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Moths. While moths may not be as colourful as butterflies, they are just as fascinating and ten times as numerous. Lionel Kelleway visits a Cornish wood as he goes in search of these ghostly nocturnal insects. Producer Sheena Duncan

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
Sheena Duncan

Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week, moral arguments and perspectivies on stories, familiar and unfamiliar.
Producer Karen Maurice. E-MAIL: sunday@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Bolton
Producer:
Karen Maurice.

Nick Ross speaks on behalf of a charity which is raising funds to set up the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science. Next week's Radio Times speaks to Alan Farthing about Jill Dando's memorial fund.
Donations: The Jill Dando Fund, [address removed]
Credit Cards: [number removed].
(Repeated 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm)

Contributors

Speaker:
Nick Ross
Producer:
Anne Downing

From Houston and Killellan parish church, Renfrewshire, led by the Rev Georgie Baxendale. With the choir of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow. Director of music Fridrik Walker. Organist Ian Shaw.

Contributors

Unknown:
Revgeorgie Baxendale.
Organist:
Fridrik Walker.
Organist:
Ian Shaw.

Doctor Sheila Cassidy bares her soul to Professor Anthony Clare and considers the events and influences that have shaped her strong religious beliefs and led her to devote herself, as a doctor, to the care of the terminally ill. The driving force of her life has always been her faith, particularly since her arrest and torture 25 years ago by Pinochet's secret police.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Professor Anthony Clare
Interviewee:
Dr Sheila Cassidy
Producer:
Michael Ember.

Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes are Deborah Bull, Elizabeth Buchan ,
Alan Corduner and Miles Kington.
ReaderWilliam Franklyn. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Elizabeth Buchan
Unknown:
Alan Corduner
Unknown:
Miles Kington.
Unknown:
Readerwilliam Franklyn.

Emily Buchanan invites some of Britain's most distinguished foreign correspondents to remember the music that evokes the unforgettable events which theyfound themselves reportingto the world. This week
ITN's Michael Nicholson recalls the ubiquitous propaganda song he heard daily during the war in Vietnam, the recording he made of Angolan freedom fighters harmonising in the middle of a war-scorched forest and Albinoni's Adagio on the Streets Of Sarajevo. Producer Simon Eimes

Contributors

Unknown:
Emily Buchanan
Unknown:
Michael Nicholson
Producer:
Simon Eimes

By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , dramatised in two parts by Nandita Ghose. In post-independence Delhi, two influential families now have very different lives. Between them moves Esmond, the enigmatic Englishman, with his love-hate attitude to India. 1: Esmond meets idealistic Shakuntala.
Director Alison Hindell. Repeated Saturday 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Unknown:
Nandita Ghose.
Director:
Alison Hindell.
Shakuntala:
Nina Wadia
Har Dayal:
Roshan Seth
Esmond:
Simon Armstrong
Ram Nath:
Nadim Sawalha
Gulab:
Mina Anwar
Uma:
Yasmin Sidhwa
Indira:
Sakuntala Ramanee
Madhuri:
Jamila Massey
Lakshmi:
Shireen Shah
Betty:
Lesley Rooney
Amrit:
Lyndam Gregory

Charlie Lee Potter talks to novelist Penny Vincenzi and to Nicola Beaumont , founder of Persephone Books, an imprint that republishes neglected works. Producer Fiona McLean. Repeated Friday 4pm

Contributors

Talks:
Charlie Lee Potter
Unknown:
Nicola Beaumont
Producer:
Fiona McLean.

Frank Delaney presents your requests for poems inspired by the ancient world - poems of heroes, gods and legends from writers including Christopher Marlowe , WB Yeats and WH Auden. Readers
Sean Barrett , Stephen Boxer and Sinead Cusack. Producer Thomas Morris. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Unknown:
Christopher Marlowe
Readers:
Sean Barrett
Readers:
Stephen Boxer
Readers:
Sinead Cusack.
Producer:
Thomas Morris.

Radio 4's series on modern warfare and the consequences for global peace. 3: The New Peacemakers
. Edward Stourton visits Angola after 25 years of civil war to examine the peacemaking impact of the multinational oil companies and the International Monetary Fund. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Stourton

Gail Robinson explores the lives of Native North Americans today. 3: This week she visits two families as they attempt to build cabins in the wilderness, ferrying building materials by helicopter and canoe. They are watched, with great amusement, by their Cree neighbours, but nobody offers helpful advice.
Producer Jane O'Rourke. Repeated Saturday 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Gail Robinson
Producer:
Jane O'Rourke.

Diana Madill presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio over the past seven days. Producer Neil George. PHONE: [number removed] FAX: [number removed]. E-MAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw

Contributors

Unknown:
Diana Madill
Producer:
Neil George.

Chris Bigsby introduces a series mixing new writing, established names and discussion.
9: The Great American Microcosm. The first of two special editions from New York, with Rick Moody , George Sanders and AM Homes. Producer Miriam Newman

Contributors

Introduces:
Chris Bigsby
Unknown:
Rick Moody
Unknown:
George Sanders
Producer:
Miriam Newman

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More