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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 Elaine Storkey.
8.45 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Sarah Montague.
Unknown:
Elaine Storkey.

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the debate from the Burford School in Oxfordshire with a panel including the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Patricia Hewitt MP, Liberal Democrat Peer Lord Jenkins and author Frederick Forsyth.

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Frederick Forsyth

A French novelist disappears during a trip to a mystery-writers' convention in the Czech Republic. When private investigator Francois Novacek returns to his father's homeland to pursue the missing writer, he starts to uncover more than he bargained for about his own past.
All other parts are performed by members of the cast
Director Lu Kemp

Contributors

Writer:
Didier Daeninckx
Dramatised by:
Melanie Garrett Fraser
Director:
Lu Kemp
Francois Novacek:
Lewis Howden
Jarmila:
Katherine Igoe
Nina:
Monica Gibb
Mirotek:
Paul Young
Alina:
Carol Ann Crawford
General Pokorne:
Gareth Thomas
Jiri:
Simon Tart
Ludovik:
Michael Perceval Maxwell

Andrew Jefford concludes his history of how French wine-makers coped with the German Occupation in the Second World War. 2: Collaboration or Resistance? A new level of cunning and counter-cunning developed as the Germans were as determined to enjoy the fruits of their victory as the French were eagerto protect the very symbol of their culture and way of life. Producer Paul Kobrak

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Jefford
Producer:
Paul Kobrak

Joe Cornish talks to writer Steven Knight, the creator of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, about his new film Dirty Pretty Things - an expose of the working lives of illegal immigrants in London. Knight visited sweatshops and hotels to discover the truth about the jobs they do to get money or false passports.

Contributors

Talks:
Joe Cornish
Unknown:
Steven Knight
Producer:
Stephen Hughes

Joining Ned Sherrin for music, comedy and conversation this week are Peter Ustinov and his biographer John Miller , Emma Freud and Richard Coles. ProducerTorquil Macleod

Contributors

Unknown:
Ned Sherrin
Unknown:
Peter Ustinov
Unknown:
John Miller
Unknown:
Emma Freud
Unknown:
Richard Coles.

Woody Allen plays a top insurance investigator who turns thief under hypnosis in his latest film The
Curse of the Jade Scorpion, a romantic comedy set in 1940s New York. Tom Sutcliife and guests give their verdict on this and review an exhibition of the German Renaissance painter Albrecht Durer at the British Museum. Producer Mohini Patel

Contributors

Unknown:
Woody Allen
Unknown:
Tom Sutcliife
Unknown:
Albrecht Durer
Producer:
Mohini Patel

The first in a three-part series in which writers who have published memoirs compose and read a letter to themselves when young. Today Diana Athill writes to herself aged 23, when she was coming to terms With the desertion Of her lover. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Diana Athill

Hank Wangford tells the story of the longest-running radio programme in the world - as American as apple pie and just as delicious. The Grand Ole Opry was largely responsible for country music becoming the multi-billion-dollar industry it is today and forturning the polite southern town of Nashville into Music City. Producer Dave Batchelor

Contributors

Unknown:
Hank Wangford
Unknown:
Ole Opry
Producer:
Dave Batchelor

By Virginia Woolf. Dramatised in two parts by Eileen Atkins. The story of the Ramsay family holidaying in Scotland before the First World War is dominated by Virginia Woolf 's wonderful portrait of the beautiful Mrs Ramsay. The family's planned expedition to a lighthouse nearby is a symbolic and emotional journey which "moves most surely and with beauty among the deepest and most delicate motions of the human heart and spirit." Part 1.
Director Cherry Cookson
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of To the Lighthouse is available on audio cassette at good retail outlets or www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Virginia Woolf.
Unknown:
Eileen Atkins.
Unknown:
Virginia Woolf
Unknown:
Mrs Ramsay.
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Mrs Ramsay:
Vanessa Redgrave
Lily:
Juliet Stevenson
Mr Ramsay:
John Wood
William:
Edward Petherbridge
Charles:
Robert Glenister
Minta:
Jane Whittenshaw
Cam:
Alison Pettitt
MrCarmichael:
Gavin Muir
Paul:
Tom George
Nancy:
Gemma Saunders
Andrew:
David Thorpe
James:
George Allonby

Michael Buerk chairs another live debate on a topical moral conundrum. Claire Fox ,
Ian Hargreaves , Steven Rose and Melanie Phillips cross-examine witnesses who hold passionate but conflicting views on one of the week's news stories. Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Claire Fox
Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves
Unknown:
Steven Rose
Unknown:
Melanie Phillips

3: The Farmer's Bride. Charlotte Mew's haunting tale of unrequited rural longing was first published in 1912 but still has powerful echoes 90 years later, as Peggy Reynolds discovers when she explores its background, effect and lasting appeal. Rptd from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Reynolds

Written and read in ten parts by Alan Bennett.
With customary wryness, Alan Bennett reminisces about growing up in Leeds. 8: Aunt Eveline 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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