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Sir John Harvey-Jones speaks on behalf of a charity which is establishing a network of nurses with specialist training in multiple sclerosis.

Donations: MS Research Trust, [address removed]
Credit Cards: [number removed].

(Repeated Thursday 3.28pm)

Contributors

Speaker:
Sir John Harvey-Jones
Producer:
Anne Downing

From St James's Palace, the Prince of Wales presents the first Food Programme awards to those food producers, retailers, campaigners and caterers who have done the most to improve food in the United Kingdom. Derek Cooper hands out his own personal prize, Stephen Fry attempts to give the Mouldy Pork Pie Award to those who have done their best to set back the cause of good food - and you can find out who Radio Times readers voted Best Food Broadcaster of the Year.

Contributors

Presenter:
Derek Cooper
Guest:
Stephen Fry
Producer:
Paul Kobrak

Immortality as a performing musician comes not from what is done on stage, but from what is passed on to the following generations. In the first of a three-part series Jane Glover explores the legacy of the founders of great musical dynasties starting with Enrico Caruso. With tenor Dennis O'Neill, Hugh Canning of The Sunday Times and broadcaster and writer Graeme Kay.

(Repeated Saturday 11pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Glover
Interviewee:
Dennis O'Neill
Interviewee:
Hugh Canning
Interviewee:
Graeme Kay
Producer:
Paul Evans

Garden historian Caroline Holmes concludes her tour of famous gardens built by former empires.

Samuel Baker, a Victorian Englishman, established a colonial settlement at Nuwara Eliya in the highlands of Ceylon and filled it with English crops and flowers. His remarkable legacy is enthusiastically continued by Sri Lankans 150 years on.

Contributors

Presenter:
Caroline Holmes
Producer:
Mukti Jain Campion

By Honore de Balzac, dramatised in three parts by James Friel.

Paris, 1838. The faithless Baron Hulot is in financial difficulties. His daughter needs a dowry and a husband, and his saintly wife has nothing more he can pawn. Cousin Bette proposes a solution to the family's dilemma and a bizarre revenge for her own betrayal.

(Rptd Saturday 3pm)

Contributors

Author:
Honore de Balzac
Dramatised by:
James Friel
Music:
Olga Thomas Bosovskaya
Producer:
Catherine Bailey
Director:
Marilyn Imrie
Bette:
Alison Steadman
Hulot:
Leslie Phillips
Adeline:
Lindsay Duncan
Valerie:
Frances Barber
Count:
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Crevel:
Kenneth Cranham
Marneffe:
Jeremy Clyde
Hortense:
Alexandra Gilbreath
Victor:
Ifan Meredith
Celestine:
Cathy Sara
Josepha:
Hetty Baynes
Fischer/Marshall:
Ioan Meredith

The first of two programmes of poetry readings.

The Spanish Civil War began on 18 July 1936 and lasted for three years. Mike Gonzalez presents poems from both English and Spanish-speaking writers.
Readings by Paul McGann and Juliet Stevenson.

(Rptd Saturday 11.30pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Mike Gonzalez
Reader:
Paul McGann
Reader:
Juliet Stevenson
Producer:
Elaine Walker
Producer:
Mick Webb

Three letters reflecting on the meaning of home for those who have left it and the complex feelings that returning to childhood settings can evoke.

London-based comedy writer Fiona Looney joins a flood of returning emigres for her visits to Dublin at Christmas.

Contributors

Speaker:
Fiona Looney
Producer:
Nicola White

Laurie Taylor and his guests - Stephen Bayley, Anthony Grayling and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - consider different ways of enriching the mind, body and spirit: both physical and practical
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Contributors

Presenter:
Laurie Taylor
Guest:
Stephen Bayley
Guest:
Anthony Grayling
Guest:
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Producer:
Rebecca Nicholson

Andrew Rawnsley with next week's political headlines.

Including 10.45 Kebabbed: the Story of the Political Interview
Ian Hargreaves looks at how political interviewing has changed over the decades.

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Rawnsley
Reporter (Kebabbed:
the Story of the Political Interview): Ian Hargreaves
Editor:
John Evans

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