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With Sue MacGregor and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
7.48 Thought for the Day With Dr Lavinia Byrne.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
James Naughtie.
Unknown:
Dr Lavinia Byrne.

The Privy Council. Clive Anderson is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the role and powers of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which is the highest court of appeal for many Commonwealth countries and UK overseas territories.
Producer Cathy Packe. Executive producer Bruce Hyman Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Anderson
Producer:
Cathy Packe.
Producer:
Bruce Hyman

To tie in with this year's Reith Lectures 2001
(which start tomorrow at 8pm), five programmes in which the over 70s share their experiences of growing older. Inside I'm Still 25
A lack of deadlines, mortgages and hairpins make the seventh age something to celebrate. The over 70s examine the liberating aspects of growing old. Producer Lucy Lunt

Contributors

Producer:
Lucy Lunt

Comedian, actress and author Sandi Toksvig joins Jenni Murray in the studio. Drama: A Child in the Forest by Winifred Foley. Part 2. Drama rptd at 7.45pm

Contributors

Presenter:
Jenni Murray
Guest:
Sandi Toksvig
Writer (A Child in the Forest):
Winifred Foley

A series exploring the role that animals play in a variety of medical treatments.

Hospitals all over the UK still regularly use leeches on patients to encourage blood flow after plastic surgery.
Dr Michael O'Donnell discovers they are not the only creepy-crawlies that hospitals employ - when presented with a particularly bad wound that needs cleaning, doctors now increasingly call Upon maggots.

Contributors

Presenter:
Dr Michael O'Donnell
Producer:
Jeremy Grange

Sandi Toksvig presents a history of television's love affair with the game-show hostess, looking at how the role developed over the years and women's place in television game and quiz shows during the 21st Century.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sandi Toksvig
Producer:
Penny Arnold

With Nick Clarke.

1.30 Howling at the Moon
The late eccentric blind composer and poet Moondog, alias Louis Thomas Hardin, was a regular fixture on Manhattan's streets in the sixties and seventies. Often dressed as a Viking, he influenced many of his contemporary artists. Today his work remains little known. This is the remarkable tale of an extraordinary man.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Clarke.
Unknown:
Louis Thomas Hardin
Producer:
Neil George

London, October 1949. Angela Wynter stars as fashion designer Jean Edwards , a Jamaican woman who, after a year developing her portfolio and trying to win interest from the London fashion houses, is close to realisingthat she must contemplate a very different future. with Janice Acquah , Burt Caesar , Becky Hindley. Phil Nice and Catherine Terris. Director Alby James (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Wynter
Designer:
Jean Edwards
Unknown:
Janice Acquah
Unknown:
Burt Caesar
Unknown:
Becky Hindley.
Unknown:
Catherine Terris.
Director:
Alby James
Jean:
Angela Wynter
LD:
Josette Bushell-Mingo
Arnold:
David Yip

2: A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional
English. Eric Partridge spent his life collecting the oddities of spoken English. He first published his classic dictionary in 1937, but was still revising it at the time of his death over 40 years later. For details see yesterday (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Partridge

Film producer Kevin Loader and writer
Paul Morely discuss three favourite paperbacks with presenter Louise Doughty.
Producer Paul Dodgson. Repeated Sunday llpm

Contributors

Producer:
Kevin Loader
Unknown:
Paul Morely
Presenter:
Louise Doughty.
Producer:
Paul Dodgson.

An examination of the achievements to date of the Disability Rights Commission which was set up a year ago. Does this much-hailed body show signs of becoming a genuine force in the land, with enough legal clout to enforce equal rights for people with disabilities, orwill it prove a mere bureaucratic sop designed to keep the disability rights lobby quiet? Presented by Peter White. Producer Peter Griffiths. Repeated Sunday 5pm

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter White.
Producer:
Peter Griffiths.

Many elderly patients in hospital have "do not resuscitate" written on their notes, which means that doctors will not attempt to revive them if the patient has a cardiac arrest. But more than two thirds of these patients are not involved in making the decision. Is this a sign of ageism at work in the NHS or are doctors simply trying to save their patients from an undignified death? In the first of a new series, Dr Graham Easton hosts a debate with doctors and patients.
Producer Paula McGrath. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Graham Easton
Producer:
Paula McGrath.

Bill Dare'sfour-part comedy. 1: If You Scratch My Back. Kenny sees joining a band as his only chance to give up teaching but when a record executive offers him a contract, it turns out that it is not really his music she is interested in. Starring Stephen Tompkinson , Clive Rowe , Meera Syal , Nicola Walker and Adrian Scarborough.
Musical director David Firman. Producer Gareth Edwards (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Stephen Tompkinson
Unknown:
Clive Rowe
Unknown:
Meera Syal
Unknown:
Nicola Walker
Unknown:
Adrian Scarborough.
Director:
David Firman.
Producer:
Gareth Edwards

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