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Lively and topical interviews and discussion from a woman's point of view, presented by Jenni Murray. Drama: A Child in the Forest by Winifred Foley. Part 6 Of 10. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Contributors

Presented By:
Jenni Murray.
Unknown:
Winifred Foley.

Professor David Cesarani concludes his investigation of mass detention during wartime. He joins a reunion of some of the 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans incarcerated in the US during the Second World War. Although most were American citizens, they were deprived of their rights and held in appalling conditions. Producer Hugh Levinson (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor David Cesarani
Producer:
Hugh Levinson

The concluding episode of Giovanni Guareschi 's humorous tales about a colourful parish priest in a northern Italian village, dramatised by Peter Kerry. The church centre and the People's Palace have been completed, and are due to be opened on the same day - but the Bishop ccinnot be in two places at once. Then there is the football match to consider. Church and state rivalry come to a head.
Producers Chris Wallis and Jill Waters

Contributors

Unknown:
Giovanni Guareschi
Dramatised By:
Peter Kerry.
Producers:
Chris Wallis
Producers:
Jill Waters
Don Camillo:
Alun Armstrong
God:
Joss Ackland
Bishop:
John Moffatt
Peppone:
Sean Prendergast
Mancini:
Ben Crowe
Castelino:
Colin MacLachlan
MrsCastelino:
Eve Karpf
Smilzo:
David Thorpe
Brusco:
Harry Myers

In Bathsheba Doran 's new drama a mother visits her son and his flatmate on the anniversary of his father's death. Her appearance sets off a hilarious and ultimately moving look at religious conviction, the environment, smoking, squirrels and smoking squirrels.
Director Toby Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Bathsheba Doran
Director:
Toby Smith
Miriam:
Rachel Atkins
Ric:
David ,mitchell
Chris:
Darren Boyd
Richard Michael:
Brett Drennan
Alan:
Nathaniel Tapley

Four readings celebrating the experiences of childhood. 1: Oleander, Jacaranda, read by Patience Tomlinson. An extract from Penelope
Lively's memoir of growing up in Egypt. The much-loved author looks back with wonder on her seven-year-old self. Abridged and produced by Jill Waters

Contributors

Produced By:
Jill Waters

Birmingham's jewellery quarter is unique in Europe; there are over 1,200 businesses employing more than 11,500 people in what is barely more than a square mile just north of the city centre. In four programmes historian
Carl Chinn meets some of the people who work in the quarter. Producer David Corser

Contributors

Unknown:
Carl Chinn
Producer:
David Corser

Don Black, Claire Caiman , Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Pam Rhodes are the guests joining Nigel Rees atWaterstone's, Piccadilly to exchange quotations and anecdotes. ReaderWilliam Franklyn. Producer Carol Smith. Repeated Sunday 12.04pm E-MAIL: quote.unquote@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Claire Caiman
Unknown:
Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Unknown:
Pam Rhodes
Unknown:
Readerwilliam Franklyn.
Producer:
Carol Smith.

Winifred Foley 's vivid recollection of growing up in the remote Forest of Dean in the twenties is dramatised in ten parts by David Goodland.
6: During the 1926 coal strike Poll is taken ill.
Produced and directed by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Winifred Foley
Unknown:
David Goodland.
Directed By:
Viv Beeby
Directed By:
Jeremy Howe
Mam:
Suzanna Hamilton
Dad:
Robert Glenister
Poll:
Anna Townsend
Goggy:
Louis Smith
Little Charlie:
Joshua Chopping
Aunt Lizzie:
Elizabeth Kelly
Mrs Protheroe:
Kim Hicks
Chairman:
Paul Dodgson

Kenya's Floral Revolution.
Flowers have become hot property in Kenya, especially on the shores of Lake Naivasha, where the fields and greenhouses full of roses destined for European supermarkets line the shores of the lake. Rosie Goldsmith hears about this flourishing economic success story that has brought much needed revenue to Kenya's ailing economy and jobs to local people. But environmentalists argue that the lake's fragile fresh-water ecology is under threat by water being drawn from the lake to irrigate the flowers and by pesticides seeping into the soil and water. Repeated from Thursday

A two-part look at people's experiences of being alone either through choice or circumstances beyond their control. Choosing to Be Alone In this first programme Peter France talks to people who have chosen a solitary life - monks, hermits, people who make a deliberate choice to spend some or part of their lives alone.
Aloneness, as distinct from loneliness, can bring great benefits to the creative and religious sides of life as well as being a time of healing from tragedy. Producer Mary Colwell (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Mary Colwell

Pat Barker 's novel about children who kill, about guilt, punishment and the border between good and evil, is read in ten parts by Douglas Hodge and abridged by Doreen Estall. i 6: Tom goes in search of answers at Long Garth - the secure unit where he spent his adolescence. Producer Di Speirs

Contributors

Unknown:
Pat Barker
Unknown:
Douglas Hodge
Abridged By:
Doreen Estall.
Producer:
Di Speirs

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