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A YOUNG English schoolmistress and an older woman (Ellie Kendrick and Penelope Wilton) arrive in India, where they find themselves drawn into the world of hidden traps and unspoken rules that lie beneath the British Raj’s sense of order. E.M. Forster’s masterpiece A PASSAGE TO INDIA (RADIO 4, 10.45AM, 7.45PM) has been adapted by Tanika Gupta, who has an impressive track record when it comes to radio adaptations.

IN 1993, Stephen Lawrence, a black teenager, was knifed to death by a group of white youths in South-East London. The suspects were arrested but not charged, leading this newspaper to run their pictures on the front page under the headline Murderers. MACPHERSON: WHAT

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(RADIO 4, 11AM) hears details of the Macpherson report into the Metropolitan Police’s highly questionable handling of the case.

WHEN she was 11, the American Paralympian Victoria Arlen (pictured) contracted two illnesses that put her into a vegetative state, unable to speak, eat, walk or move. In the first of a new run of Peter White’s series NO TRIUMPH NO TRAGEDY (RADIO 4, 9PM), Victoria talks about her journey out of darkness and paralysis to the life she’s forged for herself as an athlete and commentator.