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Presented by Alistair Cooke. Repeated from yesterday.

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Presenter:
Alistair Cooke

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

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Unknown:
John Peei
Producer:
Alison Hughes.
Unknown:
John Peel

The second of two programmes in which
Felicity Finch , who plays Ruth in The Archers, investigates foreign soap operas. The problems and preoccupations of Cambodia are reflected in its fledgling soap opera, Lotus on Muddy Lake. It is mainly concerned with relationships, a touching irony in a country where so many relationships were brought to such a brutal end during the Pol Pot regime. Producer Merilyn Harris (R)

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Unknown:
Felicity Finch
Unknown:
Muddy Lake.
Unknown:
Pol Pot
Producer:
Merilyn Harris

Simon Hoggart hosts the topical panel game with Alan Coren , Rebecca Front, Jeremy Hardy and Francis Wheen. Repeated from yesterday
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Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy
Unknown:
Francis Wheen.
Unknown:
Simon Hoggart

Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners calls and emails in response to last night's Any Questions ? Phone on 08 [number removed], or e-mail any.answers@bbc.CO.Uk. Producer Lisa Jenkinson

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producer:
Lisa Jenkinson

A series of three European detective dramas begins with a thriller by the French novelist Leo Malet , dramatised by Chris Dolan. In 1942, Parisian private eye Nestor Burma - the French Philip Marlowe - investigates a trail of murder that leads to an address that doesn't exist.
Director Bruce Young

Contributors

Writer:
Leo Malet
Dramatised By:
Chris Dolan
Director:
Bruce Young
Burma:
Alexander Morton
Covet:
Thomas Arnold
Montbrison:
Nigel Anthony
Fournier:
Phillip Joseph
Helene:
Caroline Loncq
Louis:
David Bannerman
Georg:
Daniel Philpott
Bob:
Carl Prekopp

At the height of the Third Reich, thousands of teenagers attempted to shrug off the brown-shirted embrace of Hitler Youth and Nazi propaganda. Branded as criminals and traitors theyfaced imprisonment or execution. Michael Rosen tells the story of those youngsters who defied the Fatherland. Producer Mark Burman

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Unknown:
Michael Rosen
Producer:
Mark Burman

Andrew Collins presents the weekly guide to the film world. This week a look at psychoanalysis and cinema, including an interview with Italian director Bernardo BertOluCCi. Producer Stephen Hughes

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Collins
Director:
Bernardo Bertolucci.
Producer:
Stephen Hughes

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests cast a critical eye over the week's cultural events, visiting the inaugural exhibition of the new extension to London's Tate Britain gallery, Exposed: the Victorian Nude, and George S Kaufman and Edna Ferber 's play The
Royal Family, starring Judy Dench , Harriet Walter and Peter Bowles at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London. Producer Julian May

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Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Unknown:
George S Kaufman
Unknown:
Edna Ferber
Unknown:
Judy Dench
Unknown:
Harriet Walter
Unknown:
Peter Bowles

The second of three programmes in which novelists introduce the life and work of an invented author and explain why they wish such a writer had really existed. The series reflects the writers' interest in literary hoaxes and jokes. This week, Jim Crace asks who is the author who is always in the news, but whose work can't be found on bookshop or library Shelves? Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Crace

Graham Greene 's novel is dramatised in two parts by John Harvey. 2: When Scobie falls in love he finds himself caught in a web of deceit and corruption from which there appears no escape.
Producer/Director Sally Avens. Original music by Dominic Fitzgerald

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Greene
Unknown:
John Harvey.
Director:
Sally Avens.
Music By:
Dominic Fitzgerald
Scobie:
Charles Dance
Louise:
Harriet Walter
Wilson:
Tom Hollander
Helen:
Abigail Docherty
Yusef:
Nadim Sawalha
Father Rank:
Des McAleer
Doctor:
Ray Lonnen
Ali:
Freddie Annobil
Commissioner:
Sean Baker
Harris:
Jonathan Keeble
Bagster:
Ewan Bailey
Yusef's boy:
Charlie Toko

Michael Buerk returns with a new series of live debates in which Roger Scruton , Claire Fox , Stephen Rose and Ian Hargreaves cross- examine
"witnesses" with different but passionate views on one of the week's moral dilemmas. Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Roger Scruton
Unknown:
Claire Fox
Unknown:
Stephen Rose
Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves

A four-part series with Peggy Reynolds. 3: Musee des BeauxArts by WH Auden. Exploringthe impact and strikingly contemporary resonance of Auden's short masterpiece about a Bruegel painting, human suffering and the eruption of tragedy into the everyday. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Reynolds.

In our collective imagination, Hadrian's Wall divides England and Scotland. In this series, five poets - two from south of the wall, three from the north - visit Hadrian's Wall and write a poem about the experience. 5: Kathleen Jamie lives in Fife. Can
Hadrian's Wall be tamed once and for all, or is it an itch that needs to be scratched? (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Tim Dee

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