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A special edition of the programme to mark the tenth anniversary of the UN Convention forthe Rights of the Child. The UN's special representative for children and armed conflict, Ugandan Olara Otunnu, chooses words and music spanning cultures and continents, including Andrew Motion 's visit to Anne Frank 's
Huis and an early performance by Yehudi Menuhin. Producer Jane Jeffes. Repeated at 11.30pm
Programme of the Week: page 133

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Motion
Unknown:
Anne Frank
Unknown:
Yehudi Menuhin.
Producer:
Jane Jeffes.

Ben Coutts has spent a lifetime in farming and estate management in the Grampian Mountains of Scotland, but his farming is just the tip of the iceberg. He has been a politician, broadcaster, and author and was a young captain in the Second World War. In this programme his full life is revealed. Producer Hugh O'Donnell

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Coutts
Producer:
Hugh O'Donnell

Alan Titchmarsh speaks on behalf of a charity which provides telephones for over 1,000 blind people who otherwise could not afford one.
DONATIONS: Telephones for the Blind Fund, [address removed]. CREDIT CARDS: [number removed]44 Repeated Thursday 3.28pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh

The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the Grand Opera House in York. Jeremy Hardy and Sandi Toksvig join regulars Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor . Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair. Musical accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandi Toksvig
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton
Provided By:
Colin Sell.

By Iris Murdoch, dramatised in three parts by Michael Bakewell.

Raising the bell from the lake required almost supernatural strength, and Dora is determined to continue playing the witch in the holy community of Imber. Final part.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)

Contributors

Author:
Iris Murdoch
Dramatised by:
Michael Bakewell
Music:
Elizabeth Parker
Producer:
Catherine Bailey
Director:
Jane Morgan
Michael Meade:
Crispin Redman
Paul Greenfield:
Nicholas Farrell
Nick Fawley:
Nicholas Boulton
James Tayper Pace:
Philip Voss
Mrs Mark:
Jane Booker
The Abbess:
Janet Suzman
Dora Greenfield:
Cathryn Bradshaw
Noel Spens:
Charlie Simpson
The Bishop:
Norman Rodway
Catherine Fawley:
Emma Gregory
Toby Gashe:
Jamie Bamber
Mark Strafford:
Matthew Morgan

David Stenhouse is joined by ex-Python and writer Terry Jones, writer and reviewer Philip Pullman and children's editor of The Bookseller Caroline Horn to recommend children's fiction and non-fiction for Christmas.
(Rptd Friday 4pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Stenhouse
Guest:
Terry Jones
Guest:
Philip Pullman
Guest:
Caroline Horn
Producer:
Erin Riley

Poetry and conversation with Christopher Cook whose guests this week are the popular Scottish poets Liz Lochhead and Robert Crawford. Both have drawn on nationality and gender and an acute sense of place in their poems.
Producer Lindsay Leonard. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Liz Lochhead
Unknown:
Robert Crawford.
Producer:
Lindsay Leonard.

Michael Rosen presents a series of talks on the process of divorce and its aftermath, drawing on his own experience and eye-witness accounts from estate agents, grandparents, lawyers and counsellors. 2: The Phoney Peace. The warring couple tries to patch things up. Relatives worry about what to write in the Christmas cards.
Producer Jane Ray. Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rosen
Producer:
Jane Ray.

Doctors, teachers and civil servants are under attack as "forces of conservatism". Tony Blair wants them to be more like the private sector.
David Walker asks if the public is at risk of losing its servants' prized professionalism. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Blair
Unknown:
David Walker

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