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An early morning journey through the British countryside. Including 6.40 Farming Today: This Week Radio 4's team of experts assess the week's developments in the foot-and-mouth crisis and examine the implications for the British countryside. Producers Alasdair Cross and Steve Peacock
Shortened repeat of Open Country Thursday 1.30pm

Contributors

Producers:
Alasdair Cross
Producers:
Steve Peacock

With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day The Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths.
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor.
Unknown:
Dr Leslie Griffiths.

The best travellers' tales, anecdotes and surprises, presented by Arthur Smith. Producer Cathie Mahoney. PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/excessbaggage E-MAIL: excessbaggage@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Presented By:
Arthur Smith.
Producer:
Cathie Mahoney.

James Bond was born in the Cold War, but all the old enemies have since disappeared. Historian Jeremy Black , with help from KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky and spy writer Nigel West , investigates the impact and the politics of Bond. Producer Miles Warde (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
James Bond
Unknown:
Jeremy Black
Unknown:
Oleg Gordievsky
Unknown:
Nigel West
Producer:
Miles Warde

Impartial money advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance, with Paul Lewis. Producer JenniferClarke. Repeated tomorrow 9pm
Paul Lewis on children's tax credit: page 15

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Lewis.
Unknown:
Paul Lewis

Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at Dulwich College in London by Simon Hughes , Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesman; Alex Salmond , former leader of the SNP; Clare Short , Secretary of State for
International Development; and David Willetts , shadow Secretary of State for Social Security. Rptd from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Simon Hughes
Unknown:
Alex Salmond
Unknown:
Clare Short
Unknown:
David Willetts

In Michael Butt 'sdrama it is the time of yearwhen marmalade makers' minds turn to thoughts of Seville oranges. But this is no ordinary marmalade-making session. As Agnes reviews the recipes her children have given her, they seem to represent something more than filial duty, but what is it?

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Butt
Agnes:
Barbara Jefford
Max:
Adam Godley
Director:
Claire Grove
Stella:
Sally Dexter
Jane:
Emma Rice

Henry Spencer Ashbee was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman. But, as biographer Ian Gibson discovers, his well-upholstered chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: Europe's largest collection of erotica and pornography, thousands of volumes strong. Ashbee's books and diaries reveal a man whose secret life typifies his age in all its curiosity, repression and subverted desire. Producer Jane Greenwood

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Spencer Ashbee
Unknown:
Ian Gibson
Producer:
Jane Greenwood

This week film director Alex Cox talks about Mexican cinema as the controversial Amores Perros is released in the UK. Plus there is a report from the Cannes Rim Festival. Presented by Andrew Collins. Producer Stephen Hughes

Contributors

Talks:
Alex Cox
Unknown:
Amores Perros
Presented By:
Andrew Collins.
Producer:
Stephen Hughes

The cultural highlights of the week, including a new exhibition of photographs by Helmut Newton , one of the most challenging image makers to have influenced our perception of beauty, fame and glamour. Presented by Tom Sutcliffe. Producer Erika Wright

Contributors

Unknown:
Helmut Newton
Presented By:
Tom Sutcliffe.
Producer:
Erika Wright

Robert Rietti , actor, author, broadcaster and maestro of the art of film dubbing, was born in London in 1923 to a Jewish-Italian family. Following Italy's entry into the Second World War on Germany's side, Italian nationals living in Britain were interned on the Isle of Man, Rietti'sfather among them. As they were
British born, Rietti and his brotherwere detained in a camp at Ascot. Rietti was befriended by an Irishman, an enthusiastic Nazi-lover who was unaware that his new friend was Jewish. Once he learned this, his reaction was so disturbing that Rietti worried for years and was later prompted to write his 16 Letters to a Friend. Producer Toby Horton. Continued tomorrow 5.40pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Rietti
Producer:
Toby Horton.

Wartime Britain is remembered for bombs, blackouts and hardship. But it was also a time when people from all social classes heard classical music forthe first time - in air-raid shelters, art galleries and churches, with musicians performing Beethoven and Brahms as German bombers flew overhead and the air-raid sirens sounded. Humphrey Carpenter tells the story of the vital role classical music played in people's lives during this turbulent time.
Producer Nadine Welter

Contributors

Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter

Charles Dickens's masterpiece of social satire and imprisonment is dramatised in five parts by Doug Lucie.
3: Mr Pancks has been moleing and has made discoveries about the Dorrit family, but Arthur still has not solved his family's secret.
Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Writer:
Charles Dickens
Writer:
Doug Lucie
Charles Dickens:
Ian McKellen
Arthur Clennam:
Julian Wadham
Mrs Clennam:
Margaret Tyzack
William Dorrit:
John Wood
Amy Dorrit:
Jasmine Hyde
Fanny Dorrit:
Indira Varma

A selection of requests on the theme of last
Sunday's Dawn Chorus Day, presented by Frank Delaney. Readers Sally Cookson , Andrew Hilton ,
Fiona Shaw and Stephen Thorne. Repeatedfrom Sunday

Contributors

Presented By:
Frank Delaney.
Readers:
Sally Cookson
Readers:
Andrew Hilton
Readers:
Fiona Shaw
Readers:
Stephen Thorne.

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