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Carole Baxter , Bob Flowerdew and Geoffrey Smith answer questions
Posed by gardeners from Edinburgh. With chairman Eric Robson. Repeated from Sunday 2pm
FACTSHEET: send A5 sae marked 01/98 to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Carole Baxter
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Geoffrey Smith
Unknown:
Eric Robson.

Five Victorian mysteries by Wilkie Collins , dramatised by John Arden.
2: Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman Stephen Wheatmeal is to take holy orders. But what should he do about his mistress in Chelsea?
Pianist Colin Guthrie Director David Blount

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilkie Collins
Dramatised By:
John Arden.
Unknown:
Stephen Wheatmeal
Pianist:
Colin Guthrie
Director:
David Blount
Wilkie Collins:
Ronald Pickup
Rev Wheatmeal:
John Rowe
Young Wheatmeal:
David Brooks
Jeromette:
Alison Pettitt
8lacklock:
David Bannerman

By Gurmeet Mattu. Calum's annual ceilidh is endangered when the band's van breaks down. As luck would have it, a Birmingham bhangra band's van has also ground to a halt -just outside his snowbound pub. with Nitin Chandra Ganatra , John Buick , Paul Morrow , Ceit Kearney and Sandy Neilson Bhangra music by Bombay Talky Director Hamish Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Gurmeet Mattu.
Unknown:
Nitin Chandra Ganatra
Unknown:
John Buick
Unknown:
Paul Morrow
Unknown:
Ceit Kearney
Unknown:
Sandy Neilson Bhangra
Music By:
Bombay Talky
Director:
Hamish Wilson
Jag:
Simon Nagra
Miki:
Jim Mistry

Six teachers nominated by BBC Radio 4 listeners have allowed microphones into their classrooms. 1: History teacher Lena McMorrow and her upper sixth from St Mary 's Secondary School in Londonderry tackle the 1916 Irish Rising.
Producer John Dryden Revised repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Lena McMorrow
Unknown:
St Mary
Producer:
John Dryden

Paul Gambaccini tackles the huge computer-created creatures in blockbuster film Starship Troopers and reports on Paul Simon 's musical The Capeman, as it opens on Broadway. Producer Jerome Weatherald Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Gambaccini
Unknown:
Paul Simon
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

Australia is waging biological warfare against the rabbit, which has been devastating the country's farmland. But might a new virus released among the rabbit population prove harmful to humans? Dennis Sewell investigates. Editor Gwyneth Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Sewell

A series of documentary dramas revealing the inside stories of four eminent Victorian partnerships. 1: Dickens and the Mouse with Colleen Prendergast , Ann Beach , Maggie McCarthy and Lee Tumbull. Written by Michael Butt. Director Penny Gold Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Colleen Prendergast
Unknown:
Ann Beach
Unknown:
Maggie McCarthy
Unknown:
Lee Tumbull.
Written By:
Michael Butt.
Charles Dickens:
Michael Kitchen
Catherine Hogarth:
Emily Richard

A six-part darkly comic tale by first-time writer Keith Lawes.
4: Root Fruit. Starring Richard O'Brien , Jonathan Coy and Harry Capehorn. Producer Phil Bowker

Contributors

Unknown:
Keith Lawes.
Unknown:
Richard O'Brien
Unknown:
Jonathan Coy
Unknown:
Harry Capehorn.
Producer:
Phil Bowker

Another chance to enter Harry's world. Written by and starring Harry Hill with Burt Kwouk, Edna Dore, Al Murray, Martin Hyder, Matt Bradstock and Peter Serafinowicz.

(Repeat)

Contributors

Comedian/Writer:
Harry Hill
[Actor]:
Burt Kwouk
[Actress]:
Edna Dore
Comedian:
Al Murray
[Actor]:
Martin Hyder
[Actor]:
Matt Bradstock
[Actor]:
Peter Serafinowicz
Producer:
Phil Bowker

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