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Lively and topical interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view, presented by Jenni Murray. Drama: Manuscripts Don't Burn by Yelena Bulgakova. Part 1 Of 5. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Contributors

Presented By:
Jenni Murray
Unknown:
Yelena Bulgakova

American humorist Joe Queenan slips on his breastplate and helmet behind the scenes of the booming British historical re-enactment business and asks, " Is this a new phenomenon ? Is it explicable ? Is it even healthy ?" Only the UK traders and makers of historical equipment can really help him OUt. Producer Miles Warde

Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Queenan
Producer:
Miles Warde

Giovanni Guareschi 's humorous tales about a colourful parish priest in a northern Italian village are dramatised in four parts by Peter Kerry.
2: Don Camillo has been trying for months to raise the money for a community centre, without success. Now Peppone announces that he is building people's palace and he has already raised the money. Don Camillo turns detective - with a little supernatural prompting.
Don Camillo Alun Armstrong
Producers Chris Wallis and Jill Waters

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Guareschi
Unknown:
Peter Kerry.
Unknown:
Don Camillo
Producers:
Chris Wallis
Producers:
Jill Waters
God:
Joss Ackland
Bishop:
John Moffatt
Peppone:
Sean Prendergast
Captain Mancini:
Ben Crowe
Neri/Paulo:
Harry Myers
Smilzo:
David Thorpe

With Nick Clarke.

1.30 Counterpoint
The eighth heat of the quiz that covers all types of music, from classical to jazz and showtunes to pop. With chairman Ned Sherrin.

Contributors

Presenter (The World at One):
Nick Clarke
Chairman (Counterpoint):
Ned Sherrin
Producer (Counterpoint):
Dawn Ellis

EM Delafield 's account of her mission to write a humorous book in thirties Russia is adapted by Gwyneth Powell. The highlight of the trip, seen through the eyes of a middle-class Englishwoman, was the time she spent on a small commune living and workingwith the comrades: Starring Gwyneth Powell , Anna Quayle , Kerry Shale , Katherine Canter , Rachel Atkins and Bettina Weichert. Director Richard Wortley (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Em Delafield
Adapted By:
Gwyneth Powell.
Unknown:
Gwyneth Powell
Unknown:
Anna Quayle
Unknown:
Kerry Shale
Unknown:
Katherine Canter
Unknown:
Rachel Atkins
Unknown:
Bettina Weichert.
Director:
Richard Wortley

Five stories exploring family relationships from a variety of perspectives. 1: The Red Carby Edward James, read by Christopher Timothy. A young boy is evacuated to the countryside during the Second World War. He quickly discovers life with "auntie" to be as devastating as London's Blitz. Producer Keith Slade

Contributors

Unknown:
Carby Edward
Read By:
Christopher Timothy.
Producer:
Keith Slade

In five programmes Ben Silburn takes journeys with a difference. He starts byfollowing a trail of molten rocks as they rise from deep inside the Earth to eru pt out of a volcano with the power to devastate continents. Producer Paul Arnold (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Silburn
Producer:
Paul Arnold

For two decades Swedish agriculture has pursued a policy of high animal welfare standards and sustainable production. As the lessons from BSE and foot-and-mouth disease sink in, Sheila Dillon asks if we can learn from their example. Extended repeat from yesterday 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Dillon

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Muriel Gray
Producer:
Lindsay Leonard

This week Bill Oddie and Claire Gorham are among the guests joining Nigel Rees to exchange quotations and anecdotes. Reader Patricia Hughes. Producer Carol Smith. Repeated Sunday 12.04pm E-MAIL: quote.unquote@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Bill Oddie
Unknown:
Claire Gorham
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Reader:
Patricia Hughes.
Producer:
Carol Smith.

The diaries of Yelena Bulgakova, abridged in five parts by D.J. Britton from the collection edited by J.A.E. Curtis.

When Yelena became the third wife of Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita, he asked her to keep an account of their life in thirties Moscow, since his own diary had been burnt by the KGB.
(Repeated from 10.45am)

Contributors

Author:
Yelena Bulgakova
Abridged by:
D.J. Britton
From the collection edited by:
J.A.E. Curtis
Director:
Alison Hindell
Yelena:
Susanne Burden
Mikhail:
Jonathan Tafler
Narrator:
Sue Jones Davies

A portrait of life among Greek and Turkish Cypriots in north London, communities still divided in Cyprus by a 66-mile UN-patrolled "green line", but who live and work together along Green
Lanes, a road which runs for nine miles through Harringay. Nigel Wrench looks at how tensions 2,000 miles away play out along this colourful north-London thoroughfare that stretches from Enfield to Islington. Producer David Prosser

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Wrench
Producer:
David Prosser

Peru is a nation consumed by distrust and disgust. Nick Caistor travels to Lima ahead of elections in April and investigates the legacy of the man at the heart of a massive corruption scandal - ex-President Fujimori's former spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, and his meticulous video-taped record of hundreds of dirty deals with the Peruvian political elite.
(Repeated from Thursday)

Contributors

Reporter:
Nick Caistor

The conclusion of six journeys through European countries exploring the wildlife and the people working to conserve European diversity.
The Wolves of Transylvania. Following wolf tracks in the snow in the shadow of Dracula's castle,
Lionel Kelleway asks how 2,500 wolves survive in Romania when the rest of Europe has all but wiped them out.
Producer Grant Sonnex. E-MAIL: nature@bbc.co.uk
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co. uk/nature/animals/bbc/wild_europe

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
Grant Sonnex.

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