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with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev Philip Crowe.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Philip Crowe.

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Eat your heart out Mrs Andy Capp ! The curler is back in style. Sheila McClennon celebrates the new wave.
Serial: The Sixth Heaven(3)

Contributors

Introduced By:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Mrs Andy Capp
Unknown:
Sheila McClennon

This week the team visits Wokingham in Berkshire, where members of the Wokingham Horticultural Association put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki, Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Chairman Clay Jones.
(Broadcast Sunday at 2.00pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Stefan Buczacki
Unknown:
Fred Downham
Unknown:
Sue Phillips.
Unknown:
Clay Jones.

The last of a four-part play by Constance Cox .
Alice Donaldson is unable to ignore a cry for help from a young woman, so the bags are packed once again and she sets off for Devon.
Director Tracey Neale. Stereo

Contributors

Play By:
Constance Cox
Play By:
Alice Donaldson
Director:
Tracey Neale.
Mrs Donaldson:
Dulcie Gray
Rory:
Ben Onwukwe
Janet:
Deborah Makepeace
Mrs Hall:
Mary Wimbush
Malcolm:
Martyn Read
Eileen:
Natasha Pyne

Archimedes
The second of three plays by John Wain and Laszlo Solymar about mathematicians and philosophers whose ideas brought about their downfall. Archimedes was thought by some to be a madman, jumping out of his bath and running stark naked through the streets shouting "Eureka!". But his inventions were capable of being turned into the most terrifying weapons.
Director Jane Morgan. Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wain
Unknown:
Laszlo Solymar
Director:
Jane Morgan.
Archimedes:
Terrence Hardiman
Aristander:
Eric Allan
Hieron:
Phillip Sully
Marcellus:
Terence Edmond
Theophilus:
David Sinclair
Leander:
John Church
Crassus:
Mark Straker
Centurion:
Charles Millham
Soldier:
Robert Portal

with Michael Rosen.
The Smarties, the Whitbread, the Carnegie medal - what difference does a book prize make to the authors?
Kathleen Griffin finds out how the awards are made and talks to judges, from critics to the real consumers - children.
Producer Jill Burridge

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rosen.
Unknown:
Kathleen Griffin
Producer:
Jill Burridge

"She sat in the church and kept saying, 'I can't do it, Ican'tdoit'."
"What I bitterly regret is wasting mum and dad's money."
Invitations posted, dress fits perfectly and the cake's iced - so what stops the wedding? Producer Gill Powell

Contributors

Producer:
Gill Powell

Mark Steyn discusses the week's new films; and looks at the world through the eyes of a child when he visits a national exhibition ofchildren'sartat
London's Barbican Centre.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Steyn
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

Words and Deeds by Paul Theroux.
"When Andre sees that I have left him, he will try to kill me. All Corsicans are like that - blood-thirsty and jealous. He will want to kill you too."
Read by Garrick Hagon. Producer Anne-Mane Cole

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Theroux.
Read By:
Garrick Hagon.

The Language of the Genes
Six talks by Dr Steve Jones , Reader in Genetics at University College, London, on the new biological insight into humanity.
3: In God's Image
Up till now, evolution by natural selection has shaped humanity. Does modern civilisation mean that this process has come to an end?
Producer Deborah Cohen

Contributors

Reader:
Dr Steve Jones
Producer:
Deborah Cohen

A six-part series in which Attila the Stockbroker explores the tradition of verbal abuse in cultures past and present.
5: When You're Old and Grey
Insults in popular culture, from Flanders and Swann to football fanzines.
Producer Tessa Watt. Stereo

Contributors

Producer:
Tessa Watt.

Five programmes, narrated by Roshan Seth , telling the other side of the Raj story - the experiences and memories of Indians who worked for the British.
3: The Language of Protest Former nationalists reflect on the British education and values with which they set out to challenge the Raj. Producer Zareer Masant 0 CASSETTE: Plain Tales from the Raj. from retailers

Contributors

Unknown:
Roshan Seth
Producer:
Zareer Masant

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