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25 May Countryfile (BBC 1, 11 to 11.55am)

Countryfile (BBC 1, 11 to 11.55am)

Genetic modification is having a huge influence on how food is produced across the world. This programme looks at why the pharmaceutical industry is the driving force behind the genetic modification of animals to produce human transplant organs and proteins, and fish to keep human blood from clotting.

26 May

Woman's Hour Drama - A Nursery in the Nineties (BBC Radio 4, 10.45 to 11am)

The writer Eleanor Farjeon's autobiography tells of her relationship with her mother, Maggie. She and her husband locked up their first child, Nellie, in a London nursery 'for the protection of her lungs', robbing her of her yearning for adventure.

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