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Trevor Nelson plays another hour of soulful tunes and this week his Album Of The Week is Soul II Soul's 1989 release, Club Classics Vol. One.

Produced by Jazzie B and Nellee Hooper, this debut offering from Soul II Soul features the vocals of Caron Wheeler on three tracks, including Keep On Movin' and Back To Life, which topped the UK single charts.

Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker

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Maxine Peake and Dan Stevens star in Deborah Davis's Afternoon Play offering. Dina and Jake have been living together for three years when their daughter Sky is born. Jake is a confident and easygoing dad who combines looking after Sky with his job as a freelance furniture designer.

Dina, softly spoken and a worrier at the best of times, has recently gone back to work and is suffering withdrawal symptoms from Sky. On the evening that Sky falls out of her cot, Dina and Jake are both at home. They rush their injured daughter to hospital where she is kept in intensive care.

Doctors inform them that their daughter's injuries were not an accident; police take them in for questioning; and social workers seize control of their daughter. The balance in their relationship shifts as Jake finds it increasingly difficult to cope with the situation, his anger with social workers and medical experts evident. Dina, meanwhile, gradually assumes an iron grip and inner calm to deal with the world she has entered.

Dina is played by Maxine Peake with Dan Stevens playing Jake. Other members of the cast include Kate Layden, David Hargreaves, Melissa Advani, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Tessa Nicholson, Rhys Jennings, Nigel Pilkington and Piers Wehner.

Please note: This Afternoon Play was originally billed in BBC Week 47 Programme Information.

Producer/Tracey Neale

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BBC Radio 4 presenter Laurie Taylor

Laurie Taylor explores the history of clothing behind bars, in this week's edition of Thinking Allowed.

From arrows on prisoner's suits in the 19th century, or black and white stripes, to the orange jumpsuits worn by inmates of Guantanamo Bay detention camp, it is believed that the uniform prisoners wear reflects and boosts the power penal institutions have over prisoners' lives. Some regimes used prison clothing to punish and to humiliate, but waves of reform changed that.

Through detailed research and interviews with the incarcerated, Juliet Ash, tutor in Textiles Design History at the Royal College of Art, takes Laurie on a fascinating journey through the history of prison clothing.

Presenter/Laurie Taylor, Producer/Pam Rutherford

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Unreliable Evidence Ep 1/4

Wednesday 16 December

8.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 4

Clive Anderson brings together some of the country's most eminent legal minds for a new series of Unreliable Evidence, in which government ministers, senior judges and lawyers, academics and other experts discuss important legal issues behind national and international events.

Subjects under consideration throughout this series include A British Bill Of Rights And Responsibilities, where Clive and the panel look back on 10 years of the Human Rights Act and forward to the prospect of it being either replaced by or supplemented with a Bill Of Rights And Responsibilities.

Too Much Information Versus Protection Of Children looks at details of a 13-year-old's sexual misdemeanour with a classmate – which will remain on his record and prevent him getting a job as a teacher or child care worker. The team explore whether the law can protect people in respect of concerns about government databases.

Law And Faith looks at the interface between religious law and the law of the land.

And Dirty Little Settlements discusses concerns that justice is often being denied as the spiralling costs of civil court cases are resulting in increasing numbers of people being forced into small out-of-court settlements.

Presenter/Clive Anderson, Producer/Brian King

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5 Live Sport

Wednesday 16 December

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Chapman presents all the day's sports news and brings listeners live coverage of the night's Premier League matches, which include Liverpool versus Wigan and Tottenham Hotspur versus Manchester City.

Presenter/Mark Chapman

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Test Match Special

Wednesday 16 December

8.15am-4.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Ball-by-ball commentary of the opening day's play of the first Test between South Africa and England comes live from Centurion Park, Pretoria.

Jonathan Agnew leads the commentary team, alongside Simon Mann and Gerald De Kock, and expert summary comes from Ashes-winning England captain Michael Vaughan, Geoffrey Boycott and Vic Marks.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Football

Wednesday 16 December

7.40-9.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can hear live commentary from one of this evening's top matches in the Premier League.

Producer/Jen McAllister

BBC 6 Music presenter Lauren Laverne

Richard Hawley joins Lauren Laverne for a very special Christmas-themed performance, live in the BBC 6 Music Hub. Sheffield's finest torch singer performs some of his favourite Christmas standards as the countdown to Christmas continues.

Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales

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Gideon Coe continues to delve deep into the archive and this week brings listeners concerts by artists Kathryn Williams and the Psychedelic Furs.

There's also another chance for listeners to hear session tracks from Welsh Super Furries cohorts Neon Neon, Jesse Garon And The Desperados and the Voluntary Butler Scheme.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Marc Riley travels back in time to 1977 when Sid Vicious joined band-mate Johnny Rotten to chat with BBC Radio 1 presenter John Tobler about their new album, Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols.

Listeners can hear key parts of the interview and Marc also speaks to Tobler about how he feels about the Pistols interview more than 30 years on.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Rozena is concerned to see an upset Nadia back at work, in the midweek visit to Silver Street. Sway later tells Rozena that he and Jodie are together now, but how will Rozena react?

Elsewhere, Jaggy meets the man behind the exclusive poker games. As Jaggy drinks champagne he wonders if "playing his cards right" at the poker game will give him the lifestyle he wants.

Nadia, meanwhile, leaves a message for Sway.

Rozena is played by Pooja Ghai, Nadia by Sohm Kapila, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi and Jaggy by Jay Kiyani.

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Internet Cafe Hobo Ep 1/2

Wednesday 16 December

8.00-8.30pm BBC WORLD SERVICE

Nick Baker embarks on a journey around the world to undertake an ambitious multi-media project that aims to draw a map round the world, using internet cafes and the stories of the people in them.

Launching in December, the first two episodes follow Nick as he enlists the help of web users around the world to find stories and track down a global network of cafes to inform his route.

Presenter and Producer/Nick Baker

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AC Grayling questions the world's leading scientists about their work, as Exchanges At The Frontier, recorded as part of a unique series of events created by BBC World Service and the Wellcome Collection, continues.

This week, AC Grayling is in conversation with Patricia Churchland, a neurophilosopher based at the University of California, San Diego, whose research explores the impact of neuroscience on our understanding of human nature and morality. They discuss the neurological basis of the self and whether there can be such a thing as free will.

Presenter/Anthony Grayling, Producer/Charlie Taylor

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