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With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Rev Dr Leslie Gnftitns.
8.45 LW on/y Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Edward Stourton.
Unknown:
Dr Leslie Gnftitns.

By Nicholas Blake. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell. "It'sabout time that squirt Wemyss was suppressea. Pedantic Percy 's little pet isgetting above himself." Nobody liked the headmaster's nephew, but surely no one would actually murder him? no one would actually mure L With boys from Hurstpierpomt College Director jane Morgan

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Blake.
Dramatised By:
Michael Bakewell.
Unknown:
Pedantic Percy
Narrator:
Gerard Murphy
Nigel:
Philip Franks
Michael:
Peter Acre
Percy:
David Colllngs
Hero:
Emma Gregory
Supt Armstrong:
Struan Rodger
Gadsby:
Steve Hodson
Wrench:
Colin Tierney
Sims:
Philip Fox
Tiverton:
Geoffrey Beevers
Griffin:
Jonathan Guy Lewis
Rosa:
Rosanna Mason
Smithers:
Daniel Draper
Stevens:
Edmund Singer-Klngsmlth
Ponsonby:
Patrick Liddicoat

A A magical Indian tale of a myth coming to life. Madhur Jaffreygoes in search of the mystical river Saraswati, which is described in the ancient Hindu scriptures as both a goddess and a life source, yet has never been found. But evidence is now emerging of an enormous prehistoric river that fits all the descriptions and its discovery could benefit millions. Could this be the miracle river? producer Tanya Datta

Contributors

Unknown:
Madhur Jaffreygoes
Producer:
Tanya Datta

With the release of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, a politically correct cartoon about native Americans, Andrew Collins looks at the changing faces of COWboyS and Indians. Producer Stephen Hughes

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Collins
Producer:
Stephen Hughes

He's written 37 novels including Get Shorty and Rum Punch, and his latest, he reckons, is his best yet.
Tom Sutcliffe and guests give their verdict on Elmore Leonard 's Tishomingo Blues, in which a high-diver witnesses a murderfrom his platform 80 feet above his nine-foot tank of water. Plus the rest of the week's cultural highlights. Producer Elizabeth Burke

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Unknown:
Elmore Leonard
Producer:
Elizabeth Burke

The 1950s in America were typically "happy days", when television told Americans that they were clean cut, straight-toothed and upstanding. They were also painful days, when the nascent civil rights movement forced white America to face up to the hypocrisy of racial segregation. Ramond Seitz , former US
Ambassador to the UK, looks back at what sociologists call the last black and white decade. Rptd from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Ramond Seitz

In the autumn of 1972, Idi Amin began the ruthless expulsion of the Ugandan Asians. In just 90 terrifying days an entire community of successful professionals and entrepreneurs was uprooted and turned into penniless refugees. Thirty thousand came to Britain where, despite domestic opposition, they thrived socially and economically, and are often praised as Britain's "model minority". Thirty years on, Nand Sail unearths their stories of fear, loss and determination.

Contributors

Presenter:
Nand Sail
Producer:
Hugh Levinson

The conclusion of James Jones's bestselling novel set around the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. Adapted by Michael Hastings.
(Repeated from Sunday)

Contributors

Author:
James Jones
Adapted by:
Michael Hastings
Music:
John Tarns
Director:
Bill Bryden
Karen:
Elizabeth McGovern
Sgt Warden:
Ken Cranham
Pte Maggio:
Kevin McNally
Pte Bloom:
Michael Feast
Robert:
James Callis
Lorene:
Rachel Pickup
Capt Holmes:
Bill Gaunt
Sgt Judson:
Trevor Ray
Jack:
John Tarns
Sgt Stark:
Karl Johnson
MP/Soldier 1:
Aaron Swartz
MP/Soldier 2:
Sam Douglas

The last of a series of stories prompted by nursery rhymes. 4: The Cave-in Area By Mimi Thebo. Read by Bonnie Hurren. It was frosty, the night the horses came, and no-one could explain why they should appear on that particular night, or even if they came at all; memory, like the mist on the mulberry bush, is an insubstantial thing. Producer Sara Davies

Contributors

Unknown:
Mimi Thebo.
Read By:
Bonnie Hurren.
Producer:
Sara Davies

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