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Jerri Nielsen , the American doctortrapped in Antarctica who was forced to perform her own cancer treatment, joins Jenni Murray to talk about her struggle for survival. Drama: NotEitheran Experimental Doll
. Part 1 of 5. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jerri Nielsen
Unknown:
Jenni Murray

Archaeologist Julian Richards uncovers the hidden histories of towns. St Peter Port. On Guernsey, he uncovers evidence of Roman occupation, and finds out how witch trials, legalised piracy and banking ! have shaped the island'scapital. producer Karen Gregor

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Richards
Producer:
Karen Gregor

I Giovanni Guareschi 's series of humorous tales about a colourful parish priest in a quaint, northern Italian village are dramatised infourparts by Peter Kerry. 1: Peppone, the communist mayor, is trying to get his new baby son baptised, but the local priest, Don Camillo , has refused.
Could it be something to do with the fact that the mayor wants to christen the baby "Lenin"?
Producers Chris Wallis and Jill Waters

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Guareschi
Unknown:
Peter Kerry.
Unknown:
Don Camillo
Producers:
Chris Wallis
Producers:
Jill Waters
Don Camillo:
Alun Armstrong
God:
Joss Ackland
Bishop:
John Moffatt
Peppone:
Sean Prendergast
Mrs Peppone:
Becky Hindley
Sylvano:
Ben Crowe
Castelino:
Colin MacLachlan
Mrs Castelino:
Eve Karpf
Brusco:
Harry Myers

Ilan McMillan's drama begins at six in the morning at Round the Bend cafe in Georgetown, Maine, when the local fishermen, clam diggers and hunters arrive to drink coffee, buy cigarettes and play cribbage. As the light grows outside, a travel writer sits, listens and, though aware that he should be movingon, stays.
Producer Viv Beeby
Music composed and performed by Snake Davies

Contributors

Producer:
Viv Beeby
Unknown:
Snake Davies
Writer:
Ian McMillan
Watching woman:
Bonnie Hurran

In three programmes Kate Saunders learns about the practices surrounding pregnancy and childbirth in different religious and cultural traditions. Today she joins celebrations which mark the birth of a Jewish boy. Producer Rosie Dawson

Contributors

Unknown:
Kate Saunders
Producer:
Rosie Dawson

In an increasingly secular society we still need to get to grips with life's big questions about identity and purpose, love and money, work and growing old. Muriel Gray and guests investigate those who think they have the answers. Producer Lindsay Leonard

Contributors

Unknown:
Muriel Gray
Producer:
Lindsay Leonard

Joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes this week is political commentator John Cole. Reader Patricia Hughes.
Producer Carol Smith. Repeated Sunday 12.04pm E-MAIL: quote.unquote@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Reader:
John Cole.
Reader:
Patricia Hughes.
Producer:
Carol Smith.

A moving collection of letters from fifties South
Africa, dramatised in five parts by Rosemary Kay. Lily Moya was a 15-year-old Transkei orphan schoolgirl, desperate for an education. She sought help from Mabel Palmer , a 70-year-old white educationalist. Their correspondence lay forgotten until the seventies when researcher
Shula Marks unearthed their extraordinary story. 1: Lilywrites to Mabel, pleading for help to escape her oppressive uncle.
Director Polly Thomas. Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosemary Kay.
Unknown:
Lily Moya
Unknown:
Mabel Palmer
Director:
Polly Thomas.
Shula:
Shula
Lily:
Wendy Baxter
Mabel:
Paola Dlonisottl
Guardian:
Connie M'Gadzah

Parabolic flights in which a plane breaks free of the earth's gravitational pull are used fortraining cosmonauts before they go into space. Emma Jane Kirby travels to Star City in Moscow with a group called Arts Catalyst, which is sending dancers, acrobats and film-makers to explore the creative potential of weightlessness. As she takes her first steps into zero gravity she discovers the intense emotions released through this extreme physical experience. ProducerSara Jane Hall (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Emma Jane Kirby
Producersara:
Jane Hall

Korea. South Korea remains "protected" from the communist North by 37,000 American troops. But after 50 years, with relations between the two Koreas improving, US troops are increasingly seen as more of a hindrance. Julian Pettifer travels to the Republic to explore the "Yankee Go Home" sentiment. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Pettifer

Lionel Kellewayjourneys through six European countries to meet the wildlife and the people working to conserve European diversity.
The Mushroom Trade. Is the international trade in wild mushrooms part of a wonderful, sustainable tradition, or a threatto these fascinating and underestimated organisims that are the very foundation of the forests of Europe?
Producer Grant Sonnex. E-MAIL: nature@bbc.co.uk
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co. uk/nature/animals/bbc/wild_europe

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Kellewayjourneys
Producer:
Grant Sonnex.

John Sessions relates the story of Dante's epic journey through Hell, guided by the ghost of his mentor, Virgil. They encounter mythical beasts, demons, giants, and rivers of boiling blood on their fantastic adventure. Part 1.
Producer Dan Freedman

Contributors

Producer:
Dan Freedman
Dante:
John Sessions
Virgil:
Leonard Fenton
Beatrice:
Annabel Giles
Francesca:
Britta Gartner

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