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Selina Scott speaks on behalf of a charity which helps families caring for children with any disability, chronic illness or life-threatening condition.
Producer Jayne Egerton. DONATIONS: Contact a Family. [address removed] CREDIT CARDS:
Freephone [number removed]. Rptd at 9.25pm and Thursday 3.27pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Selina Scott
Producer:
Jayne Egerton.

A service from St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral,
Edinburgh, led by the Rev Kevin Franz and the Very Rev Graham Forbes. With the Cathedral Choir. Master of music Matthew Owens. Assistant organist Simon Nieminski. E-MAIL: sunday.worship@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Kevin Franz
Unknown:
Graham Forbes.
Music:
Matthew Owens.
Organist:
Simon Nieminski.

Capitalists. Former Tory Chancellor Norman Lamont is best remembered as the man who blew L7 billion in one day on Black Wednesday, keeping sterling in the Exchange Rate Mechanism. That may explain why some people loathed him at the time. Here he talks to people who hate capitalism itself, for a variety of reasons: economic, social, moral and environmental. producer RogerChilds (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Norman Lamont

John Cushnie , Bunny Guinness and Roy Lancaster tackle gardening's most frequently asked questions, including a special step-by-step guide to combatting slugs and snails. With chairman Eric Robson. Producer Trevor Taylor. Shortened

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Roy Lancaster
Unknown:
Eric Robson.
Producer:
Trevor Taylor.

The Borage Family. Jekka McVicar explores the world of herbs. This week she visits Cressing Temple in Essex to discuss comfrey, lungwort and borage with naturalist, botanist, author and Herb Society chairman Roger Tabor. Producer Sara Conkey. For recipe information PHONE: [number removed] The benefits of borage: page 17

Contributors

Unknown:
Jekka McVicar
Unknown:
Roger Tabor.
Producer:
Sara Conkey.

Muriel Spark 's witty slice of fifties London is dramatised by Jennifer Phillips. The story concerns the eccentric and engaging occupants of a rooming-house near South Kensington Underground station, and the charming gentlemen and ladies of the shabby but genteel world of publishing. Director Viv Beeby. Repeated Saturday 9pm (R)

Contributors

Author:
Muriel Spark
Dramatised By:
Jennifer Phillips.
Director:
Viv Beeby
Mrs Hawkins:
Cella Imrie
Milly:
Sorcha Cusack
Martin:
Bill Wallis
Wanda:
Joanna Kanska
Isobel:
Lisa Coleman
William:
Mark Straker
Hector:
Philip Manikum
Ian:
Ric Jerrom
Abigail:
Susie Brann
Emma:
Elizabeth Morgan
Greta:
Kim Hicks
Kate:
Sally Cookson

This week writer David Ebershoff talks about The Rose City, his finely crafted stories about young men forging their way in a chaotic world, and Charlie Lee Potter reveals what the books on your shelves say about you. Producer Claire Csonka. Series producer Rona McLean The next Bookclubon 2 September will be The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing. Repeated Thursday 4pm

Contributors

Talks:
David Ebershoff
Unknown:
Charlie Lee Potter
Producer:
Claire Csonka.
Producer:
Rona McLean
Unknown:
Doris Lessing.

Requests for great poems and old favourites, such as If by Rudyard Kipling , and A Martian Sends a Postcard Home by Craig Raine. With Frank Delaney. Producer Frances Byrnes. Repeated Saturday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Unknown:
Craig Raine.
Unknown:
Frank Delaney.
Producer:
Frances Byrnes.

A selection of extracts from BBC radio over the past seven days, presented by Peter Donaldson. Editor Richard Bannerman. PHONE: [number removed] FAX: [number removed]. E-MAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw

Contributors

Presented By:
Peter Donaldson.
Editor:
Richard Bannerman.

The children's programme looks at the latest creation of author and illustrator Raymond Briggs -Ug, the story of a Stone Age boy genius. And
Jonathan Miller continues reading Emil and the Detectives. Presented by Matt Smith.
Producer Jo Daykin. Series producer Olivia Seligman E-MAIL: gfi@>bbc.co.uk. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/gfi

Contributors

Unknown:
Raymond Briggs
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Presented By:
Matt Smith.
Producer:
Jo Daykin.
Producer:
Olivia Seligman

From Berlin Wall to Great Wall? Friction persists between the US and China, while Washington tests a missile shield and prepares to resume nuclear arms talks with Moscow. Quentin Peel asks whetherthe US is substituting a new giant enemy for an old one. Repeated from Thursday

The politics of the next seven days, with Jonathan Beale. Including at 10.45 Palace of Varieties. Professor David Cannadine continues his exploration of the Palace of Westminster. Editor John Evans. Producer Susan Marling

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Beale.
Unknown:
Professor David Cannadine
Editor:
John Evans.
Producer:
Susan Marling

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