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With John Humphrys and Carolyn Quinn.

6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
With Garry Richardson.

7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rt Rev James Jones.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Carolyn Quinn.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
James Jones.

5/8. Boxers. Two world-class boxers, Billy Schwer and Johnny Nelson , share their experience of life in the ring
With Olivia O'Leary. Producer Karen Gregor Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Billy Schwer
Unknown:
Johnny Nelson
Unknown:
Olivia O'Leary.
Producer:
Karen Gregor

4/5. A widespread misunderstanding persists in Britain about how the art world really works. Alvin Hall has collected art for 20 years. Here he debunks the myths of the art world as he takes a journey from the artist to the gallery, to the collector and the critic. Producer Richard vadon

Contributors

Unknown:
Alvin Hall
Producer:
Richard Vadon

Scientists are discovering that our perception of taste and flavour does not come only from the tongue - the eyes, the nose and even the ears all play a crucial role as well.
Claudia Hammond tickles her taste buds and looks at the science of taste. She finds out if the top scientists in the field can make her like the food she hates.
Producer Alexandra Feachem

Contributors

Unknown:
Claudia Hammond
Producer:
Alexandra Feachem

Marc Lettering is one of South Africa's brightest comedy stars. As one of the first Coloured comedians to gan a national profile, his character comedy reflects the lives of a large part of the country's population whose portrayal had previously been the domain of white comics mimicking them. Simon Fanshawe accompanies Marc on a tour of the South Africa that he grew up in - the predominantly
Coloured area of the Cape Flats - as they explore the roots of Marc's characters and comedy. producer Julian Mayers

Contributors

Unknown:
Marc Lettering
Unknown:
Simon Fanshawe
Producer:
Julian Mayers

Consumer affairs, presented by Liz Barclay 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:
Liz Barclay
Presented By:
Peter White.

Bon Jovi at Wembley? Or By Jovi at The Swan,
Stockwell? Abba or Björn Again? From the acts that recreate every nuance of the original artist's performance to those who struggle by with little more than a pun and a guitar to recommend them
Andrew Collins explores how and why tribute bands have developed into a huge industry and investigates the legal, artistic and cultural ramifications.
Producer Ben Moody Repeated on Saturday at 3.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Collins

1816 was known as the year without a summer Snow fell and crops failed across Europe and North America - but the sunsets were amazing. Jerome Vincent 's play explores the effects these extraordinary climactic conditions had on artists and writers working at the time.
Organ music by Jonathan Ayerst : Producer/D.rector David Blount

Contributors

Unknown:
Jerome Vincent
Music By:
Jonathan Ayerst
Unknown:
David Blount
Edgar Allan Poe:
Kerry Shale
Young Poe:
Michael Beveridge
Maunder:
David Timson
Lily:
Alison Pettitt
Edith:
Alison Pettitt
Laura:
Rachel Atkins
Mary Shelley:
Rachel Atkins
Turner:
Harry Myers
Mellish:
Harry Myers
Polidori:
Chris Stanton
Farthing:
Chris Stanton
Taylor:
Robin Toller

5/13. Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions about the environment. ProducerNick Patrick ADDRESS: [address removed]email: home.planet@bbc.co.uk Phone: [number removed] (calls froms land lines cost no more than 8p per minute)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Daniel
Unknown:
Producernick Patrick

2/5 Toyah Willcox on Lytton Strachey. Toyah Willcox chooses Dora Carrington 's intimate study of the writer Lytton Strachey - the man she adored and with whom she shared a menage a trois. Willcox is drawn to Carrington as a free spirit, despite the artist's reputation for promiscuity and her enjoying a lesser talent than the others in the Bloomsbury Group. For further details see yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Toyah Willcox
Unknown:
Lytton Strachey.
Unknown:
Toyah Willcox
Unknown:
Dora Carrington
Unknown:
Lytton Strachey

6/6. The sketch show that laughs out loud at the life we live. Written and performed by Susie Donkin ,
Charlotte McDougall , Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling , and featuring Ewan Bailey. Producer Carol Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Susie Donkin
Unknown:
Charlotte McDougall
Unknown:
Oriane Messina
Unknown:
Fay Rusling
Unknown:
Ewan Bailey.
Producer:
Carol Smith

John Wilson with arts news, interviews and the verdict on A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater 's film based on the dystopian novel by Philip K Dick. Producer Rebecca Nicholson

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wilson
Unknown:
Richard Linklater
Novel By:
Philip K Dick.
Producer:
Rebecca Nicholson

2/5. Today, as the German officers settle into their billets, the villagers must find a way to live alongside them, however uncomfortable it proves. Irene Nemirovsky 's lost novel, set in France during the German occupation. For cast and further details see yesterday Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Irene Nemirovsky

Avian flu, terrorism, fuel shortages, even asteroid strikes - these are some of the threats that drive the growing business of emergency planning. But are dangers being exaggerated as we live in an increasingly safe world? Max Cotton explores the psychology of the doomwatchers - those whose career is devoted to thinking up the worst that can happen.
Producer Martin Rosenbaum Repeated on Sunday at 5pm

Contributors

Producer:
Martin Rosenbaum

3/3. What happens when memories of the past intrude violently on the present? Dr Mark Porter explores post-traumatic stress disorder and talks to PTSD sufferers to find out what makes them relive their traumas. He also talks to the scientists who believe memories of traumatic experiences can be modified or even erased by drugs. Producer Pamela Rutherford Repeated tomorrow at 4.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Mark Porter

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