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With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.

7.20 Yesterday in Parliament

7.25, 8.25 Sports News

7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Humphrys
Presenter:
Edward Stourton
Speaker (Thought for the Day):
Dr Leslie Griffiths

Arthur Smith hosts the travel programme that features interactive travellers' tales, reports from around the world and entertaining conversation. This week Lord Healey visits Alfriston Clergy House, the National Trust's first property, and Smith investigates the source of English eccentricity.

E-Mail: [email address removed] Phone: [number removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
Arthur Smith
Producer:
Eleanor Garland

Programmes mixing pop and politics to chart the course of general election campaigns that changed the country.

Ned Sherrin looks at 1964, the year the Beatles conquered America. The Tories thought Sir Alec Douglas Home was the man to lead the country, but Labour's Harold Wilson was determined to stop him.
(R)

Contributors

Presenter:
Ned Sherrin
Producer:
Chris Bond

In the second of two programmes Glynn Houston reads extracts from the diary of the Rev David Davies, who was a missionary and a colleague of Gladys Aylward in China. Davies's son Murray, who lived through ten years of war and Japanese occupation, examines the diary's contents.
(R)

Contributors

Reader:
Glynn Houston
Producer:
Martin Kurzik

By Agatha Christie, dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

The arrival of an anonymous letter telling Hercule Poirot to look out for Andover on the 21st of the month and signed "Yours ABC" spells the beginning of one of the Belgian sleuth's most enigmatic and disturbing cases.

Contributors

Writer:
Agatha Christie
Dramatised by:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Enyd Williams
Hercule Poirot:
John Moffatt
Captain Hastings:
Simon Williams
Chief Inspector Japp:
Philip Jackson
Inspector Crome:
Tom George
Lady Clarke:
Jane Wenham
[Actor]:
Ioan Meredith
[Actor]:
John Rye
[Actress]:
Lucy Paterson
[Actress]:
Gemma Saunders
[Actress]:
Beth Chalmers
[Actor]:
Christopher Kelham
[Actress]:
Zeina Harding-Roots
[Actor]:
Tim Treloar

Andrew Collins with the guide to the film world. He talks to legendary photographer Eve Arnold about the pictures she took of Marilyn Monroe on the set of the 1961 film The Misfits.

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Collins
Interviewee:
Eve Arnold
Producer:
Matthew Dodd

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

Foreign correspondent Allan Little spent his childhood dreaming of places beyond his village home in Scotland. Having lived most of his adult life in extreme situations around the world, what meaning does he still find in this beautiful and isolated place?

(Repeated from Sunday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Allan Little

Rosemary Hartill presents a Quaker's appreciation of religious programmes over the last 75 years, focusing on the rich vein of religious experience and storytelling. From war and peace to business ethics, she explores key religious themes and the arresting, confessional and poignant ways they have been expressed.

Contributors

Presenter:
Rosemary Hartill
Producer:
Simon Coates

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

Bette's niece has married Wenceslas and is about to be betrayed by him. Valerie Marneffe's Brazilian paramour returns to throw her two other rival lovers into jealous despair. Bette weaves a web to trap them all and secure a wealthy marriage settlement for herself. With Alison Steadman and Leslie Phillips.

(Repeated from Sunday)

Contributors

Author:
Honore de Balzac
Dramatised by:
James Friel
[Actress]:
Alison Steadman
[Actor]:
Leslie Phillips

Five eminent thinkers speak from around the world on different aspects of the complex theme of sustainable development. Presented by Kate Adie.

Leading scientist Thomas E. Lovejoy, chief biodiversity adviser to the World Bank and councillor at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, tells an audience in Los Angeles: "We are in deep trouble biologically and already into a spasm of extinction of our own making unequalled since the one which took the dinosaurs."

(Repeated from Wednesday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Kate Adie
Lecturer:
Thomas E. Lovejoy

Jane Glover explores the legacy of the founders of great musical dynasties.

While the name of violinist Ivan Galamian may not spring readily to mind, members of the dynasty he founded are more familiar - Pinchas Zukerman, Kyung-Wha Chung and Itzhak Perlman were all taught by the master whose influence touches virtually every violinist in the world.

(Repeated from Sunday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jane Glover

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