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With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Professor Russell Stannard.
8.45 LW on/yYesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Sarah Montague.
Unknown:
Professor Russell Stannard.

John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer John Leagas Shortened 11pm
PHONE: [number removed] E-MAIL: home.truths@bbc.co.uk John Peel on memory loss: page 16

Contributors

Unknown:
John Peel
Producer:
John Leagas Shortened
Unknown:
John Peel

Nick Clarke chairs the debate from Berwick St John in Dorset with a panel including Conservative MP for Maidenhead Theresa May, The Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens , Labour peer Lord Williams of Mostyn and the Liberal Democrat Spokesperson on culture, media and sport, Nick Harvey.

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Peter Hitchens
Unknown:
Nick Harvey

A romantic comedy with clues by Jim Eldridge.
Crossword demon Stephen Cross from Bournemouth, now in partnership with feisty Penny Harrison, uses her wiles and passion for local history and his talents for solving the unsolveable to unravel a fine-art mystery.
Director Marilyn Imrie

Contributors

Written By:
Jim Eldridge.
Director:
Marilyn Imrie
Penny:
Wendy Craig
Stephen:
Geoffrey Palmer
Terry:
Bruce Alexander
John:
John Rowe
Edward:
Nicky Henson
Laura:
Samantha Bond
Susan:
Patience Tomlinson
Jake:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Kerry:
Alison Pettitt

Eva Peron died 50 years ago this month. Since her death, she has become more famous than ever. Joss Ackland , who played Juan Peron in the original stage musical, examines "Evita's" legacy and influence with particular reference to the current economic crisis in Argentina. The programme includes interviews with her living relatives and with Peronist politicians who worked with her. Producer Laura Parfitt

Contributors

Unknown:
Eva Peron
Unknown:
Joss Ackland
Unknown:
Juan Peron
Producer:
Laura Parfitt

It cost L46 million, has five vast art spaces, features a 15 metre mock Tyne Bridge made from Meccano and an artist with a loaf of bread tied to his face. Tom Sutcliffe and guests comment on Baltic,
Gateshead's new centre for contemporary art. Plus the rest of the week's cultural highlights. Producer Jerome Weatherald

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

Three illustrated talks about bereavement and coming to terms with our own mortality.
2: The "Hamlet" Principle. Michael Rosen talks about the experience of losing a son or daughter, from the point of view of the death of his own 18-year-old son Eddie from meningitis. Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm

Contributors

Talks:
Michael Rosen

From war rations to vitamins and fad diets, scientists have told us what we should and should not eat. Nutritionist Jane Clarke visits the archives of the Imperial War Museum, the Nutrition Society and Good Housekeepingmagazme, to investigate the history Of her profession. Producer Erika Wright

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Clarke
Producer:
Erika Wright

By Charlotte Bronte. Dramatised in three parts by Jane Rogers. 1: Set in 1811-12, the time of the Luddites, Caroline is in love with Robert Moore , tenant of Hollow's Mill. Trouble begins when Moore tries to bring in new machinery. Then Shirley Keeldar arrives with her new inheritance, to live nearby at Fieldhead.
Music composed by Olly Fox Director Susan Roberts Repeated from Sunday 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jane Rogers.
Unknown:
Robert Moore
Unknown:
Shirley Keeldar
Composed By:
Olly Fox
Director:
Susan Roberts
Robert:
Adrian Bower
Shirley:
Emma Cunniffe
Caroline:
Deborah McAndrew
Hortense:
Brigit Forsyth
Peter:
Vincent Patrick
Sweeting:
Adam Sunderiand
Farren:
Adam Sunderiand
Rev Helstone:
Russell Dixon
Yorke:
John Branwellbranwell
Moses:
John Branwell
Mrs Pryor:
Christine Cox
Joe:
Andy Wear
Michael:
Andy Wear
Sarah:
Michelle Hardwick
Fanny:
Michelle Hardwick

Prize Winning Poets. Christopher Cook talks to Peter Porter, who has just been awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry, and Jacob Polley, who won the Arts Council's First Verse Award in April at the BBC Poetry Weekend in Manchester.
(Repeated from Sunday 4.30pm)

Contributors

Talks:
Christopher Cook
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
Jacob Polley

Five short stories exploring what it meansto live in a foreign land. 2: The Water Bird. Written and read by Emily Perkins. If you were given the choice of living only in this country for the rest of your life, never being allowed to leave it, or of being able to explore the world, travelling whereveryou wanted but never able to return home - which would you choose? Producer Julia Butt

Contributors

Read By:
Emily Perkins.
Producer:
Julia Butt

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