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More news and events from the British countryside. Including 6.40 FarmingToday: This Week Radio 4's team of experts assess the week's developments in the foot-and-mouth crisis. With Anna Hill. Producers Adrian Holloway and Steve Peacock

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Hill.
Producers:
Adrian Holloway
Producers:
Steve Peacock

John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Paula McGinley. PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hometruths
E-MAIL: home.truths@bbc.co.uk.
John Peel : page 11

Contributors

Unknown:
John Peel
Producer:
Paula McGinley.
Unknown:
John Peel

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

Contributors

Presented By:
Arthur Smith.
Producer:
Eleanor Garland.

A look at the impact of thatgirls' school StTrinian's with the help of a brengun, a rack, an illegal still and what no respectable girl should be without - dynamite! With Annabel Giles. Producer Jayne Gibson (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Annabel Giles.
Producer:
Jayne Gibson

Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at Merton College in Surrey by Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell; Home Secretary Jack Straw; shadow Home Secretary Ann Widdecombe; and former Leader of Plaid Cymru Daffyd Wigley.
(Repeated from yesterday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Panellist:
Menzies Campbell
Panellist:
Jack Straw
Panellist:
Ann Widdecombe
Panellist:
Daffyd Wigley

A poignant and romantic comedy dramatised by Laurie Graham from her own book. It is 1963 and the first figs and avocado pears are appearing in the shops.

Ronnie Glover, husband and father, painter and decorator, is about to experience a taste of the Permissive society.

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Laurie Graham
Director:
Viv Beeby
Ronnie:
Michael Fenton Stevens
Eileen:
Janine Duvitski
Susan:
Jemma McAlear
Jack:
Roberta Taylor
Vic:
Chris Donnelly
Pop:
David Collins

Three programmes in which culinary challenges are issued to the armed forces. Waterloo This week Dylan Winter challenges the Armyto recreate a dinner that could have been served to the soldiers who beat Napoleon. With advice from historians Peter Brears , Ivan Day , Alicia Robinson and Sir Roy Strong , Sergeants Billy Barrie and Dominic Rogerson attempt to prepare an authentic 1815 meal. But will it be battlefield stew for the rankers or a full-scale officers' banquet? Producer Peter Everett

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Brears
Unknown:
Ivan Day
Unknown:
Alicia Robinson
Unknown:
Sir Roy Strong
Unknown:
Billy Barrie
Unknown:
Dominic Rogerson
Producer:
Peter Everett

This week a review of this summer's blockbuster,
Pearl Harbor, set in 1941. At a cost of$135 million, it boasts the biggest budget ever to get a green light. Plus a review of Closerto Heaven, the new musical from Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. With Tom Sutcliffe and guests. Producer Erika Wright

Contributors

Unknown:
Neil Tennant
Unknown:
Chris Lowe.
Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Producer:
Erika Wright

The Journey Begins. Pioneer of language teaching, Professor Eric Hawkins recounts how his "journey into language" began - at primary school in twenties Liverpool, with the help of a six-penny pocket mirror from Woolworths and the redoubtable Miss Makins.
Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor Eric Hawkins

An exploration of a lifetime of keep-fit, from the primary school spins and stretches of Music and Movementto the young-at-heart rigours of the over 60s, presented by Simon Fanshawe. "Even today the smell of plimsoll takes me back to those school changing rooms and that scary feeling running down myspine." Producer Sean Walsh

Contributors

Presented By:
Simon Fanshawe.
Producer:
Sean Walsh

Henry Green 's novel, set in England just afterthe Second World War, is dramatised in two parts by Peter Tegel. 1: The Colour of Her Hair. 1944.
Confused Charley Summers, back from a prisoner-of-war camp, is haunted by his former sweetheart, Rose. He cannot grasp the fact that she is dead. With Jamie Glover , Becky Hinley and Kim Wall. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Green
Unknown:
Peter Tegel.
Unknown:
Jamie Glover
Unknown:
Becky Hinley
Unknown:
Kim Wall.

Michael Buerk introduces a special edition of the programme live from the Hay Book Festival in Hay-on-Wye. In front of an invited audience, David Cook , Claire Fox , Ian Hargreaves and David Starkey cross-examine "witnesses" who hold passionate but conflicting views on an issue of public concern. Shortened repeat from Wednesday

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
David Cook
Unknown:
Claire Fox
Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves
Unknown:
David Starkey

A broadcast from the stage of the Alhambra Studio theatre in Bradford, where Frank Delaney is joined by readers Gerard Benson , Carole Boyd and Michael Elwyn to present requests for favourite poems on a musical theme. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Frank Delaney
Readers:
Gerard Benson
Readers:
Carole Boyd
Readers:
Michael Elwyn

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