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In a special edition of Money Box s sister programme, Lesley Curwen revisits the listeners who took part in last summer's Inside Moneyseries.
What decisions did they make about their finances and have they put them into practice? Producer Jennifer Clarke Repeated tomorrow 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Lesley Curwen
Producer:
Jennifer Clarke

The team are back to slap the media monkey vigorously with the glove of satire.
Starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis with Marcus Brigstocke, Emma Kennedy, Jon Holmes and Mitch Benn.
(Repeated from Friday)

Contributors

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

Nick Clarke chairs the discussion as an audience at Goodenough College, London, puts questions on issues of the weekto a panel that includes the Conservative candidate for London Mayor
Steve Norris the Liberal Democrat spokesman on foreign affairs' Lord Wallace of Saltaire and the biographer and historian Gitta Sereny. Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Nick Clarke
Unknown:
Steve Norris
Unknown:
Gitta Sereny.

By Russell Hoban. Dramatised by Alison Joseph. The turtles in London Zoo become the mutual obsession of two lonely strangers who dream of setting the turtles - and themselves - free. With Geraldine James as Neaera and Bill Nighy as William. Director Gaynor Macfarlane

Contributors

Author:
Russell Hoban
Dramatist:
Alison Joseph
Naeara:
Geraldine James
William:
Bill Nighy
Director:
Gaynor MacFarlane
Miss Neap/Harriet:
Suzanne Heathcote
Mr Sandor:
Martin Hyder
Mrs lnchcliff:
Isobel Middleton
George Fairbairn:
Graham Turner

Lynne Truss examines the revolutionary impact of everyday objects. 2: The Zip. It has an ingenious arrangement of teeth which keeps the draught out and our money secured, and it can convert any man into a boy soprano in a trice. It is indeed a brilliant invention - except when it breaks. Lynne Truss looks at the history of the zip from its conception in 1893 to the present day with the help of inventor James Dyson and writer Sarah Dunant. producer Erika Wright

Contributors

Unknown:
James Dyson
Unknown:
Sarah Dunant.
Producer:
Erika Wright

The director Joel Schumacher likes to keep busy, what with the release of his Phone Booth this weekend, Veronica Guerin due out in the summer and Phantom of the Opera waiting for release next year. Jim White talks to him and looks ahead to this week's releases, including Spike Lee 's 25th Hour. Producer Jerome Weatheraid

Contributors

Director:
Joel SchumacHer
Unknown:
Veronica Guerin
Talks:
Jim White
Unknown:
Spike Lee
Producer:
Jerome Weatheraid

Charles Saatchi is opening his much heralded new gallery this week - 40,000 square feet of contemporary art will be on display to the public, startingwith a retrospective of works by Damien Hirst. Will this be a stunning showcase of modern art orjust a home fortired old artworks? Tom Sutcliffe and his guests give their views. Plus a look at Phone Booth, the new film by director Joel Schumacher , and at Pattern Recognition, William Gibson 's latest novel about the power of global marketing, paranoia and the internet. Producer Belinda Sample

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles Saatchi
Unknown:
Damien Hirst.
Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Director:
Joel SchumacHer
Unknown:
William Gibson

As an irreverent and provocative journalist, and in lateryears as a Christian apologist,
Malcolm Muggeridge had an enormous influence through his books and broadcasts. On the centenary of his birth, Miles Kington delves into the rich archives he left behind in an attempt to pin down the real Malcolm Muggeridge. Producer Merilyn Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Unknown:
Miles Kington
Unknown:
Malcolm Muggeridge.
Producer:
Merilyn Harris

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 danger of getting what you wish for, the power of love and the strength of evil.
Director Rachel Horan
Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

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

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 and where Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Lowell was sectioned.
David Stenhouse looks at the institution and the poetry it inspired. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Sylvia Plath
Unknown:
Robert Lowell
Unknown:
David Stenhouse

A five-part series of stories about the pleasures and pains of childhood and school.
3: Romeo and Julie by Clare Seal , read by Lisa Coleman. The first performance of the school play should be a triumph, but it turns into Julie's worst nightmare. Producer SaraDavies

Contributors

Unknown:
Clare Seal
Read By:
Lisa Coleman.

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