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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.

Emma Thompson speaks on behalf of a charity which supports vulnerable young people who are homeless or at risk of becoming so. Producer Anne Downing. DONATIONS: Alone in London. [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: Freephone [number removed]. Repeated at 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Emma Thompson
Producer:
Anne Downing.

Resurrection Now. With the Rev Ken Chippindale and the Moderator of the Free Churches Council, the Rev Tony Burnham. A service from Wylde
Green United Reformed Church, Sutton Coldfield. Director of music Philip Bellshaw. E-MAIL: sunday.worship@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Chippindale
Unknown:
Tony Burnham.

Nicholas Parsons hosts the most devious of panel games. This week he is joined by Jenny Eclair , Tony Hawks, Graham Norton and Tim Rice. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Jenny Eclair
Unknown:
Graham Norton
Unknown:
Tim Rice.

Russell Davies examines the stories behind the opening nights of well-known musicals.
Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice took their biggest risk to date putting on the musical stage a story of political intrigue, little known outside experts on 20th-century South American history. Davies hears about events that led up to the opening night on 21 June 1978, with memories from Rice and Lloyd-Webber, Joss Ackland, lighting director David Hersey and theatre critic Michael Billington, as well as those recorded at the opening, including Elaine Page, the first Evita.
Repeated Saturday 11pm

Contributors

Presenter:
Russell Davies
Interviewee:
Andrew Lloyd-Webber
Interviewee:
Tim Rice
Interviewee:
Joss Ackland
Interviewee:
David Hersey
Interviewee:
Michael Billington
Producer:
Anne Bristow

The last of three programmes in which artist and textile designer Kaffe Fassett meets fellow craftsmen and women to talk about their work.
Natural Dyes. This week he cooks with colour when he meets prominent natural colourist Jenny Dean. Producer Sera LefroyOwen

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Dean.
Producer:
Sera Lefroyowen

A new version for radio of the bestselling verse autobiography by John Betjeman. Voiced by the author from a recording made in the sixties, he remembers his Highgate Hill childhood, Cornish holidays, school in Oxford and the master who inspired his growing love of architecture.
Soundscape and music Jim Parker, played by The Nash Ensemble
Producer Susan Roberts. Repeated Saturday 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
John Betjeman.
Music:
Jim Parker
Producer:
Susan Roberts.

Charlie Lee Potter speaks to Deidre Purcell, one of Ireland's top journalists, about her new novel Entertaining Ambrose, and looks at a reissue of Elaine Dundy's classic, The Dud Avocado, this week's Book at Bedtime.

(The next Bookclub on 4 March will be Joe Simpson's Touching the Void)
(Repeated Friday 4pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Charlie Lee Potter
Guest:
Deidre Purcell
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Christopher Cook with poetry and conversation, including guest poets Ruth Padel and Carol Rumens. Producer Susan Roberts. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Ruth Padel
Unknown:
Carol Rumens.
Producer:
Susan Roberts.

Writer, wit and raconteur Gerry Anderson takes the first of three askance glances at some of the stranger doings of the great, good and not so good in Northern Ireland today.
Pseudo-Intellectual Refuseniks and the Lone
Golfer of the Apocalypse
Producer Simon Elmes. Repeated Saturday 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerry Anderson
Producer:
Simon Elmes.

Mark Whittaker presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio over the past seven days. Producer Elaine Walker. PHONE: [number removed] FAX: [number removed]. E-MAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Whittaker
Producer:
Elaine Walker.

In six programmes Chris Bigsby introduces a mix of fresh talent and established names -writers of fiction and fact - who have been commissioned to write and talk about the ideas and preoccupations ofourtimes. The Pram in the Hall
Are children the enemies of artistic promise? With Liz Jensen , Nicholas Lezard and Lucretia Stewart. Producer Tim Dee

Contributors

Introduces:
Chris Bigsby
Unknown:
Liz Jensen
Unknown:
Nicholas Lezard
Unknown:
Lucretia Stewart.
Producer:
Tim Dee

Decoding Iceland. A company called deCODE plans to map the gene pool of Iceland by studying the medical and genealogical records of the entire population. Huge medical breakthroughs may result from the research, but many Icelandic doctors are deeply worried will the sacred bond of trust between patient and doctor be broken? Peter Day reports from Reykjavik. Rptd from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day

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 rptd Wednesday 8.45pm

Contributors

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

In three programmes, Valentine Cunningham looks at how music and musicians were manipulated to further the political aims of Hitler's Nazi regime. This week how the seeds of discontent sown in the Weimar Republic generated the quest for the true Aryan successors to Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
Producer Paul Evans (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Valentine Cunningham
Producer:
Paul Evans

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