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An appeal on behalf of a charity which gives free advice and support to parents with children who have special educational needs.
Donations: IPSEA, [address removed]. Credit Cards: [number removed].

(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)

Contributors

Producer:
Anne Downing

John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer questions posed by members and friends of the Willoughbridge Garden Trust, Stoke-on-Trent. With chairman Eric Robson.

(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)

Contributors

Chairman:
Eric Robson
Panellist:
John Cushnie
Panellist:
Bob Flowerdew
Panellist:
Anne Swithinbank
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

Margaret Atwood's chilling vision of 21st-century America is dramatised in three parts by John Dryden.

Offred is sent to a new household to begin her third posting as a handmaid - a state-controlled breeding machine.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)

Contributors

Author:
Margaret Atwood
Dramatised by/Director:
John Dryden
Producer:
Jane Quill
Offred:
Marsha Dietlein
Serena Joy:
Leslie Hendrix
Commander:
Earl Hindman
Ofglen:
Mireille Enos
Joseph:
Dylan Chalfy
Janine:
Emma Roberts
Mildred:
Kristin Marks

David Stenhouse investigates the art of persuading a publisher to take on your tome and he talks to John Lanchester about the challenge of living up to his acclaimed first book - The Debt to Pleasure - with his new novel Mr Philips.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Stenhouse
Interviewee:
John Lanchester
Producer:
Erin Riley

Fiona Shaw introduces the last of three anthologies of new poetry read by the poets themselves, including RS Thomas and Paul Durcan. Featuring a specially commissioned sequence, South, written and read by Ken Smith.

(Repeated Saturday 11.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Fiona Shaw
Poet/Reader:
R.S. Thomas
Poet/Reader:
Paul Durcan
Poet/Reader:
Ken Smith
Producer:
Tim Dee
Producer:
Hilary Field

Michael Rosen presents the last of four programmes about words and the way we speak.

To keep warm there are beavers, Phrygians, fedoras and calpacs: words for articles you wear on the head to make a statement. Plus a look at German idioms used in English to express the Zeitgeist.

(Repeated from Thursday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Rosen

Louise Doughty and her guests novelist and scriptwriter Frederic Raphael and social historian Amanda Vickery discuss three of their favourite paperbacks.

(Repeated from Tuesday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Louise Doughty
Guest:
Frederic Raphael
Guest:
Amanda Vickery

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