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Martha Kearney is joined by guests for lively and topical interviews and conversation. Drama: Diary of a Provincial Ladyby EM Delafield. Part 11 of 15. Editor Ruth Gardiner. E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Martha Kearney
Editor:
Ruth Gardiner.

A fictional memoir by Patrick Dennis , dramatised in six parts by Rene Basilico.
2: Love and trouble go hand in hand when Auntie Mame goes down to Georgia with Beau Burnside and her young nephew. Music Jim Parker. Director John Fawcett Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Dennis
Unknown:
Rene Basilico.
Unknown:
Beau Burnside
Music:
Jim Parker.
Director:
John Fawcett Wilson
Mame:
Dame Hilda Bracket
Patrick:
Michael J Reynolds
Young Patrick:
Zohren Weiss
Ito:
Togo Igawa
Beau:
Paul Birchard
Fanny:
Pat Starr
Euphemia:
Jane Bertish
Sally:
Denica Fairman
Emory:
Walter Lewis
Van Buren:
Vincent Marzello
Moultrie:
Vincent Marzello
Vet:
Vincent Marzello

By Patricia M Cobey. A young student in a small ; Irish town becomes pregnant. Her boyfriend and j parents react with horror, but when her baby is ' born, she changes all their lives for the better. Director Pam Brighton

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia M Cobey.
Kate:
Cathy Belton
Fergus:
Luke Griffin
Maura:
Geraldine Plunkett
James:
Pat Laffan
Mrs Wallace:
Siobhan Miley
Biddy:
Doreen Keogh
Michael:
Damien McAdam
Alexandria:
Susie Kelly
Greta:
Brigid Erin Bates

Five new stories on the theme of the body.
1: Vincent Vice 's Rainbow by Caspar Walsh , read by Jack Davenport. Gangster Vincent needs a new identity after an incendiary incident. Who betterto help him out than Serge Lafronze , plastic surgeon to the stars? But Serge's idea of a metamorphosis comes as a shock to Vince. Producer Sara Davies

Contributors

Unknown:
Vincent Vice
Unknown:
Caspar Walsh
Read By:
Jack Davenport.
Unknown:
Serge Lafronze
Producer:
Sara Davies

Everyone has a favourite tree. Ash, rowan, hornbeam, oak, they fill ourgardens, towns, streets and countryside, and are an essential element of our landscape. Elspeth Thompson visits the trees and meets the people who are passionate about them, to explore the stories behind them. Producer Sara Jane Hall

Contributors

Unknown:
Elspeth Thompson
Producer:
Sara Jane Hall

From the New Victoria theatre in Woking. Neil Mullarkey joins regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and chairman Humphrey Lyttelton. With Colin Sell at the piano. Producer Jon Naismith. Repeated Sunday 12 noon

Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton.
Producer:
Jon Naismith.

Mark Lawson talks to playwright David Edgar and biographer Gitta Sereny about Albert Speer , a new drama which is about to open at the Royal National Theatre. Producer Tanya Hudson

Contributors

Talks:
Mark Lawson
Unknown:
David Edgar
Unknown:
Gitta Sereny
Unknown:
Albert Speer
Producer:
Tanya Hudson

A new four part-series in which people on the receiving end of hatred meet their demons.
1: Anil Gupta, creator of Goodness Gracious Me, asks Bernard Manning and others why some people hate Pakistanis. Producer Roger Childs

Hatred is arguably one of the last taboos. I met someone once who publicly confessed to hating clothes-hangers, but in general we scarcely dare mention what inspires us to serious loathing. In a thoughtful series of documentaries, people who've been on the receiving end face their adversaries. Why People Hate (8.00pm R4) begins with Pakistanis and is introduced by Anil Gupta, a writer and producer of Goodness Gracious Me (above). Bernard Manning, who also makes jokes about Asians, is anathema to TV producers. He says he's not a racist but, as he and others in this programme demonstrate, it's a long way from being that simple.

The story of this week's Book at Bedtime: Anil's Ghost (10.45pm R4) is not unconnected to this theme. It is the remarkable new novel by Booker Prizewinner Michael Ondaatje. SG

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Manning

John McCarthy presents a series about his attempt to understand the Bible.
2: The Wilderness Years. During his captivity,
McCarthy first read the story of Moses. Now he goes in search of the truth and meaning behind Exodus. He gains surprising insights from
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and from Hollywood's Moses - Charlton Heston. Producer Roger Childs

Contributors

Unknown:
John McCarthy
Unknown:
Desmond Tutu
Unknown:
Charlton Heston.
Producer:
Roger Childs

Keeping Warm in the Arctic. Julian Hector discovers why an Arctic fox only begins to feel cold below minus 50 degrees Celsius. Producer Julian Hector. Repeated tomorrow llam

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Hector
Producer:
Julian Hector.

By Michael Ondaatje , abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth Bradbury , read by Paul Battacharjee.
1: For a young forensic scientist returning to her native Sri Lanka, there are ghosts old and new. Producer Di Spiers

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Ondaatje
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bradbury
Read By:
Paul Battacharjee.
Producer:
Di Spiers

By Patrick Leigh Fermor , read by Samuel West.
The poetic and award-winnning writings of Fermor's travels to Hungary in 1933, before his decorated triumphs as a Second World War resistance soldier. Abridged in five parts by Alison Joseph. Part 1. Producer Marc Jobst

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Read By:
Samuel West.
Unknown:
Alison Joseph.
Producer:
Marc Jobst

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