affluent consumers of cheap imports. Producer Ingrid Hassler Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Zareer Masani
Producer:
Ingrid Hassler

2/6. Living without Oil. Sweden aims to be the first nation to live without oil by 2020. The Swedes claim it will gain them an economic and technological lead over the rest of the world. But can they pull it off, and should Britain follow their lead? Tom Heap investigates. Producer Alasdair Cross Repeated tomorrow at 3pm

3/4. Airports. A travel series that never leaves home, with Julian Fox. Julian visits London's airports to decide where he'd like to fly from, and discovers that you can have quite a nice holiday just within Gatwick.
Producers Seb Barwell and Steve Doherty

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Fox.
Producers:
Seb Barwell
Producers:
Steve Doherty

3/6. Barry Cryer looks at the character of Rita Rawlins nee Garnett, daughter to the vociferous over-opinionated Alf, and married to the layabout Mike in Johnny Speight 's Till Death Us Do Part. Written by Mike Barfield.
Part 4 can be heard next Tuesday For further details see Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Rita Rawlins
Unknown:
Johnny Speight
Written By:
Mike Barfield.

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