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With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Canon Eric James.
8.45 Yesterday In Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Sarah Montague.
Unknown:
Canon Eric James.

Arthur Smith honours International Year of the Volunteer, examining ways in which people can volunteer their assistance at various local tourist locations, even throughout an entire holiday. Producer Rebecca Nicholson PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage E-MAIL: excessbaggage@bbc.co.uk

Warren Mitchell mixes pop and politics to chart the ups and downs of our leaders as they face the general election campaign. 1966 - the year of swinging London, mini skirts and the World Cup.
The Rolling Stones, the Walker Brothers and Nancy Sinatra were in the charts. Harold Wilson was in Downing Street, clinging to office after a narrow victory 17 months earlier. He called an election at the end of March. Everyone thought it was a foregone conclusion - everyone except the new Conservative leader Ted Heath. ProducerChris Bond

Contributors

Unknown:
Warren Mitchell
Unknown:
Nancy Sinatra
Unknown:
Harold Wilson
Leader:
Ted Heath.

Paul Lewis with impartial money advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Jennifer Clarke. Repeated tomorrow 9pm
Paul Lewis 's ten ways to make the most out of tax - Know How: page 44

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Lewis
Producer:
Jennifer Clarke.
Unknown:
Paul Lewis

Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the topical comedy programme. With Steve Furst , Emma Kennedy and Paul Putner. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Punt
Unknown:
Hugh Dennis
Unknown:
Steve Furst
Unknown:
Emma Kennedy
Unknown:
Paul Putner.

Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at Ernest Bevin College, south London, by panellists including Michael Heseltine MP, presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament Lord Steel and, on the 50th anniversary of his first appearance on the programme, Tony Benn MP. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Michael Heseltine
Unknown:
Tony Benn

An adaptation by Mike Walker of C.S. Forester's classic romantic adventure set in German-controlled central Africa during the First World War. Two unlikely companions - a strait-laced missionary and a gin-swigging Cockney - find themselves marooned. They board Charlie's old boat - The African Queen - for a journey through the rapids and crocodile swamps of the Ulanga river.

Contributors

Author:
C.S. Forester
Adapted by:
Mike Walker
Music:
Stuart Gordon
Director:
Kate McAll
Rose Sayer:
Tara Fitzgerald
Captain:
Paul Humpoletz
Charlie Allnut:
Jamie Foreman

Robert McNab presents six programmes about the visual arts, exploring stories and themes by focusing on the locations where the art was produced. Paint Rage. The painting of violence is as old as art itself, but no one has treated the subject of sexual brutal ity more blatantly than the German artists of the Weimaryears, in particular George Grosz and his friend Otto Dix. McNab discovers a new and surprising link between this pair of painters and the celebrated American abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock. Reader Lee Donald. Producer David Perry

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert McNab
Unknown:
George Grosz
Reader:
Jackson Pollock.
Reader:
Lee Donald.
Producer:
David Perry

Pooches on parade as Tom Sutcliffe judges the pedigree of Best in Show, a tickling new mockumentary from This Is Spinal Tap's Christopher Guest , whose latest film depicts a world of melodrama and bile behind America's dog show competitions. Also reviewed is number9dream, David Mitchell 's follow-up to his acclaimed debut novel Ghostwritten.
Producer Erika Wright

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Unknown:
Christopher Guest
Unknown:
David Mitchell
Producer:
Erika Wright

Anthony Burgess 's classic sixties comedy is dramatised in two parts by Jim Poyser.
1: Enderby, mediocre poet sans pareil, bursts on to an unsuspecting world, scattering bread crumbs and bad verse. Misadventures abound as he becomes the bemused recipient of the attentions of the lovely Vesta Bainbridge. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Burgess
Unknown:
Jim Poyser.

Michael Buerk chairs a live debate in which
David Cook , Janet Daley , Ian Hargreaves and David Starkey cross-examine witnesses on their controversial and conflicting views of the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
David Cook
Unknown:
Janet Daley
Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves
Unknown:
David Starkey

From Budapest to Pakistan - Homelands and Identity. Christopher Cook with poetry and chat.
With guest poets Moniza Alvi and George Szirtes. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Moniza Alvi
Unknown:
George Szirtes.

M Five short stories about the family. 4: The Pilot
Lightby Rhodri Clarke , read by Sue Roderick. A chance encounter with a Polish tour bus triggers Mama's childhood memories of the capture of her Polish family by the Russian army in the war. Producer Jane Dauncey (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Lightby Rhodri Clarke
Read By:
Sue Roderick.
Producer:
Jane Dauncey

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