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YABA is a highly addictive drug that combines caffeine and methamphetamine. It’s also known as the ‘madness drug’ and ‘Nazi speed’. Yaba used to be given to horses to get them to pull heavy loads, while lorry drivers would take it to stay awake. Now, as Linda Pressly and Morshed Ali Khan report for CROSSING CONTINENTS (RADIO 4, 11AM), thousands of Bangladeshis are addicted to the drug, which is made in industrial quantities in the jungles of neighbouring Myanmar.

ROSALIE LAMORLIERE worked in the kitchens of Paris’s Conciergerie prison and was appointed as maid to Marie Antoinette during the Queen’s imprisonment and trial. Rosalie had come to hate Marie Antoinette, believing her to be the cause of her own family’s poverty. But when she met the fallen royal, she

encountered a broken and bewildered woman who was desperate for news of her children. The powerful drama MY FRIEND, MARIE ANTOINETTE

(RADIO 4, 2.15PM) follows their unlikely friendship.

TENILLE TOWNES has a dynamic voice and tackles tough subjects in her songs. Her first single, Home Now, is about a girl whose father is serving in Afghanistan, and Tenille (pictured) does a lot of fundraising for homeless young people. She’ll be performing new and old tracks on

THE COUNTRY SHOW WITH BOB HARRIS (RADIO 2, 9PM).