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The fourth of five recollections by DENIS CONSTANDUROS
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Strong enough to crack concrete, but no muscle; brighter than a computer, but no brain - Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm discover that plants can no longer be dismissed as mere 'vegetables . Producer KATE WHITEHEAD BBCBristol
reflecting the issues of the day introduced from Broadcasting House, London. Stereo
A series of sixconversations in which John Timpson proves that there really is life after elevation to the peerage.
2: Lord Gifford(Sixth baron); educated Winchester, King's
College Cambridge; barrister at the Middle Temple; and now, at 48, a QC. He first sat in the Lords as a Conservative and then became a crossbencher before taking the Labour whip. Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Pebble Mill
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Martin Wainwright explains what it is he likes about the North. 5: Green and Pleasant
Hills and fields are overlooked by mills - and by dark satanic cliches.
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1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Tomorrow Stereo
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In a historical look at our attitudes to bad language,
Jill Burridge discovers that 400 years ago children were actually encouraged to make up their own swear words. Serial: Jane Eyre (13)
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Eddie Davies may have been 'The Star of Burma' from
Imphal to Mandalay in 1944, but on holiday in Torquay in 1988, jungle tactics are no longer required....
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Brian Gear invites Tim Heald and Minette Marrin to pick some paperbacks.
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by LAURENS VAN DER POST adapted by PETER BEVAN and dramatised by BRIAN SIBLEY The night of 6 August 1945 was one of very special significance to the thousands of prisoners in the hands of the Japanese in south-east Asia. Early that morning the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima. That night there was a new moon
The story is told by Sir Laurens van der Post
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In the last of six talks
Ferdi Dennis goes on another journey into Afro-Britain. The Community Stars
Once a year, Britain's black community celebrates the achievements of some of its members. It's a time for swagger, glamour, gossip and speechifying.
Producer MARINA SALANDY BROWN
The last of six programmes Albert Camus
There is only one freedom: to come to terms with death. After that, everything is possible.
Albert Camus , author of the philosophical novels The Rebel, The Outsider, The Plague and The Fall and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was bom in Algiers of European parents in 1913. He remained something of an 'outsider' himselfbythefactofhisbirth. He was caught between two cultures and truly comfortable in neither. Written and presented by Hugh Sykes
Readings by ANDRE MORANNE Researchers MIKE WOOLF and KAREN KING
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New education laws aim to introduce testing for 7-, 11- and 14-year-olds. But what do children of these age groups think of themselves, their lives and the world around them? With children so much in the public eye, Nick Baker decided to travel the country and this week he listens to the forthright views of some serious-minded 11-year-olds.
2: A Right to Speak
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Buster Edwards of the Great Train Robbery is the central figure in a new film, Buster, which is included in tonight's arts magazine, along with a report on a multiracial television thriller currently in the studio.
Producer RACHEL YORKE
My Uncle Silas
4: The Death of Uncle Silas
Presented by Richard Kershaw
