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The Longing to Belong. Mark Tully explores why the longing to bridge the gulf that exists between isolation and intimacy runs so deep within us and wonders whether it can ever be truly met? Producer Beverley McAinsh. Repeated at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Tully
Producer:
Beverley McAinsh.

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Bolton
Producer:
Liz Leonard.

Jonathon Porritt speaks on behalf of a charity which works to protect the world's forests. Producer Anne Downing
DONATIONS: Forest StewardshipCouncil, [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: Freephone [number removed] Repeated at 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathon Porritt
Producer:
Anne Downing

Comment, context and colour from the United States, with veteran commentator Alistair Cooke. Repeated from Friday
BBC Radio Collection: two volumes of Alistair Cooke's Letter from America are available on audio cassette from all good retail outlets and [web address removed]

Contributors

Speaker:
Alistair Cooke

Food scares and good news stories on the healthiness of highly processed foods or GM crops are alljustified by "research". But whose research? And do those who pay the piper call the tune? Derek Cooper investigates.
Producer Sheila Dillon. ACTION LINE: [number removed]
Extended repeat tomorrow 4pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Derek Cooper
Producer:
Sheila Dillon.

Russell Davies examines the stories behind the opening nights of well-known musicals.

This week he recalls the musical Canterbury Tales which opened in the spring of 1968. This was the last show to come under the jurisdiction of the Lord Chamberlain's office which ruled that "the fart must not sound throughout the theatre".

(Repeated Saturday 11pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Russell Davies
Producer:
Sally Ratman

A new series of three programmes in which artist and textile designer Kaffe Fassett meets fellow craftsmen and women to talk about their work.
Willow Basket-making. Kaffe enters the world of willow when he visits basket-maker Norah Kennedy. Producer Sera Lefroy Owen

Contributors

Unknown:
Norah Kennedy
Producer:
Sera Lefroy Owen

Robertson Davies 's celebrated trilogy on the life and death of Francis Cornish , international art expert and mysterious millionaire philanthropist, is dramatised by Roger Danes.
2: The Knave of Coins. A tragic and long-lost brother, a liking for funeral parlours, a beautiful young artist's model, and a period of time spent hidden away in a pre-war German castle-the Rev Darcourt 's ferreting into Cornish's past begins to shine light into some very dark corners.
Music David Dorward. Director Patrick Rayner. Rptd Saturday 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Robertson Davies
Unknown:
Francis Cornish
Dramatised By:
Roger Danes.
Unknown:
Rev Darcourt
Music:
David Dorward.
Director:
Patrick Rayner.
Francis:
William Hope
Simon:
Matt Zimmerman
Mamusia:
Elaine Claxton
Mary-Jacobine:
Buffy Davis
Maria:
Barbara Barnes
Ismay:
Rachel Atkins
Saraceni:
Nigel Anthony
Prince Max:
David Holt
Arthur:
John Guerrasio
Zadok:
Gavin Muir

Frank Delaney presents a selection of verse from the Victorian era, including poems by Emily Dickinson , Lewis Carol , WS Gilbert and Edward Lear. Readers Susie Brann , Stephen Moore , Tim Piggot Smith and Bill Wallis.
Producer Paul Dodgson. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Unknown:
Emily Dickinson
Unknown:
Lewis Carol
Unknown:
Ws Gilbert
Readers:
Edward Lear.
Readers:
Susie Brann
Readers:
Stephen Moore
Readers:
Tim Piggot Smith
Readers:
Bill Wallis.
Producer:
Paul Dodgson.

Drawing on his own experience, expert analysis and the confessions of ordinary people, Michael Rosen discovers what it is to be wrong.
The Charles Bovary Principle. On being placed, by another, in a state of being permanently wrong. However kindly and generously Dr Bovary behaves, his wife has decided he will forever live in the bubble labelled "wrong" .This happens to individuals and nations and the consequences are surprising. Producer Jane Ray. Repeated Saturday 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rosen
Unknown:
Charles Bovary
Producer:
Jane Ray.

David Aaronovitch presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio over the past seven days.
Phone: [number removed] Fax: [number removed]. E-Mail: [email address removed] Website: [web address removed]

Contributors

Presenter:
David Aaronovitch
Producer:
Elaine Walker

Phil Hammond presents the discussion programme, looking at perceptions of various industries. This week he examines Britain's latest craze, the therapy industry, with guests including Dr Raj Persaud. Producer Alison Vernon-Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Phil Hammond
Unknown:
Dr Raj Persaud.
Producer:
Alison Vernon-Smith

Next week's political headlines with Andrew Rawnsley. Including 10.45 Hacks from the Sticks Max Pearson follows a day in the life of a regional lobby correspondent. Editor John Evans
Hacks from the Sticks repeated Wednesday 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley.
Unknown:
Max Pearson
Editor:
John Evans

Vive La Revolution! In two programmes Kit
Hesketh-Harvey sets out to prove that you do not have to be French to write chanson - or do you? Producers Ian Docherty and Lynsey Moyes (R)

Contributors

Producers:
Ian Docherty
Producers:
Lynsey Moyes

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