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This week a look at the sharks of the south coast.
Including 6.40 FarmingToday: This Week Radio 4's team of experts assess the week's developments in the foot-and-mouth crisis. With Miriam O'Reilly. Producers Alasdair Cross and Steve Peacock
Open Country repeated Thursday 1.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Miriam O'Reilly.
Producers:
Alasdair Cross
Producers:
Steve Peacock

With Sue MacGregorand Edward Stourton.
7.20 Yesterday In Parliament
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths.
8.45 Yesterday In Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
MacGregorand Edward Stourton.
Unknown:
Dr Leslie Griffiths.

John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Jacqueline Smith. PHONE: [number removed] WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hometruths
E-MAIL: home.truths@bbc.co.uk. Repeated Monday 11pm John Peel: page 13

Contributors

Unknown:
John Peel
Producer:
Jacqueline Smith.

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.

The topical comedy panel quiz, hosted by Simon Hoggart , with Jeremy Hardy , Fred MacAulay , Linda Smith and Francis Wheen. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy
Unknown:
Fred MacAulay
Unknown:
Linda Smith
Unknown:
Francis Wheen.

Jonathan Dimbleby is joined at St Peter's Church, Kensington, by panellists including former Leader of the Liberal Democrats Paddy Ashdown MP and European Commissioner Chris Patten. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Chris Patten.

Nigel Gearing's modern divine comedy. Haunted by his first wife, Charles escapes on a holiday to Italy. His surroundings are described as Paradise, but he is in Purgatory, sliding towards the Inferno.

Contributors

Writer:
Nigel Gearing
Director:
Claire Grove
Charles:
James Laurenson
Elizabeth:
Sandy Walsh
Bee:
Janice Acquah
Peter:
Sean Baker
Lesley:
Jennie Stoller
Mechanic:
Vincenzo Nicoli

The last of three programmes in which culinary challenges are issued to the armed forces. The Battle of Britain. Dylan Winter challenges the Royal Air Force to prepare the kind of dinner that might have been served to pilots who saved Britain in the summer of 1940. At the catering school at RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire, Flt Lt Dennis Worsfold and Cpl Alan Marsh wrestle with the problems of making chocolate pudding out of potato and powdered egg, and preparing a filling meat pie with only two ounces of stewing steak per person. They are assisted by Air Chief Marshall Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris and the advice of cookery expert Marguerite Patten. Producer Peter Everett

Contributors

Unknown:
Lt Dennis Worsfold
Unknown:
Cpl Alan Marsh
Unknown:
Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris
Unknown:
Marguerite Patten.
Producer:
Peter Everett

The weekly guide to the world of film. As one of Hollywood's biggest flops in years, Town and Country, is finally released in the UK. Andrew Collins examines the real disaster movies, from Cleopatra to Heaven's Gate. Producer Stephen Hughes

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Collins
Producer:
Stephen Hughes

This week's cultural events include Claude Chabrol 's new film Mercipourle Chocolat starring
Isabelle Huppert , and Tom Morris discusses The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski , who has spent over 40 years reporting from Africa. Producer Erika Wright

Contributors

Unknown:
Claude Chabrol
Unknown:
Isabelle Huppert
Unknown:
Tom Morris
Unknown:
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Producer:
Erika Wright

Listening to Lorca. In 1935 Eric Hawkins left his
Spanish studies at Cambridge to enrol on a summer course at the University of Santander. There he met the poet Garcia Lorca , who would shortly be murdered by fascists. It was an encounterwhich made a lasting impression on the young student. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Hawkins
Unknown:
Garcia Lorca

Gone are the days when the fish dock at Lowestoft,
Suffolk, was waist deep in herring. The work was hard and dangerous but a community depended on it. Half a century on the industry has all but disappeared. Ivan Howlett draws on the recorded experiences of generations of fishermen to chart the changing fortunes of a port and a way of life. Producer Nick Patrick

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivan Howlett
Producer:
Nick Patrick

Conclusion of Henry Green's novel, set in England just after the Second World War, dramatised by Peter Tegel. Just a Tale. Young Charley Summers, confused ex-prisoner of war, needs Nancyto resolve his nightmares.
Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Peter Tegel.
Charley:
Jamie Glover
Nancy:
Becky Hindley
Arthur:
Kim Wall
James:
Brian Parr
Mrs Grant:
Eva Stuart
Dot:
Rachel Atkins
Corker Mead:
Alan Lerth
Ridley:
Nicholas Carter
Waitress:
Isabel Scott Plummer

Michael Buerk , David Cook , Claire Fox , Ian Hargreaves and David Starkey cross-examine "witnesses" who hold passionate but conflicting views on a moral dilemma from one of the week's stories.
Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

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

The poems of Joyce Grenfell read by Maureen Lipman in the first of two programmes. Introduced by Janie Hampton. Farewell to Fun. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Grenfell
Read By:
Maureen Lipman
Introduced By:
Janie Hampton.

The second of five short stories from Scotland.
Shakespeare's Hands by Paul R Hyde , read by Michael Mackenzie. A man encounters Shakespeare in a dream and finds him to be a scoundrel, a rogue - and a waiter in Verona. Producer Bruce Young (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul R Hyde
Read By:
Michael MacKenzie.
Producer:
Bruce Young

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