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Do the Right Thing. Dr Jeevan Singh Deol , Research Fellow in Indian history at Cambridge University, wonders whether humans can always be free, no matter how bad things get.
Producer Matt Thompson Repeated at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Jeevan Singh Deol
Producer:
Matt Thompson

An appeal on behalf of Phoenix House, which provides a comprehensive range of specialist treatment services for drug and alcohol users with long-term addiction problems.
DONATIONS: [address removed]Creditcard donations: [number removed]
Producer Sally Ratman Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thurs at 3.28pm

Contributors

Producer:
Sally Ratman

Challenges in the Way. In the Week of Prayer for
Christian Unity, the chaplain of Eastbourne College, Chris Macdonald , explores issues of life and faith with students from different church traditions.
Music director Graham Jones. Producer Stephen Shipley

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris MacDonald
Director:
Graham Jones.
Producer:
Stephen Shipley

John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer questions posed by gardeners in Norfolk. Roy Lancaster is planting fun shrubs,
Bob Flowerdew explains how to "chit" potatoes and Pippa Greenwood reveals how to save pounds on bedding plants. The chairman is Eric Robson.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Eric Robson.

C.P. Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment. Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway and narrated by David Haig.

In 1927, Lewis Eliot starts his rise to power and his escape from the drudgery of a council clerk's office by passing exams to study at the Bar.
(Repeated on Saturday at 9pm)

Contributors

Author:
C.P. Snow
Dramatised by:
Jonathan Holloway
Director:
Sally Avens
Director:
Jeremy Howe
Narrator:
David Haig
Lewis:
Adam Godley
Marion:
Laura Doddington
Katherine:
Carla Simpson
George:
Bill Wallis
Sheila:
Anastasia Hille
Herbert:
Stephen Moore
Percy:
Danny Webb
Charles:
Jamie Glover
Leonard:
John Standing
Ann:
Emma Woolliams
Mrs Getliffe:
Suzanna Hamilton
Rev Knight:
Brett Usher

Mariella Frostrup talks to the children's writer Philip Pullman , whose award-winning trilogy His Dark
Materials has recently been dramatised on Radio 4. Producer Fiona McLean Repeated on Thursday at 4pm

Contributors

Talks:
Mariella Frostrup
Unknown:
Philip Pullman
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Roger McGough presents poems requested by listeners, including VikramSeth's tribute to those who sleep alone, CP Cavafy's classic Ithaka, and Carol Ann Duffy 's Litany, read by the author herself. Producer Sally Heaven Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Carol Ann Duffy

In the second of a series of talks exploring the basic beliefs of Buddhism, Robert Thurman, professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Columbia, explains the causes of suffering.
(Repeated on Saturday at 7.45pm)

Contributors

Speaker:
Professor Robert Thurman
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

Travel journalist Simon Calder continues to explore his passion for maps with the Ordnance Survey. And presenter Barney Harwood goes to Bristol to track down some bats.
Producer Jane Chambers EMAIL: gfi@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Calder
Presenter:
Barney Harwood

Roger Bolton airs listeners' views and opinions on BBC Radio programmes and policy. Write to: Feedback, PO Box 2100, London W1A 1QT
Fax: [number removed] Phone: [number removed] Email: feedback@bbC.CO.Uk Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Bolton

The political headlines of the next seven days, with Andrew Rawnsley. Including at 10.45A View from the Sidelines. The third in a series of four talks by Michael Shea , who remembers the food shortages, bugging devices and secret police that were part of his daily life when he was employed as a diplomat in Romania during the Cold War.
Editor John Evans A View from the Sidelines repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley.
Unknown:
Michael Shea
Editor:
John Evans

Baroness Emma Nicholson chooses prose and poetry which reflect her life campaigning for human rights, and pieces which recall her late husband's work on the Booker Prize committee. With passages by Helon Habila , Ben Okri and Jonathan Sacks , read by Colin McFarlane and Mark Meadows. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Baroness Emma Nicholson
Unknown:
Helon Habila
Unknown:
Ben Okri
Unknown:
Jonathan Sacks
Read By:
Colin McFarlane
Read By:
Mark Meadows.

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