30/10/2011

Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven days of BBC Radio

n Pick of the Week this week - trying to make sense of sleep - that mysterious and sometimes terrifying place where we spend a third of our lives. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell recalls how she persevered with a blip on a data chart which led her to one of the greatest discoveries in astronomy in the twentieth century. Gritty drama for our times - the teacher falsely accused of assault by a boy who knows exactly how to play the system and the young couple who've dipped into their neighbourhood community savings scheme and must now face the consequences. And Just William stars as the front legs of St George's dragon in a May Day pageant. What could possibly go wrong?

Classics Illustrated - Radio 4
Mogadishu - Radio 3
The Fiddler in the Tower - Radio 3
The Invention of Germany - Radio 4
Warhorses of Letters - Radio 4
The Life Scientific - Radio 4
The Sleep Diaries - Radio 4
Tontine - Radio 4
Don't Start - Radio 4
Act of God - Radio Solent
Just William - Radio 4

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Producer: Helen Lee.