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To keep the nation's pictures safe from German bombs in 1939, the National Gallery evacuated its entire collection from Trafalgar Square to the Manod slate quarry near Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales. Emrys Evans recalls seeing the lorries lumbering up the valley to their secret destination over 60 years ago, and current gallery staff wonder how they would react to the threat of war today. Producer Lucy Lunt

Contributors

Producer:
Lucy Lunt

By Mike Stott. Meet Barry Bunn of Bunn and Co, estate agents in a small Pennine town. Barry has returned from his annual holiday and, rather surprisingly, given his absence, business is booming. Or not so much a boom as a dull thud.
Producer Bruce Hyman Director Dirk Maggs

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Stott.
Unknown:
Barry Bunn
Producer:
Bruce Hyman
Director:
Dirk Maggs
Tracey:
Lyndsey Marshal
Barry:
Keith Barren
Colette:
Julia Deakin
Nigel:
James Frost

By Sophie McCook. Kelly is staring down the barrel of her 30th birthday and life is making her panic. If only she could do it all again, she'd make the right choices, especially in love. When Kelly meets Faith, a personal life trainer, Faith offers her the opportunity to redo the bits she got wrong the first time around. Given the chance - would you?
Director Lu Kemp

Contributors

Unknown:
Sophie McCook.
Director:
Lu Kemp
Kelly:
Julie Austin
Faith:
Carol Ann Crawford
Mum:
Janette Foggo
Chaz:
Steve McNicoll
Sharly:
Jenny Ryan
Bill:
Nick Underwood

The return of the series showcasing first time and emerging short-story writers, read by voices new to radio.

Written and read by Dariush Alavi.
Mr Singh believes that ignoring racial tensions and moving house every time trouble arises are the best ways to protect his family. But, one evening, an event forces him to abandon his role as observer and take a stand.

Contributors

Author/Reader:
Dariush Alavi
Producer:
Gemma Jenkins

Peter France introduces a five-part journey into an alien empire as the lives of two colonies of wood ants are followed over the course of a year. Using specially designed microphones, listeners are immersed in the noisy world of the wood-ant nest and the sounds of the changing seasons in the surrounding forest.
Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson Producer Sarah Blunt

Contributors

Introduces:
Peter France
Unknown:
Chris Watson

Nigel Rees is joined by Nick Higham , Julian Fellowes , Matthew Parris and Lynne Truss , who exchange favourite quotations. The reader is Peter Jefferson. Producer Carol Smith Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
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Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Nick Higham
Unknown:
Julian Fellowes
Unknown:
Matthew Parris
Unknown:
Lynne Truss
Unknown:
Peter Jefferson.
Producer:
Carol Smith

A ten-part romantic drama by Mary Brunton, set in Perthshire and London. Dramatised by and starring Gerda Stevenson

In a world where polite society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders, can Laura Montreville choose wisely between passion and virtue?

Colonel Hargrave's sexual advances are too much for Laura, so she places her suitor on a two-year probation.

Other parts played by members of the cast
(Repeat of 10.45am)

Contributors

Author:
Mary Brunton
Dramatised by:
Gerda Stevenson
Director:
Bruce Young
Narrator:
Maureen Beattie
Laura:
Gerda Stevenson
Montreville:
Bernard Horsfall
Mrs Douglas:
Phyllida Law
Hargrave:
Andrew Wincott
De Courcy:
Tom Goodman-Hill
Lady Pelham:
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Harriet:
Tracy-Ann Oberman
Jeannie:
Colette O'Neil
Warren:
Thomas Arnold
Wilkins:
David Timson
Robert:
Stuart McGugan
Mary:
Emma Woolliams

In the second of a three-part series examining the plight of Africa's wildlife in the context of the continent's human tragedy, Julian Pettifer looks at the sophisticated conservation tools that might rescue both Africa's wilderness and its people. Producer Julian Hector

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Pettifer
Producer:
Julian Hector

By Dai Sijie , abridged in eight episodes by Sarah LeFanu and read by David Yip. 1: At the height of Mao's Cultural Revolution in China, two students from the city are sent to a remote village on Phoenix Mountain for "re-education"by the peasants. They must work in the fields but first they have to explain the presence of a "bourgeois toy" - a violin - in their possession. Producer Mary Ward Lowery

Contributors

Unknown:
Dai Sijie
Unknown:
Sarah Lefanu
Read By:
David Yip.
Producer:
Mary Ward Lowery

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