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A report on Linden Cornwallis , an Oxfordshire sheep farmer who has recently been given an award by English Nature for his conservation measures. However, due to the current state of British farming, he does not know if his farm will survive.
Producer Hugh 0'Donnell

Contributors

Unknown:
Linden Cornwallis

From St George's Church, Berlin, on the first
Remembrance Sunday since the restoration of the city as capital of a united Germany and to mark the tenth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Led by the Rev Christopher Jage -
Bowler, with Bishop Wolfgang Huber and Rabbi Walter Rothschild. Singers from the Deutsche Oper and the Staats-und-Domchor.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Jage
Unknown:
Wolfgang Huber
Singers:
Rabbi Walter Rothschild.

From the Cenotaph. Robin Lustig describes the scene of the traditional wreath-laying ceremony, live from Whitehall. On this day of national remembrance John Keegan , military historian and defence editor of The Daily Telegraph, reflects on ordinary people's changing attitudes to war, and on the human cost of conflict.

Contributors

Unknown:
Robin Lustig
Unknown:
John Keegan

The antidote to panel games starts its autumn series at the Grand Opera House in York. Mirth and considerable merriment comes from Graeme Garden , Jeremy Hardy , Sandi Toksvig and Tim Brooke-Taylor . Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy
Unknown:
Sandi Toksvig
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton

Bob Flowerdew , Pippa Greenwood and Nigel Colborn answer questions posed by gardeners from north east Lincolnshire.
With chairman Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor. Repeated Wednesday 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Nigel Colborn
Unknown:
Eric Robson.
Producer:
Trevor Taylor.

By Iris Murdoch , dramatised in three parts by Michael Bakewell. 2: A new bell is due to arrive at the Abbey, but Dora is haunted by the story of the old bell and of the death that it foretold.
Music Elizabeth Parker. Producer Catherine Bailey Director Jane Morgan. Repeated Saturday 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Iris Murdoch
Unknown:
Michael Bakewell.
Music:
Elizabeth Parker.
Producer:
Catherine Bailey
Director:
Jane Morgan.
Michael Meade:
Crispin Redman
Dora Greenfield:
Cathryn Bradshaw
Paul Greenfield:
Nicholas Farrell
Peter Topglass:
Struan Rodger
TobyGashe:
Jamie Bamber
James Tayper Pace:
Philip Voss
Catherine Fawley:
Emma Gregory
Nick Fawley:
Nicholas Boutton
Mrs Mark:
Jane Booker
The Irish nun:
Kate Binchy
Noel Spens:
Charlie Simpson

In front of an invited audience at the Berlin City Parliament, Nato Secretary
General George Robertson , Germany's Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer , Poland's Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek and the Chairman of the Russian
Duma's Foreign Affairs Committee Vladimir Lukin meet to discuss the future of Europe on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Chaired by Misha Glenny. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
General George Robertson
Unknown:
Joschka Fischer
Unknown:
Bronislaw Geremek
Unknown:
Vladimir Lukin
Unknown:
Misha Glenny.

Michael Rosen presents the first offourtalks on the process of divorce and its aftermath. 1: Meltdown A vague feeling that a partnership is not pulling in the same direction degenerates into a successior of "D" words: disappointment, denial, distrust and disgust. Producer Jane Ray. Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm Polly Toynbee : page 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rosen
Producer:
Jane Ray.
Unknown:
Polly Toynbee

Altered States. Increasingly we take pills to change aspects of ourselves that we used to view as our character rather than a medical condition.
Does this blurthe distinction between medical, lifestyle and recreational drugs? Ian Hargreaves asks if we need to take a new approach to both legal and illegal medication. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves

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