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With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Rosemary Lain-Priestley .

Contributors

Unknown:
James Naughtie
Unknown:
Sarah Montague.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
Rosemary Lain-Priestley

New series 1/5 Sixty years ago university was very much a minority pursuit. Today the Government's stated aim is to get half of all young people into higher education. Martha Kearney begins the story of how student life and our universities have been transformed by six decades of expansion. Producer Julia Adamson Repeated at 9.30pm
Martha Kearney goes back to university: page 111

Contributors

Unknown:
Martha Kearney
Producer:
Julia Adamson
Unknown:
Martha Kearney

2/3. Sabina Guzzanti. Miles Kington interviews
Sabina Guzzanti , an Italian satirist and impressionist whose 2005 film Viva Zapatero! exposed the corruption and tear at the heart of Italy's state broadcasting company RAI while shining an uncomfortable light on Italian Prime Minister
Silvio Buriusconi 's media empire. Yet she remains faithful to an Italian satirical tradition that stretches all the way back to Juvenal, Boccaccio and Dante Alighieri.
Producers Andrew McGibbon and Nick Romero Repeated Sunday 12.15am

Contributors

Unknown:
Sabina Guzzanti.
Unknown:
Sabina Guzzanti
Unknown:
Silvio Buriusconi
Producers:
Andrew McGibbon
Producers:
Nick Romero

By Julia Stoneham. The story of Ken Small , a hairdresser from Hull, who settled in Devon and became dedicated to the creation of a permanent memorial to the victims of Exercise Tiger, one of the worst fiascos of World War Two.
With David Holt , Laurence Bouvard , Mark Meadows Martin T Sherman, Jacob Gaffney , Steven Beckingham and Peter Brooke
Producer Viv Beeby

Contributors

Unknown:
Julia Stoneham.
Unknown:
Ken Small
Unknown:
David Holt
Unknown:
Laurence Bouvard
Unknown:
Jacob Gaffney
Unknown:
Steven Beckingham
Unknown:
Peter Brooke
Producer:
Viv Beeby
Ken:
Shaun Prendergast
Devonian woman:
Stephanie Cole
Devonian man:
Bill Wallis

4/6. Mild Cognitive Impairment. Many of us have difficulty remembering names, especially as we get older - this is perfectly normal. People with Mild Cognitive Impairment, however, although they have some memory decline, do not actually have dementia. Professor Roy Jones is an MCI expert and he joins Barbara Myers to take your calls. Producer Erika Wright
PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Lines are open from 1.30pm email via www.bbc.c0.uk/radm4

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Roy Jones
Unknown:
Barbara Myers
Producer:
Erika Wright

This month, the Fields Medal (the Nobel Prize of mathematics) is being presented to four mathematicians who have made outstanding contributions to their field. Previous prize-winning topics include Kac-Moody algebras, Banach space theory, combinatorics, algebraic geometry and topology. But does all this matter? Quentin Cooper investigates. Producer Martin Redfern

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
Martin Redfern

4/5. The Advanced Lady. An opportunity to discuss advanced feminine thinking occurs as the Cure guests take a constitutional together - not that the young Englishwoman is convinced by such an "advanced" approach. By Katherine Mansfield.
For further details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Katherine Mansfield.
Englishwoman:
Claire Skinner
Advanced lady:
Emma Fielding
Elsa:
Emma Cunniffe
Fritz/Herr Langen:
Chris Moran
Frau Kellerman:
Eleanor Bron
Herr Erchardt:
Andrew Sachs
Old man/Landlord:
Sam Dale

8/9. The Gnome Zone. Although as many as four out of five of us live in suburbs, that hasn't stopped suburbia being mocked for its alleged pretensions and conservatism. But as official alarm grows about the state of our suburbs, Richard Weight asks how far we understand our core habitat and if this pioneering British idea about how to live in modern society can still work. Producer Simon Coates Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Weight
Producer:
Simon Coates

4/6. Dubai - Creating the World. David Beckham 's got one, as have most of the England football team. Dubai is engaged in the world's biggest construction project, creating a series of huge artificial islands built in the shape of palm trees and the continents of the world. The glitterati love them, the local fish aren't so sure. Tom Heap investigates. Producer Alasdair Cross Repeated tomorrow at 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
David Beckham

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New series 1/6. Dominic Holland shares the varied contents of his mind. This week he uses a pay-and-display car park, ponders the mysteries of airport shopping, and wonders if there is anything tastier than chicken. With support from Margaret Cabourn-Smith , Martin Hyder and Ed Weeks , and music by Jim Howard. Producer victoria Lloyd

Contributors

Unknown:
Dominic Holland
Unknown:
Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Unknown:
Martin Hyder
Unknown:
Ed Weeks
Music By:
Jim Howard.

3/3. 550 BC. Did Pythagoras really come up with the theorem that carries his name? How did Thales show the worth of science and learning with a little help from some olives? How do you prove that air isn't nothing?Adam Hart-Davis investigates. For further details see Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Adam Hart-Davis

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