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with James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Lavinia Byrne.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
James Naughtie
Unknown:
John Humphrys.
Unknown:
Lavinia Byrne.

Michael Buerk returns to chair another series of live investigations into questions of morality raised by one of the week's news stories. Witnesses face cross-examination from
Janet Daley , Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Edward Pearce and Dr David Starkey. Producer David Coomes

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Janet Daley
Unknown:
Rabbi Hugo Gryn
Unknown:
Edward Pearce
Unknown:
Dr David Starkey.
Producer:
David Coomes

Art Malik reads the first of seven extracts from the writings of poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran.
Introduction read by Dorothy Tutin. Producer Julia Wills

Contributors

Unknown:
Art Malik
Unknown:
Kahlil Gibran.
Read By:
Dorothy Tutin.
Producer:
Julia Wills

Last of the series with Michael White and Austin Mitchell MP. Their guests are Vincent Hanna and Rupert Allason MP. In the chair, Patrick Hannan. Producer Jo Clegg

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael White
Unknown:
Vincent Hanna
Unknown:
Rupert Allason
Unknown:
Patrick Hannan.
Producer:
Jo Clegg

Douglas Young's play is set in 1873 in the British colony of North Borneo, where a scientific expedition into the rainforest brings about the unlikely alliance of a young Scottish missionary and a head-hunting tribesman.
Director Patrick Rayner

Contributors

Director:
Patrick Rayner
Katherine Struther:
Pauline Knowles
Rollo:
Richard Greenwood
Ringate:
Mark Coleman
Rev Struther:
Michael Elder
Richard Struther:
Andrew Wardlaw
Dubuque:
Angus MacInnes
Pollard:
Dougal Lee
Reynolds:
Michael MacKenzie

A new musical in Birmingham, Once on This Island, taps into rhythms of reggae and calypso, and Paul Allen looks at a touring exhibition of "people's art" - from corn dolls and trade banners to carved coal and graffiti.
Producer Robyn Read (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen

When St Patrick took Christianity to the rest of the world, did he leave any behind in Ireland? Was it the rain that caused the downfall of King James's army in 1690? Who asked the first Irish Question? Why has no one listened to the answer?
This poignant smile at that tragic roundabout in Northern Ireland often called 'the Troubles" is narrated by Gordon Fulton.
Written by Charlie Warmington Producer Stephen Price

Contributors

Unknown:
Gordon Fulton.
Written By:
Charlie Warmington

5: This Is 2 Emma Tock Writtle Calling. Peter Eckersley , the BBC's first Chief Engineer, pioneered advances that helped transform British radio from a local curiosity to a national passion, all in six years. By 1929, the wireless had made him famous. Then scandal forced him to quit. He was only 35. A new career in commercial radio took him into the fringes of European politics, which could be dangerous in the 1930s.
Derek Robinson talks to family and friends of an idealist and bon viveur. Producer Bella Bannerman

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Eckersley
Talks:
Derek Robinson
Producer:
Bella Bannerman

Jobs for the Boys?
Full employment is back on the political agenda, but most forecasters predict high rates of joblessness for the next decade. In the last of the series, Melanie Phillips asks whether we've learned to tolerate a society where many people have never worked, and if there are compelling arguments for a new approach to the problem of unemployed young men.
Producer Nicola Meyrick

Contributors

Unknown:
Melanie Phillips
Producer:
Nicola Meyrick

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