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Gerry Northam presents religious news.
8.00 News 8.10 Sunday Papers Producer Phil Pegum
PHONE: (0161) [number removed]
WRITE TO: Sunday. Room 5031, BBC North, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ E-MAIL: sunday@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerry Northam
Producer:
Phil Pegum

In the third of eight programmes, Roy Foster discusses his new biography of WB Yeats, the first for 50 years. Plus a visit to the London Book Fair to see if CD-Roms are more effective than books in teaching children to read. Producer Lisa Osborne
E-MAIL: booksandco@bbc. co.uk
Repeated Tuesday 2.00pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Foster
Producer:
Lisa Osborne

Nigel Colbom , Pippa Greenwood and Bob Rowerdew answer questions posed by gardeners from Birmingham. With chairman Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor
Repeated Wednesday 11.30am

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Colbom
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Bob Rowerdew
Unknown:
Eric Robson.
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

The Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , dramatised in two parts by Bert Coules.
Revenge and treachery link a Sussex country house with the sinister secret societies of 1890s industrial America. with Constantine Gregory, Don McCorkindale, Amanda Gordon, Stephen Critchlow, Peter Gunn and Jonathan Keeble. Repeated Good Friday 2.00pm

Contributors

Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dramatised by:
Bert Coules
Violinist:
Abigail Young
Pianist:
Michael Haslam
Director:
Enyd Williams
Sherlock Holmes:
Clive Merrison
Dr John Watson:
Michael Williams
John McMurdo:
Iain Glen
The Narrator:
Ronald Pickup
Inspector MacDonald:
Mark Bonnar
White Mason:
Timothy Bateson
Jack McGinty:
Constantine Gregory
Jacob Shafter:
Don McCorkindale
Ettie Shafter:
Amanda Gordon
Ted Baldwin:
Stephen Critchlow
Mike Scanlan:
Peter Gunn
Captain Marvin:
Jonathan Keeble

Conflict in the 21st Century. Can the spirit of humanitarianism survive? Robin Lustig chairs a debate at the LSE with speakers Prof Fred Halliday , Prof John Keegan , Prof Martin Van Creveld, Prof Adam Roberts ,
Col Terence Taylor and Walter Fuellemann.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Lustig
Unknown:
Prof Fred Halliday
Unknown:
Prof John Keegan
Unknown:
Prof Martin Van
Unknown:
Prof Adam Roberts
Unknown:
Col Terence Taylor
Unknown:
Walter Fuellemann.

The first of two programmes celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Mersey Sound goes back to 1967 with Adrian Henri , Roger McGough and Brian Patten.
Producer Julian Wilkinson

Contributors

Unknown:
Adrian Henri
Unknown:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Brian Patten.
Producer:
Julian Wilkinson

From The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, dramatised in four parts by Brian Sibley. The children find out what is on the other side of the door.

Contributors

Auhtor:
C.S. Lewis
Dramatised by:
Brian Sibley
Music By:
Peter Howell.
Director:
John Taylor
Tumnus:
Norman Bird
Polly:
Mary Wimbush
Peter:
Tom Piccin
Lucy:
Ellie Beaven
Shift:
John Sessions
Puzzle:
Timothy Spall
Rishda:
Philip Jackson
Tirian:
Paul Rhys
[Actor]:
Marco Williamson
Jill:
Victoria Shalet
[Actor]:
Maurice Denham
Aslan:
Stephen Thorne
[Actor]:
Sylvester McCoy
[Actor]:
Kim Wall
[Actor]:
Chris Pavlo
[Actor]:
Keith Drinkel
[Actor]:
Christopher Scott

Jonathan Raban introduces a three-part personal anthology of the greatest writings on the sea.
1: Seeing the Sea. Before the 18th century, the sea was almost unimaginable, a chaos to be got across. Then romanticism discovered the sea and lovingly described it as most of us still envisage it today. Producer Tim Dee Repeat

Contributors

Introduces:
Jonathan Raban
Producer:
Tim Dee Repeat

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