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For Palm Sunday.
From the St Stephen's Centre, Edinburgh.
Led by the Rev Johnston McKay with the St Andrew Camerata.
Director of music Vincent Wallace.

Contributors

Service led by:
The Rev Johnston McKay
Singers:
The St Andrew Camerata
Director of Music:
Vincent Wallace
Producer:
Mo McCullough

Nigel Rees's guests on the literary quiz are Magnus Magnusson, Neil Mullarkey, Jo Caulfield and Allan Massie. The reader is William Franklyn. (Repeated from Monday)

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Rees
Panellist:
Magnus Magnusson
Panellist:
Neil Mullarkey
Panellist:
Jo Caulfield
Panellist:
Allan Massie
Reader:
William Franklyn

Pippa Greenwood , Bob Rowerdew and Roy Lancaster answer questions from gardeners in south London. And how to get a crop of home-grown shitake mushrooms. Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened rpt on Wed 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Bob Rowerdew
Unknown:
Roy Lancaster
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

In 1656, James Nayler , along with a group of Quakers, rode into Bristol in a re-enactment of Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, throwing Parliament and the country into a fervour of Quaker-bashing. This programme uses readings of eye-witness accounts of Nayler's ride, with dramatisations of his trial and punishment. ProducerMarkWhitaker

Contributors

Unknown:
James Nayler

A retelling of the myth by Judith French.
A mysterious Dutchman is condemned to sail the seas for eternity unless he can find a woman who loves him enough to die for him. But how do you prove that a lover would give their soul to save yours? In the short, dark days of a Norwegian winter, this timeless tale explores the power of love and the strength of evil.
Director Rachel Horan
Repeated on Saturday

Contributors

Writer:
Judith French
Director:
Rachel Horan
The Mariner:
Gerard Murphy
The Fiend:
James Laurenson
Senta:
Ellie Beaven
Eric:
Ifan Meredith
Daland:
Pip Donaghy

Mariella Frostrup talks to the writer Ruth LOzeki , whose new novel is a family saga of love, betrayal and genetically modified crops. And three writers explain why the King James Bible inspires them. Producer Erin Riley Repeated on Thursday at 4pm . May's Bookclub: Original Sin byPD James

Contributors

Talks:
Mariella Frostrup
Unknown:
Ruth Lozeki
Producer:
Erin Riley

In the 1950s and 60s, the finest "graduate school of poetry" in the USA was the McLean mental hospital outside Boston, where Sylvia Plath was treated after her first suicide attempt, where Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Lowell was sectioned and where Anne Sexton connived to be admitted. David Stenhouse looks at a unique institution and the extraordinary poetry it inspired. Producer David Stenhouse Repeated Saturday

Contributors

Unknown:
Sylvia Plath
Unknown:
Robert Lowell
Unknown:
Anne Sexton
Unknown:
David Stenhouse
Producer:
David Stenhouse

America locks up more of its citizens than any other developed nation. And Britain is looking to the American model of private prisons for the solution to overcrowding. Lucy Ash travels to New Mexico and North Carolina to find a legacy of deaths, riots and sexual abuse. She asks whether these are isolated incidents orthe inevitable consequence of running prisons for profit. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Lucy Ash

For the second of the On the Roadshows, the programme visits a school in the New Forest. Music expert Richard Frostick holds a workshop using rap and percussion. Plus the final episode of Dream Master: Nightmare by Theresa Breslin. Producer JaneChambers EMAIL: gfi@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Frostick
Unknown:
Theresa Breslin.

The final Blandings story by PG Wodehouse , abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury and read by Alan Titchmarsh. 5: Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend As Blandings Castle opens to the public, Lord Emsworth stands up to his formidable head gardener Angus McAllister. Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Story By:
Pg Wodehouse
Abridged By:
Elizabeth Bradbury
Read By:
Alan Titchmarsh.
Unknown:
Angus McAllister.
Producer:
Fiona McLean

Emily Buchanan eavesdrops on workplaces around the world. There are tips from Canada on how to look busy when skiving, a report from the vanishing world of knife grinders and fishermen in New York, and what it's like to be an investigative reporter in northern India. Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Emily Buchanan

A look at the politics of the next seven days with Andrew Rawnsley. Including at 10.45 Power.
A series of lectures recorded in the early 1960s by AJP Taylor on the changing power ofthe prime minister, beginning with a portrait of Sir Robert Walpole. Editor John Evans Power repeated Wednesday 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley.
Unknown:
Sir Robert Walpole.
Editor:
John Evans

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