5LI: Sports Scholarships 13 MAR 2011




5 live Investigates show

Summary: Increasing numbers of British students are going for sports scholarships in the USA, but are they getting value for money? Some parents who paid one recruiting agency upfront fees to arrange scholarships for their children say promises of offers didn't materialise. Also, we talk to the Imam under sentence of death because he wanted to debate religion and evolution: is the process of ex-communication or 'takfir' being used to stifle debate. Plus, as Britain's pot holed roads are cost motorists millions of pounds in damage to cars, we reveal that the crisis has been aggravated by engineers who've used the 'wrong' type of asphalt on many of our road surfaces.