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An appeal on behalf of a charity which helps disadvantaged young people develop their physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.

Donations: Mountbatten Community Trust,[address removed]
Credit Cards: [number removed].
(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)

Contributors

Producer:
Anne Downing

"The heart has its reasons." Marking the Sunday before Burns Night. With the Rev Johnston McKay in Bothwell Parish Church, Lanarkshire, and the Choir of Paisley Abbey. Directed by George McPhee. Organist John Langdon.

Contributors

Celebrant:
Rev. Johnston McKay
Singers:
Choir of Paisley Abbey
Musical Director:
George McPhee
Organist:
John Langdon

Nicholas Parsons is joined by Peter Jones, Paul Merton, Maria McErlane and Stephen Fry for radio's most devious panel game. Recorded at the Radio Theatre, London. (Repeated from Monday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Nicholas Parsons
Panellist:
Peter Jones
Panellist:
Paul Merton
Panellist:
Maria McErlane
Panellist:
Stephen Fry

David Owen Norris explores the life and music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Almost unknown today, this black composer was one of the most popular of young composers in Edwardian Britain.
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(Repeated Saturday 11pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Owen Norris
Producer:
Kate McAll

Monty Don in conversation with six of the country's leading gardeners. Joy Larkcom, doyenne of vegetable gardening, has revived unusual vegetable and salad crops in her productive yet ornamental organic potager.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Monty Don
Interviewee:
Joy Larkcom
Producer:
Felicity Goodall

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

Offred's life with former television evangelist Serena Joy and the Commander becomes increasingly difficult.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)

Contributors

Author:
Margaret Atwood
Dramatised by/Director:
John Dryden
Producer:
Jane Quill
Offred:
Marsha Dietlein
Serena Joy:
Leslie Hendrix
Joseph:
Dylan Chalfy
Aunt Lydia:
Marian Seldes
Professor:
Dermot Crowley
Commander:
Earl Hindman
Ofglen:
Mireille Enos
Janine:
Emma Roberts
Moira:
Tasha Lawrence

How do writers hang on to their cultural history and also adapt to the new? David Stenhouse discusses the impact of living in Britain on writers from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa with Booker-nominated novelist Ahdaf Soueif and Ferdinand Dennis, editor of Voices of the Crossing, a new collection of essays and memoirs.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Stenhouse
Guest:
Ahdaf Soueif
Guest:
Ferdinand Dennis
Producer:
Lawrence Pollard

Frank Delaney, Martin Jarvis, Eleanor Bron and Andrew Sachs celebrate the return of this popular request programme when they entertain an audience at the Watershed in Bristol with some of your favourite poems.
(Repeated Saturday 11.30pm)

Contributors

Reader:
Frank Delaney
Reader:
Martin Jarvis
Reader:
Eleanor Bron
Reader:
Andrew Sachs
Producer:
Viv Beeby

Malaria kills millions every year, and workers lose countless days to its raging fevers. In the last of three programmes Isabel Hilton examines the arguments now being forwarded by public health critics and activists who suggest that if malaria sufferers were well-off rather than destitute, the big pharmaceutical companies would have found a way to control the disease.

(Repeated from Tuesday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Isabel Hilton

Four philosophical adventures in the anthropology of everyday life by Steven Connor.

The rough magic of things is proliferating and prospering as never before - on the silver screen and the computer screen. They both reveal and conceal, yet we love them for their duality.

Contributors

Presenter:
Steven Connor
Producer:
Tim Dee

Raj Persaud introduces three programmes from the Bethlem Royal hospital in Kent which explore life on three psychiatric wards. The psychosis unit sounds like a frightening place for newcomers, but patients and staff can both benefit from this unique environment and its innovative approaches to treating schizophrenia.
See Tuesday's Choice on page 122.
(Repeated from Tuesday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Raj Persaud

Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines.

Including 10.45 On the Road
Dinah Lammiman joins the Welsh Affairs Select Committee in north Wales as its members look for the causes of and, they hope, find solutions to the problems of social exclusion.

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Rawnsley
Reporter (On the Road):
Dinah Lammiman
Editor:
John Evans

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