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Water in the Wilderness. On the third Sunday in Lent, the Rev Nicholas Holtam leads the service from St Martin in the Fields on the theme of suffering. With Sister Margaret Shepherd , director of the Council of Christians and Jews. Director of music Paul Stubbings. Organist Nicholas Danks.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Holtam
Unknown:
Margaret Shepherd
Organist:
Paul Stubbings.
Organist:
Nicholas Danks.

Walking on Water. Simon Calder continues his attempt to cross the Darien Gap from Colombia into Panama. The Colombian security situation is so bad that he is forced to take a circuitous route through the San Bias islands. Producer Mick Webb

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Calder
Producer:
Mick Webb

By Gunter Grass , dramatised in two parts by Mike Walker. With Phil Daniels as Oskar and Kenneth Cranham as Matzerath. 1: Germany 1930. Hitler rises to power. Three-year-old Oskar decides to stop growing and talking.
Instead, he plays his tin drum through the dark years of Nazism. with Kristin Milward , David Collings.
Jane Whittenshaw. John Turner , Tessa Worsley , John Hartley and Paul Jenkins. Percussion by Unmen. Director Peter Kavanagh. Rptd Saturday 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Gunter Grass
Unknown:
Mike Walker.
Unknown:
Phil Daniels
Unknown:
Kenneth Cranham
Unknown:
Kristin Milward
Unknown:
David Collings.
Unknown:
Jane Whittenshaw.
Unknown:
John Turner
Unknown:
Tessa Worsley
Unknown:
John Hartley
Unknown:
Paul Jenkins.
Director:
Peter Kavanagh.
Agnes:
Lesley Manville
Jan:
Stephen Critchlow

Contemporary poetry with Christopher Cook , whose guests Michele Roberts and Stephen Romer reflect on their experiences of living in both France and England.
Producer Susan Roberts
Repeated Saturday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Michele Roberts
Unknown:
Stephen Romer
Producer:
Susan Roberts

Britain's elderly are owed millions of pounds in unpaid pensions after a failure at the national insurance computer-the latest in a string of problems after they were contracted out to private firms. Jonathan Rugman investigates. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Rugman

Darwin - the Comfortable Revolutionary Melvyn Bragg talks to eminent scientists Stephen Jay Gould , Daniel Dennett , John Maynard Smith and Richard Dawkins about their hero Charles Darwin. Producer Ruth Gardiner Repeat

Contributors

Talks:
Melvyn Bragg
Unknown:
Stephen Jay Gould
Unknown:
Daniel Dennett
Unknown:
John Maynard Smith
Unknown:
Richard Dawkins
Unknown:
Charles Darwin.
Producer:
Ruth Gardiner

Andrew Rawnsley presents the political headlines of the next week, live from Westminster. Including 10.45 Now that History Hasn't Ended. Last in a series of talks by philosopher John Gray. 4: The Broken Spider's Web Editor John Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley
Unknown:
John Gray.
Editor:
John Evans

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