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Jonathan Dimbleby is in the chair at St John's
College Theatre in Southseawith a panel including Eric Pickles and Professor Germaine Greer. Producer Victoria Wakely

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Eric Pickles
Unknown:
Germaine Greer
Producer:
Victoria Wakely

Dramatised by Mike Walker from the novel by Marc Dugain.

Blown up on the Western Front, Adrien Fournier wakes up in the officers' ward with a dawning awareness that some traumatic incident has shattered his life. Based on the true account of the author's grandfather, this story makes a pilgrimage to the remotest outposts of human experience where heroism, friendship, pity and humour take unexpected new forms.

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Mike Walker
Novel By:
Marc Dugain
Director:
John Taylor
Adrien:
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Clemence:
Megan Dodds
Pierre:
Alan Cox
Henri:
Nicholas Rowe
Nurse:
Poppy Miller
Marguerite:
Maxine Peake
Doctor:
Jonathan Keeble
M Grichard:
Don McCorkindale

John Cole joined the Belfast Telegraph as an apprentice in 1945. They paid him L2 a week. In the first of a new series, he talks to printers, engineers and textile workers to reveal the life of the apprentice. Producer Sally Flatman

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cole
Producer:
Sally Flatman

As Dance Theatre of Harlem, one of America's most acclaimed ballet companies, makes a long-awaited return to London, Tom Sutcliffe and guests give their verdict on its performance. Plus an exhibition of new work by Tracey Emin entitled This Is Another Place which opens at Modern Art Oxford, the new name of the recently refurbished Museum of Modern Art Oxford. Producer Mohini Patel

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Unknown:
Tracey Emin
Producer:
Mohini Patel

Three talks by Thomas Lynch. 3: Full Circle at Loop Head. Over 100 years ago Thomas Lynch left Ireland for America. Now his great-grandson, the Michigan undertaker and poet of the same name, returns to West Clare for afamilyfuneral, and a new chapter begins in the life of the ancestral cottage in Moveen Producer Kate McAII

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Lynch.
Producer:
Kate McAii

During the Second World War, Britain was home to 450,000 German and Italian prisoners of war. The last PoWs left for Germany in 1948, but many of the now "displaced persons" chose to remain and build lives forthemselves in post-war Britain. Tom
Fleming tells the story of the prisoner-of-war camps and the men who lived in them. Producer ubby cross

By Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dramatised in four parts by Melissa Murray.
2: Prince Myshkin arrives at Nastasya's birthday party full of eager anticipation and yet fearful that the excitement will provoke an epileptic fit. Director Cherry Cookson Repeated from Sunday at 3pm

Contributors

Writer:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dramatist:
Melissa Murray
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Prince Myshkin:
Paul Rhys
Rogozhin:
Roger Allam
Ganya:
Alex Jennings
Nastasya:
Lia Williams
GenYepanchin:
David Swift
Gen Ivolgin:
Stephen Moore
Lebedev:
Gerard McDermott
Mrs Yepanchin:
Paula Jacobs
Aglaya:
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Kolya:
Carl Prekopp
Alexander:
Jemma Churchill
Totsky:
Martin Hyder

Michael Buerk chairs a live debate on the moral conundrums behind one of the week's news stories. Claire Fox , Steven Rose , Michael Gove and Ian Hargreaves cross-examine witnesses who hold passionate but conflicting views.
Producer David Coomes Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Claire Fox
Unknown:
Steven Rose
Unknown:
Michael Gove
Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves
Producer:
David Coomes

Roger McGough presents listeners' requests including poems by DannyAbse and Paul Durcan. Plus a report on a major exhibition at the Imperial
War Museum featuring the life and work of the First World War poets.
Producer Paul Dodgson Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Paul Durcan.
Producer:
Paul Dodgson

Written and read in ten parts by Alan Bennett. With customary wryness, Alan Bennett reminisces about growing up in Leeds. 4: A Shy Butcher Music by George Fenton Producer Mary Kalemkerian BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This series is available on audio cassette and compact disc. Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Bennett.
Unknown:
Alan Bennett
Music By:
George Fenton
Producer:
Mary Kalemkerian

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