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Patricia Greene appeals on behalf of the Mediae Trust that is raising money to start a Ki-Swahil radio soap in Tanzania. DONATIONS: [address removed]Credit-card donations: [number removed]
Producer Sally Ratman Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thu at 3.28pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Patricia Greene
Producer:
Sally Ratman

From the Imperial War Museum North, Oliver McTernan, Fellow of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, reflects for Holocaust Memorial Day on how religious leaders can communicate values of peace and justice to the world. Music includes excerpts from Arvo Part's Berlin Mass.

Contributors

Presenter:
Oliver McTernan
Director of Music:
Nigel Swinford
Producer:
Philip Binson

Juice. Fruitjuice counts as one of the five portions of fruit and vegetables recommended by the Government, but will any kind of fruitjuice do? Is that daily glass of pasteurised, freshly squeezed orange juice really good for you? Sheila Dillon investigates. Producer Lucinda Montefiore Extended repeat tomorrow at 4pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Dillon
Producer:
Lucinda Montefiore

Dylan Winter meets five people whose love of animals has taken over their lives.

Did you know that ten cockroaches can live for a week off the glue on the back of a postage stamp? It's the sort of fact that has persuaded Adrian Durkin to devote his life to collecting cockroaches.

Contributors

Presenter:
Dylan Winter
Guest:
Adrian Durkin
Producer:
Melinda Barker

Continuing CP Snow's epic about the English Establishment. Dramatised in five parts by Jonathan Holloway. Narrated by David Haig.

Lewis Eliot gets caught up in a political scandal that engulfs the family of his friend, Charles March.

(Repeated on Saturday at 8pm)

Contributors

Author:
CP Snow
Dramatist:
Jonathan Holloway
Narrator:
David Haig
Director:
Sally Avens
Director:
Jeremy Howe
Lewis:
Adam Godley
Roy:
Adam Levy
Porson:
Michael Culkin
Winslow:
Clive Merrison
Brown:
Philip Franks
Ann:
Emma Woolliams
Charles:
Jamie Glover
Leonard:
John Standing
Sir Philip:
David Horovitch
Francis:
Andy Taylor
Sheila:
Anastasia Hllle

Mariella Frostrup talks to Tracy Chevalier , author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, and discovers the best websites for book buyers.
Producer Fiona McLean Repeated on Thursday at 4pm

Contributors

Talks:
Mariella Frostrup
Unknown:
Tracy Chevalier
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Roger McGough introduces the actor, writer and director Ken Campbell , who performs The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll.
Producer Sally Heaven Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

Contributors

Introduces:
Roger McGough
Director:
Ken Campbell
Unknown:
Lewis Carroll.

In another talk in a series exploring the basic tenets of Buddhism, Christina Feldman , writer and founder of Gaia House, the meditation and Buddhist studies centre in Devon, explores the third Noble Truth -the cessation of suffering.
Producer Anthony Denselow Repeated on Saturday at 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Christina Feldman
Producer:
Anthony Denselow

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 last in the current series of the programme about words and the way we speak.

Let's Make Up. A woman wearing Gunk, Ruff and Juicy Tubes introduces Michael Rosen to Ecstasy, Orgasm and Urban Decay. But it's not what you might think - these are all make-up products. Also in today's programme, the winners of the Spoof French Translation Competition are announced. (Rptd from Fri)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Rosen

Andrew Rawnsley takes a look at the politics of the next seven days. Including at 10.45 They Fought and Lost. In a series about politicians who have suffered electoral defeat, Steve Richards talks to Chris Patten.
Editor John Evans They Fought and Lost repeated on Wednesday 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley
Talks:
Steve Richards
Unknown:
Chris Patten.
Editor:
John Evans

Christopher Frayling , rector ofthe Royal College of Art, chooses poems and prose that reflect his passions for art, film and horror stories. His choices include readings from Italo Calvino , WB Yeats, Edgar Allan Poe , and an Angela Carter story inspired by travelling around the Carpathian mountains. With readers David Troughton and Harriet Walter.

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Frayling
Unknown:
Italo Calvino
Unknown:
Edgar Allan Poe
Unknown:
Angela Carter
Readers:
David Troughton
Readers:
Harriet Walter.

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