Programme Index

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Antarctic Journey. Mark Carwardine travels from Tierra del Fuego, through the Drake Passage, to the planet's southernmost limits to explore the natural mysteries of Antarctica. Repeated from yesterday 9pm

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Mark Carwardine

Clive Coleman 's four-part comedy series set in perhaps the country's least spectacular set of chambers. 4: It's Only Words. John Fuller-Carp gets embroiled in a very costly bet with rival barrister Vernon Ames , and Ruth joins a dating agency.
Starring John Bird , James Fleet. Sarah
Lancashire, Jonathan Kydd , Jeremy Clyde , Simon Greenall , Ben Crowe. John Rowe and Emma Clarke. Producer Paul Schlesinger

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Unknown:
Clive Coleman
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John Fuller-Carp
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Vernon Ames
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John Bird
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Jonathan Kydd
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Jeremy Clyde
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Simon Greenall
Unknown:
Ben Crowe.
Unknown:
John Rowe
Unknown:
Emma Clarke.
Producer:
Paul Schlesinger

In today's programme, South African satirist, playwright and drag artist Pieter-Dirk Uys talks about an apartheid childhood in Cape Town with his sister, the concert pianist Tessa Uys. Their mother was Jewish pianist Helga Bassel, who fled the Nazis in 1937.

Contributors

Speaker:
Pieter-Dirk Uys
Speaker:
Tessa Uys
Producer:
Bill Lloyd

2: Send My Roots Rain. Derek Jacobi stars as Gerard Manley Hopkins in a dramatisation of his final Jesuit retreat to Tullabeg in Ireland in 1889. Always struggling to reconcile his role as a poet with that of Jesuit priest, the retreat culminates in the writing of the powerful poem Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord. Commentary by Norman White. Dramatised passages written by Geoffrey Beevers. For details see yesterday

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Derek Jacobi
Unknown:
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Commentary By:
Norman White.
Written By:
Geoffrey Beevers.

Sarah LeFanu and her guests, children's writer and illustrator Shirley Hughes , and award-winning poet Ken Smith , discuss their favourite paperbacks.
Producer Felicity Goodall Rptd Sunday llpm

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Unknown:
Sarah Lefanu
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Shirley Hughes
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Ken Smith
Producer:
Felicity Goodall Rptd

A six-part humorous guide to modern living and an antidote to pre-millennial tension. With Michael Bywater , Sean Meo , Philip Pope , the Nimmo Twins and a special guest. Producer Bruce Hyman
Repeated tomorrow 11.30pm

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Unknown:
Michael Bywater
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Sean Meo
Unknown:
Philip Pope
Producer:
Bruce Hyman

John Waite and his team of investigators follow up listeners' complaints.
Editor Graham Ellis WRITE TO: Face the Facts. BBC Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA E-MAIL: [address removed]Repeated Sunday 5pm

Contributors

Unknown:
John Waite
Editor:
Graham Ellis

Can music, painting, even landscape gardening have a positive effect on your health? In this special edition of Case Notes, Graham Easton looks at the interaction between art and health.
Producer Julia Durbin
E-MAIL: [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Easton
Producer:
Julia Durbin

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More