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Martha Kearney is joined by guests for lively and topical interviews and conversation from a woman's point of view. Drama: Music and Silence by Rose Tremain. Part 6 of 15. Editor Ruth Gardiner. E-MAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Martha Kearney
Unknown:
Rose Tremain.
Editor:
Ruth Gardiner.

Lisa Appignanesi presents an exploration of the work of the 19th-century neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud.
2: Lyingonthe Couch. Has 100 years of analysis turned us all into case histories, and why does the talking cure, as developed by Freud, still leave so many people divided over its worth and meaning? Is itjust a spell, will it live on in Cyberspace, and Who gets well? Producer Mark Burman

Contributors

Unknown:
Lisa Appignanesi
Unknown:
Sigmund Freud.
Producer:
Mark Burman

A fictional memoir by Patrick Dennis , dramatised in six parts by Rene Basilico. 5: Patrick is 22, out of college and has his own money. He has also found true love - enter Auntie Mame. With Dame Hilda Bracket as Auntie Mame and Michael J Reynolds narrating as Patrick Dennis.
Theme music Jim Parker. Producer John Fawcett Wilson

Contributors

Unknown:
Patrick Dennis
Unknown:
Rene Basilico.
Unknown:
Hilda Bracket
Unknown:
Michael J Reynolds
Unknown:
Patrick Dennis.
Music:
Jim Parker.
Producer:
John Fawcett Wilson
Patrick:
Adam Sims
Gloria:
Barbara Bamee
Mr Upson:
John Sharian
Mrs Upson:
Kate Harper
Boyd:
Jeff Harding
Jeweller:
Jeff Harding

With John Waite.
1.00 The World at One With Nick Clarke.
1.30 Mastermind
Anotherfour contestants take the chairto face Peter Snow 's questions on their specialist subjects and on general knowledge. Heat 6. Producer Paul Bajoria

Contributors

Unknown:
John Waite.
Unknown:
Nick Clarke.
Unknown:
Peter Snow
Producer:
Paul Bajoria

Five dramas about extraordinary children from around the world.2: Child of the Snow by Lee Hall , based on his meeting with a boy called Ole.
Matti is the 14-year-old son of a traditional Sami family living in Lapland, 250 miles inside the Arctic Circle. The last nomadic tribe in Europe, the Sami have no borders and survive along with their reindeer- reindeer herding is in Matti's blood. But Matti is a modern boy- he loves messing about with computers and hates pollution, drugs and Ginger Spice. Starring Ben Tibber. Director Kate Rowland

Contributors

Unknown:
Lee Hall
Unknown:
Ben Tibber.
Director:
Kate Rowland

A work in progress by Emma Donoghue-five short stories from the margins of history.
1: Figures of Speech, read by Frances Tomelty. On a hot summer's day in 1632, Mary Stuart
O'Donnell writes her last will and testament. Producer Lisa Osborne

Contributors

Unknown:
Emma Donoghue-Five
Read By:
Frances Tomelty.
Unknown:
Mary Stuart
Producer:
Lisa Osborne

In five programmes Lionel Kelleway introduces the uninvited wildlife guests that lodge in our homes -the other residents the estate agent never mentioned. 1: The Kitchen. While the housefly, one of the world's most dangerous insects, spreads germs and disease, cockroaches enjoy a midnight feast in the larder. Producer Simon Roberts (R)

Contributors

Introduces:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
Simon Roberts

Jeremy Hardy joins regulars Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden , Tim Brooke-Taylor and chairman
Humphrey Lyttelton for the antidote to panel games. With Colin Sell at the piano.
Producer Jon Naismith. Repeated Sunday 12 noon

Contributors

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

A romance by Rose Tremain , adapted in 15 parts by Penny Leicester. 6: The angelic Peter Claire finds love in a field of sheep.
Producer Di Speirs. Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Rose Tremain
Unknown:
Penny Leicester.
Unknown:
Peter Claire
Producer:
Di Speirs.
Narrators:
Nicholas Farrell
Narrators:
Sian Thomas
Kirsten:
Frances Barber
Francesca:
Stella Gonet
King:
David Timson
Peter:
Robert Harper
Queen:
Elizabeth Bell
Emilia:
Eleanor Tremain

Last in a series in which people on the receiving end of hatred meet their demons. The Moral Maze panellist and acclaimed historian David Starkey is gay, but reluctant to be subsumed into anyone's camp. From Bible-bashers to queer-bashers, from defenders of the realm to defenders of Clause 28, he meets his critics. Producer Roger Childs

Contributors

Unknown:
David Starkey
Producer:
Roger Childs

A series about John McCarthy 's attempt to understand the Bible.
5: Who Do You Saythat lAm?Two days after
Christ's supposed 2,000th birthday, McCarthy visits the places where he lived and died, in search of the real Jesus. Did the Gospel writers faithfully preserve his message or embellish it With their Own Views? Producer Roger Childs (R)
RT SHOP: Buy John McCarthy 's Bible Journey (BBC Radio
Collection, two double cassettes) for just £12.99 including p&p. Send a cheque payable to RT Shop to [address removed] ortelephone the credit card hotline on [number removed].

Contributors

Unknown:
John McCarthy
Producer:
Roger Childs
Unknown:
John McCarthy

The coasts and island cliffs of Britain are vitally important globally for many sea-bird species that come here to breed every year. Mark Carwardine visits one of the noisiest and most densely populated sea-bird colonies in Europe-that of the unusual-looking, blond, blue-eyed gannet on Bass Rock-and learns about the threats to such communities. Producer Sheena Duncan. Rptd tomorrow llam

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Carwardine
Producer:
Sheena Duncan.

Emma Fielding and William Gaminara read
Deborah Moggach 's bestselling story of passion in 17th-century Holland in which an artist falls for his married subject. Abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth Bradbury. Part 1. Producer Sarah Johnson (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
William Gaminara
Unknown:
Deborah Moggach
Unknown:
Elizabeth Bradbury.
Producer:
Sarah Johnson

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