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A ten-part series of the international current affairs programme.4: New Serbia? A year ago the people of Serbia overthrew Slobodan Milosevic.
Olenka Frenkiel travels to Belgrade to ask what has changed in the lives Of ordinary Serbs. Producer Dinah Lammiman

Contributors

Unknown:
Slobodan Milosevic.
Unknown:
Olenka Frenkiel
Producer:
Dinah Lammiman

Born in colonial Trinidad in 1901, C.L.R. James embraced revolutionary politics, professional sports writing, literary and cultural criticism and produced some of the finest writing of his generation. In his centenary year Linton Kwesi Johnson traces his journey from Trinidad through depression-era Britain and on to America, celebrating James and the growing influence of his thought since his death in Brixton in 1989.

Contributors

Presenter:
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Producer:
Alistair McGhee

The health phone-in with Barbara Myers answers questions on blood pressure, such as whether it's too high ortoo low, what drugs can be prescribed to lower it and the dangers of raised blood pressure.
Producer Andrew Luck-Baker
Phone: [number removed]. Email: Checkup@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Myers
Producer:
Andrew Luck-Baker

Evelyn Glennie appeals on behalf of a charity which provides help, support and advice for those caring for children and adults who have Rett Syndrome
Producer Laurence Grissell. DONATIONS: Rett Syndrome Association UK. [address removed] CREDIT CARDS: Freephone [number removed]. Repeated from Sunday ay 7.55

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Glennie
Producer:
Laurence Grissell.

Five weekday readings of poetry and prose for Remembrance Week dedicated to the memory of those lost in the conflicts of the 20th century.

Taken from "Walking Tall", Simon Weston's vivid account of the Falklands War, this extract deals with the immediate aftermath of the attack on his ship. Read by Matthew Morgan. (For details see Monday)

Contributors

Author:
Simon Weston
Reader:
Matthew Morgan

Science series. Tetris, the simple computer game where you have to fit different shaped and coloured blocks together, is being relaunched for the next generation of game consoles. Quentin Coopertalks to the game's original designer Alexi Pajitnov and neurobiologist Richard Haierwho has studied the brains of Tetris junkies and asks what makes certain computer games so addictive.
Producer Fiona Roberts. E-MAIL: material.world@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Coopertalks
Designer:
Alexi Pajitnov
Unknown:
Richard Haierwho
Producer:
Fiona Roberts.

A new six-part comedy by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie about a middle-aged couple undergoing life changes.

Life for George and Carol was just fine and now that their daughter is married they will have time for themselves again. Carol is looking forward to it being just the two of them. George, however, thinks the time is right to finally be honest with his wife and introduce her to Georgina.

Contributors

Writer:
Jan Etherington
Writer:
Gavin Petrie
Producer:
Maria Esposito
Carol:
Lynda Bellingham
George:
Christopher Ellison
Violet:
Sylvia Syms
Maureen:
Maureen Beattie
Dave:
Mark Powley
Ken:
James Vaughan
Jerry:
Richard Standing

Entering 18 Folgate Street in London's Spitalfields is like stepping back in time. Vicky Licorish takes us on a tour of this extraordinary house created over the last 20 years by artist Dennis Severs , an artist who lived there with no electricity or modern comforts, in much the same way as its inhabitants might have done in the early 18th century. Artists, writers and architectural historiansjoin the tourto reflect on the splendour, eccentricity, and historical importance of the house, its contents and its owner. Producer Jane Greenwood

Contributors

Unknown:
Vicky Licorish
Artist:
Dennis Severs
Producer:
Jane Greenwood

Globalising Gloom. Globalisation faces an army of critics. It's accused of everything from economic exploitation and cultural vandalism to environmental ruin. But how far is its onward march threatened in turbulent international times? Diane Coyle asks whether there could be a revolt against the global system comparable to that of the thirties and whether alternative economic plans like "localisation" amount to anything. ProducerChris Bowlby

Contributors

Unknown:
Diane Coyle

Topical science magazine. Geoff Watts travels to the depths of the world's oceans in search of molecules that could form the basis for new drugs. He asks bioprospector Ray Andersen of the University of British Columbia if the cure for cancer could lie in a sea sponge, orthe answerto motor neurone disease in coral. Producer Alexandra Feacham

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Watts
Unknown:
Ray Andersen
Producer:
Alexandra Feacham

Last in a comedy series by Andrew McGibbon in which John Bird interviews remarkable, deceased people. 4: Anglo-French relations take a surprising turn when Boadicea meets Joan of Arc. With
Fiona Allen and Jon Culshaw.
Producers Robert Chandler and Alison Vernon-Smith

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew McGibbon
Unknown:
John Bird
Unknown:
Fiona Allen
Unknown:
Jon Culshaw.
Producers:
Robert Chandler
Producers:
Alison Vernon-Smith

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