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With John Humphrys and Martha Kearney.
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Rev Rob Marshall.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Martha Kearney.
Unknown:
Rob Marshall.

On a journey from Bombayto Calcutta, Mark Tully celebrates the 150th anniversary of Indian railways with the drivers, caterers, ticket collectors, attendants and fellow travellers taking this modern trip in the shadow of the Imperial Indian Mail.
2: "Leave Woman, Food and Sleep. " It's a tough life for an Indian railwayman, travelling up and down nearly 40,000 miles oftrack, but there's a sense of adventure, fun and family feeling among both staff and travellers which makes the longest journeys in India so different from their British equivalents. Producer Vanessa Harrison

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Tully
Producer:
Vanessa Harrison

Return of the topical comedy show, with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis , Marcus Brigstocke , Emma Kennedy , Mitch Benn and Jon Holmes. Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Punt
Unknown:
Hugh Dennis
Unknown:
Marcus Brigstocke
Unknown:
Emma Kennedy
Unknown:
Mitch Benn
Unknown:
Jon Holmes.

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in the University of Bristol puts questions to a panel that includes former health secretary
Frank Dobson , the Liberal Democrat spokesman on international development Dr Jenny Tonge , and Daily Mail columnist Anne Leslie. Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Frank Dobson
Unknown:
Dr Jenny Tonge
Unknown:
Anne Leslie.

Dave Sheasby 's international story of intrigue and wealth stars Geoffrey Whitehead , Phyllida Law and Clive Swift. The discovery in France of a drawing of Picasso's first lover, Fernande Olivier , brings together small-time Rotherham art dealer Christopher Sanderson and earthy fish-and-chip shop proprietors Reg and Edna Mullins.
Director David Hunter

Contributors

Writer:
Dave Sheasby
Director:
David Hunter
Christopher:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Mme Rouvel:
Phyllida Law
Claude:
Clive Swift
Edna:
Rachel Davies
Reg:
John Hartley
Lomas:
Kenny Blyth
Williamson:
Thomas Arnold
Julia:
Jennie Stoller

Hundreds of thousands of children get educated in informal home settings ratherthan in classrooms.
Maud Hand finds out what becomes of some of them in later life and the effects on adulthood at home and at work - Of being unschooled. Producer Nick Baker

Contributors

Producer:
Nick Baker

New presenter Jim White interviews Sliding Doors director Peter Howitt , whose new film is a spoof spy thriller Johnny English starring Rowan Atkinson.
Also, luck becomes a commodityto be gambled in the Spanish film Intacto. Producer Jerome Weatherald

Contributors

Presenter:
Jim White
Director:
Peter Howitt
Unknown:
Rowan Atkinson.
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

n James Maw presents a radio portrait of the queue forthe lying-in-state of the Queen Mother on the final night before her funeral a year ago this week. The programme draws on his interviews with people in the queue, plus extracts from the broadcast archives. Producer Rob Ketteridge

Contributors

Unknown:
James Maw
Producer:
Rob Ketteridge

By Evelyn Waugh. Adapted for radio in four parts by Jeremy Front. 4: Charles is overwhelmed by meeting Julia again on board ship, but will his relationship with the Marchmain family still prove to bejinxed?
Music byNeil Brand Director Marion Nancarrow Rptd from Sunday 3pm BBC RADIO COLLECTION: This full-cast dramatisation is available on audio cassette and CD at good retail outlets orwww.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]
Danny Kelly on the BBC's Big Read project: page 12

Contributors

Unknown:
Evelyn Waugh.
Director:
Marion Nancarrow Rptd
Unknown:
Danny Kelly
Charles:
Ben Miles
Sebastian:
Jamie Bamber
Mr Ryder:
Benjamin Whitrow
Lord Marchmain:
Edward Petherbridge
Julia:
Anne-Marie Duff
Celia:
Eve Best
Actor:
Brideshead Tobyjones
Rex:
William Hope
Cordelia:
Abby Ford
Boy Mulcaster:
Tom Smith
Anthony:
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Cara:
Uza Sadovy
Nanny Hawkins:
Ann Beach
Wilcox/Hooper:
Andrew Wincott
Father MacKay:
Jonathan Keeble
Doctor:
Sean Baker

The Emerging Mind. Another chance to hear the first of this year's series of lectures from the Royal Institute in London in which Professor VS
Ramachandran examines what science is discovering about the human mind.
1: Phantoms in the Brain. How the exploration of neurological curiosities can reveal startling facts about the wiring in our brains. Introduced by Sue
Lawley from the Royal Institution in London. See this week's Choice on page 124. Repeated from Wednesday

The final programme in the series goes to West Yorkshire, Ted Hughes 's birthplace. Jackie Kay meets fellow poet and Yorkshireman
Simon Armitage in Mytholmroyd where Hughes grew up, and then travels to Hebden Bridge to meet poet Amanda Dalton. Repeatedfrom Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Hughes
Unknown:
Jackie Kay
Unknown:
Simon Armitage
Unknown:
Amanda Dalton.

Another chance to hear a series of stories about the pleasures and pains of childhood and school. 1: The Dirty Di Renzis by Sheila Yeger. Read by Marlene Sidaway. To a young girl growing up in postwar suburbia, the unruly Di Renzi children hold out the promise Of forbidden pleasure. Producer Sara Davies

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Yeger.
Read By:
Marlene Sidaway.
Unknown:
Di Renzi
Producer:
Sara Davies

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