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Polly Toynbee interviews five leading public figures about the moral commandments that guide their professional lives and decisions.
1: Richard Addis , editor of the Express. Producers Abigail Saxon and Zab Chughtai

Contributors

Unknown:
Polly Toynbee
Unknown:
Richard Addis
Producers:
Abigail Saxon
Producers:
Zab Chughtai

Writer Michael Ignatieff , archaeologist Steven Mithen , educationalist Michael Shayer and political theorist Janet Coleman join Melvyn Bragg and Thomas Sutcliffe. Producer Olivia Seligman

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ignatieff
Unknown:
Steven Mithen
Unknown:
Michael Shayer
Unknown:
Janet Coleman
Unknown:
Melvyn Bragg
Unknown:
Thomas Sutcliffe.
Producer:
Olivia Seligman

Jenni Murray talks to Europe's Commissioner for Humanitarian
Affairs, Emma Bonino , about her forthright views.
Serial: The Transit of Venus
Maria Aitken reads Shirley Hazzard 's story, abridged in 12 parts by Pat McLoughlin (8).
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie E-MAIL: Womans. hour@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Talks:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Emma Bonino
Unknown:
Maria Aitken
Unknown:
Shirley Hazzard
Unknown:
Pat McLoughlin
Editors:
Sally Feldman
Editors:
Clare Selerie

Ned Sherrin hosts the general knowledge music quiz.
Heat Two With Michael Berridge from Canterbury, Cliff Challenger from Bradford and John Johnson from
Luton.
Producer Stephen Doherty
Repeated Wednesday at 6.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Michael Berridge
Unknown:
John Johnson
Producer:
Stephen Doherty

By Lee Hall.
2: / Luv U Jimmy Spud. A play about poverty, illness, love and redemption.
Director Kate Rowland Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Lee Hall.
Unknown:
Jimmy Spud.
Director:
Kate Rowland
Jimmy Spud:
Gareth Brown
Mother:
Charlie Hardwick
Father:
Dave Wwttaker
Grandad:
Joe Ging
Scout:
Michael Walpert
Angel Gabrielle:
Dave Whittaker

Lynne Walker reads Michael Dobbs 's new book with an MP as detectiveprotagonist, Goodfellowe MP- a departure for him - and talks to leading American lutenist Paul O'Dette.
Producer Helen Garrison Revised repeat 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Lynne Walker
Unknown:
Michael Dobbs
Unknown:
Paul O'Dette.
Producer:
Helen Garrison

Hermione Lee asks five well-known women writers to look back at an early work and talk about how their writing has developed and changed since then. 1: Doris Lessing on The
Grass Is Singing
Producer Erin Riley Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Hermione Lee
Unknown:
Doris Lessing
Producer:
Erin Riley

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