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Patrick Hannan chairs the Nght-hearted quiz that lifts the lid off the world of politics. With team captains Michael White and Austin Mitchell MP. Producer Phil Bowker

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Hannan
Unknown:
Michael White
Producer:
Phil Bowker

By Leonora Brito. Grace sang in a trio in 1950s Cardiff. But while she stayed working in the cigar factory, it was Evelyn - who could not sing - who became a star. with Don Warrington. Lee Farley , Manon Edwards. Helen Griffin and Chris Griffiths Pianist Matthew Bailey
Director Alison Hindell Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Leonora Brito.
Unknown:
Lee Farley
Unknown:
Manon Edwards.
Unknown:
Helen Griffin
Pianist:
Chris Griffiths
Pianist:
Matthew Bailey
Director:
Alison Hindell
Grace:
Suzanne Packer
Cleo:
Sandra James-Young
Carmen:
Sandra Yaw
Evelyn:
Karin Diamond
Young Cleo:
Lorraine Cole
DW:
Treva Etienne

Paul Allen checks out the first week of the Dublin Theatre Festival and, to mark National Poetry Day, he reviews 101 enduring poems and reflects on this year's Forward Prize for poetry. Producer Jerome Weatherald
Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Allen
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

By Helen Dunmore , read by Saskia Reeves. Paivi - young, beautiful and very pregnant - feels frightened and lonely in Finland, where the winter nights last for ever. Producer Pauline Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Dunmore
Read By:
Saskia Reeves. Paivi
Producer:
Pauline Harris

Jon Ronson makes a highly personal journey to the sites of the Holocaust in Poland. He discovers a tourist industry in a society that is compelled - both by economics and by circumstances - to market its past tragedies. But where does remembrance end and exploitation begin?
Producer Cathie Mahoney Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Jon Ronson
Producer:
Cathie Mahoney

Privatising Privacy?
Do we own our privacy? If so, can it be bought and sold? Invasions of privacy by paparazzi have captured headlines, but privacy matters to everyone in one way or another.
Frances Cairncross asks what it is, why we value it, and whether there are new ways of protecting it. Producer Michael Blastland
Repeated Sunday 4.15pm

Analysis
Radio 4: 8pm
The death of Diana, Princess of Wales, has reopened the debate about the need for new laws on privacy and how far such laws should go to protect individuals from unwanted prying. But while it's the activities of the paparazzi which have captured the headlines, more common-place threats to our privacy lie closer to home. By sifting the wealth of computerised data available to them. companies can build up a detailed profile of our lives. Such information is, they say, a valuable asset. Tonight, Frances Cairncross asks whether we should view our privacy in different ways and whether there is, in some cases, an argument for placing a financial price on it.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances Cairncross
Producer:
Michael Blastland

Six programmes in which a British writer exchanges letters about a shared obsession or experience with a "pen friend" elsewhere in Europe. 2: A Need for Speed. Novelist Hwee Hwee Tan exchanges e-mails with Marcel Moring in Rotterdam about their obsession with computers. Producer Tessa Watt

Contributors

Unknown:
Hwee Hwee Tan
Unknown:
Marcel Moring
Producer:
Tessa Watt

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