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Christopher Timothy speaks on behalf of a charity which works in underprivileged countries to prevent suffering and hunger by improving animal welfare and husbandry.
Donations: Vetaid [address removed]
Credit cards: [number removed].
(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)

Contributors

Speaker:
Christopher Timothy
Producer:
Anne Downing

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

Contributors

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

Stephanie Hughes presents a six-part series exploring the mysteries and mechanics of writing music.

Anthony Payne, who made a performing version of Elgar's third symphony from the composer's sketches, compares notes with television and film composer Christopher Gunning.

(Repeated Saturday 11pm)
Brian Kay on the inside story of composing music: page 41

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephanie Hughes
Guest:
Anthony Payne
Guest:
Christopher Gunning
Producer:
Alan Hall

John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank are guests of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council, Manchester. With chairman Eric Robson.

(Repeated Wednesday 3pm)

Contributors

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

Monty Don in conversation with some of the country's leading gardeners.

This week Beth Chatto, who has transformed an inhospitable East Anglian field into a garden which attracts thousands of visitors a year.

Contributors

Presenter:
Monty Don
Guest:
Beth Chatto
Producer:
Felicity Goodall

Oscar Wilde's famous novel is dramatised in two parts by Nick McCarty.
"If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old... I would give my soul for that." The story of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who, Faust-like, makes a foolish wish - the granting of which destroys him.
(Repeated Saturday 9pm)

Contributors

Author:
Oscar Wilde
Dramatised by:
Nick McCarty
Music composed and played by:
David Chitton
Piano:
Simon Morecroft
Director:
Gordon House
Dorian Gray:
Jamie Glover
Lord Henry Wotton:
Ian McDiarmid
Basil Hallward:
Steven Pacey
Sybil Vane:
Tilly Gaunt
Mrs Vane:
Elizabeth Mansfie!d
Jim Vane:
Harry Myers
Lord Fermor:
Brett Usher
Aunt Agatha:
Mary Wimbush
Theatre Manager:
Gavin Muir
Lady Henry Wotton:
Elizabeth Bell
Lady Narborough:
Tessa Worsley
Francis:
Tom George

Frank Delaney talks to anthology editors Christopher Ricks and Jo Shapcott and introduces listeners' requests for favourite poems from the volume they have compiled.

(Repeated Saturday 11.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Frank Delaney
Guest:
Christopher Ricks
Guest:
Jo Shapcott
Producer:
Sara Davies

The last of four philosophical adventures in the anthropology of everyday life by Steven Connor.

All magical objects are objects out of time. Sweets are intensely anachronistic and always belong to our past. Why and how do they hold time up?

(Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Steven Connor
Producer:
Tim Dee

Stuart Maconie hosts an entertaining, intelligent discussion looking at what effect the big stories of today will have on all our tomorrows. How is now different from the future we were told to expect? And what will it really be like in the future?

Contributors

Presenter:
Stuart Maconie
Producer:
Andrea Davidson

Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines, including 10.45 There Should Be a Law against it. Max Cotton reports on an attempt by a backbench MP to improve conditions for Britain's 600 million chickens.

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Rawnsley
Reporter (There Should Be a Law against It):
Max Cotton
Editor:
John Evans

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