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3: MikeTill's ship, HMS Sheffield, was four days from home when it changed direction andjoined the British Task Force. Michael Nicholson talks to his wife Audrey and theirthree daughters, and hears how their life was changed for ever by an Exocet missile. Stephen Tompkinson reads Mike Till 's letters. Producer Sarah Taylor

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Nicholson
Unknown:
Stephen Tompkinson
Unknown:
Mike Till
Producer:
Sarah Taylor

A new series of the multi award-winning impressions programme, with Kevin Connelly , Jon Culshaw , Mark PerryandJan Ravens. Repeated from Friday
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: Two series of Dead Ringers are available on audio cassette and compact disc at good retail outlets or www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Kevin Connelly
Unknown:
Jon Culshaw
Unknown:
Mark Perryandjan Ravens.

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the debate from the Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. The panel includes Baroness Williams, Tony Wright, Damien Green and Daffyd Wigley.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Tony Wright
Unknown:
Damien Green
Unknown:
Daffyd Wigley

By Terence Rattigan.
A radio version of the classic stage play, set in the fifties. A group of residents at a small Bournemouth hotel discover one of them is harbouring a devastating secret.

Contributors

Author:
Terence Rattigan
Director:
Sally Avens
Major Pollock:
Benjamin Whitrow
Mrs Railton-Bell:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Sibyl:
Amanda Root
Lady Matheson:
Frances White
Mr Fowler:
Peter Sallis
Miss Cooper:
Carolyn Pickles
Chartes Stratton:
Mark Umbers
Jean Stratton:
Pandora Clifford
Miss Meacham:
Marlene Sidaway
Doreen:
Helen Longworth

When three British officers went to Tbilisi in Georgia to set up a British military mission in 1941, they caused ripples of excitement - and not just in the Soviet Secret Service. The officers also lifted the gloom of the early war years for three young Georgian women. Faynia Williams revisits Georgia and Moscow to tell their fascinating stories, interwoven with the poignant letters of separation and love, and memories of those who played a part in this romantic web.

Contributors

Presenter:
Faynia Williams
Producer:
Richard Bannerman

Toni Colette , the star of Muriel's Wedding, talks to Andrew Collins about her role in the film version of Nick Hornby 's best-selling novel, About a Boy, also starring Hugh Grant. Producer Stephen Hughes

Contributors

Unknown:
Toni Colette
Unknown:
Andrew Collins
Unknown:
Nick Hornby
Unknown:
Hugh Grant.
Producer:
Stephen Hughes

Hitler always maintained that Germany would never be invaded but, as the Soviet army advanced on Berlin, the end was in sight for the Third Reich.
This dramatic battle is the focus of Antony Beevor's new book Berlin: the Downfall, 1945, which Tom Sutcliffe and his guests will be discussing. Plus the stage version of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Producer Jerome Weatherald

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

By Emile Zola. Dramatised in two episodes by Peter Tegel. Translated by George Holden.
2: To Berlin! Nana discovers the power of her sexuality and conquers Paris. She dominates the men who pursue her and enslaves the wealthy and powerful Count Muffat, but loses control of her life through her promiscuity. Leaving France for new conquests, she returns just as the country is heading for war with Prussia.
Music by Mike Sykes ; Director Richard Wortley Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Emile Zola.
Unknown:
Peter Tegel.
Translated By:
George Holden.
Music By:
Mike Sykes
Director:
Richard Wortley
Zola:
Conn Redgrave
Nana:
Claire Rushbrook
Count Muffat:
David Collings
Bordenave:
Keith Drinkel
Fauchery:
Jonathan Keeble
Fontan:
Stephen Critchlow
Georges:
Tom Bevan
Zoe:
Rachel Atkins
Satin:
Deborah Berlin
Tatan:
Clare Corbett
Rose:
Alice Arnold
Mme Hugon:
Richenda Carey
Vandeuvres:
Roger May
Phillipe:
Ian Shaw

3: Called to Account. Philosopher Onora O'Neill of Newnham College, Cambridge, delivers the third of this year's Reith Lectures from the Royal Institution, London. From BSE to Alder Hey, from Equitable Life to Enron, in recent years there have been a series of blows to public confidence. So what good, if any, has been done by all the measures designed to improve trust and accountability?
Editor Gwyneth Williams Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Onora O'Neill
Unknown:
Reith Lectures

Live poetry and music from Manchester's hottest arts venue, presented by Lemn Sissay , with Roger McGough , Jackie Kay , and Rommi Smith and her band. Producer Susan Roberts
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: Two volumes of PoetryPtease, featuring a selection of Britain's favourite poems, are available at good retail outlets or www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Lemn Sissay
Unknown:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Jackie Kay
Unknown:
Rommi Smith
Producer:
Susan Roberts

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