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An appeal on behalf of a charity seeking to enable survivors of torture and organised violence to engage in a healing process to assert their own human dignity and worth.
Producer Laurence Grissell. DONATIONS: Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. [address removed]CREDIT CARDS: Freephone [number removed]. Repeated at 9. 25pm and Thursday 3. 27pm

Contributors

Producer:
Laurence Grissell.

From the Memorial Chapel at the University of Glasgow, marking the university's 550th year.
With the Very Rev Andrew McLellan and the Rev Stuart MacQuarrie , the Chancellor Sir William Kerr Fraser , Dr Mona Siddiqui of the Centre for Islamic Studies and the University Chapel Choir directed by Giles Brightwell.
Producer Mo McCullough. Organist Professor John Butt E-MAIL: sunday.worship@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McLellan
Unknown:
Stuart MacQuarrie
Unknown:
Sir William Kerr Fraser
Unknown:
Dr Mona Siddiqui
Directed By:
Giles Brightwell.
Organist:
Mo McCullough.
Organist:
Professor John Butt

The human brain is 60 per cent fat and needs essential fats to operate. What does this tell us about the origins of the human race, and what effect has our changing diet had on our mental health? Sheila Dillon investigates.
Producer Rebecca Wells. Extended repeat tomorrow 4pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Dillon
Producer:
Rebecca Wells.

Charles Wheeler presents five programmes looking at the history and impact of national service.
3: From Shouting to Shooting. National servicemen are given their first postings at home and abroad. Producer David Prest (R)
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: The Peacetime Conscripts is available on audio cassette at all good retailers and www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Wheeler
Producer:
David Prest

Roy Lancaster , Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew answer some of the questions posed by gardeners from Kent. The team also choose trees forthe GQT garden at Sparsholt College, Hampshire. The chairman is Eric Robson.
Producer Trevor Taylor.

Contributors

Unknown:
Roy Lancaster
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Eric Robson.
Producer:
Trevor Taylor.

A new five-part series in which Chris Baines looks at domestic gardens from the point of view of wildlife and discovers gardeners are recreating habitats for an increasing number of animals.
1: A Glade in the Urban Forest. Baines meets the ultimate woodland edge dweller, the hedgehog. Producer Brett Westwood. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/nature Taking a walk on the wild side: page 20

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Baines
Producer:
Brett Westwood.

In Martyn Wade 's dramatisation of one of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's most original short stories, a dull middle-aged man whose life has been monotonously ordinary foryears devises a plot to leave home temporarily and observe the effect on his wife from a flat opposite.
But he stays away much longerthan expected and it becomes more and more difficult to return.
Director Cherry Cookson (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Martyn Wade
Unknown:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Wakefield:
David Haig
Hawthorne:
John Rowe
Mrs Wakefield:
Richenda Carey
Ferris:
Jonathan Keeble
Mrs Brand:
Jennie Stoller
Dr Ellison:
Gordon Reid

Charlie Lee-Potter looks at what's happening in the world of books and Liz Rigbey picks the week's best audio books.
Producer Dymphna Flynn. Repeated Thursday 4pm. November's Bookclub is We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates.

Contributors

Unknown:
Charlie Lee-Potter
Unknown:
Liz Rigbey
Producer:
Dymphna Flynn.
Unknown:
Joyce Carol Oates.

Current affairs documentary series. Financial auditing is a multi-billion pound industry in the UK. Fran Abrams asks how effective the major accountancy companies are in protecting investors and shareholders from fraud and financial mismanagement. Repeated from Tuesday

Last in the series in which Lynne Truss cheerfully confirms the prejudices of those who have never been tempted to attend a great sporting occasion. 3: And They're Off. How sport can be just a tiny bit repetitive. Producer Kate McAII. Repeated on Saturday

Contributors

Producer:
Kate McAii.

Children's magazine. Listeners review the new film Atlantis and Morris Gleitzman talks about his book
Two Weeks with the Queen. Cromartythe cat will be causing his usual mischief and mayhem, and Jan Francis reads the sixth part of The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks. With Matt Smith. Producer Jo Daykin. Series producer Olivia Seligman E-MAIL: gfi@bbc.co.uk. WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/gfi

Contributors

Talks:
Morris Gleitzman
Talks:
Jan Francis
Unknown:
Lynne Reid Banks.
Unknown:
Matt Smith.
Producer:
Jo Daykin.
Producer:
Olivia Seligman

Anna Massey narrates Christopher Lee 's series of the history of Britain. The reader is Robert Powell. Episode 22: 1937 a Coronation as War Looms. Producer Pete Atkin. Revised repeat
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This series is available on a series of individual audio cassettes and compact discs, as well as superb box sets. Two books to accompany the series have been published by BBC Books. www.bbcshop.com. Call [number removed].

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Massey
Unknown:
Christopher Lee
Unknown:
Robert Powell.
Producer:
Pete Atkin.

Including at 10.45 It's a Funny Old World.
Simon Hoggart looks back at his week spent at the seaside with hundreds ofTories at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool. Alongside the fairground rides and the fish and chips he samples the mood underthe new leader lain Duncan Smith and chats to delegates, to MPs and to journalists about the future of the party.
Editor John Evans. It's a Funny Old World: Producers Anne Tyerman and Sarah Harrison. Repeated on Wednesday at 8.45

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Unknown:
Duncan Smith
Editor:
John Evans.
Producers:
Anne Tyerman
Producers:
Sarah Harrison.

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