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Presented by Jenni Murray.
From small ads to speed-dating agencies and chat rooms, the UK dating industry is estimated to be worth L600 million. So have all these professional services changed the way we meet and altered our expectations of a relationship?
10.45AWalkon the MilkyWay
Part 1 of this week's Woman's s Hourdrama. Drama repeated at 7.45pm

Contributors

Presented By:
Jenni Murray.

Peter Snow brings alive stories from historic newspapers.
3: Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 23 March 1772. One story dominates: the passage through Parliament of George Ill's pet project-the Royal Marriages Act, which is still in force today. Peter
Snow explores the royal scandal that prompted the legislation and asks whether or not the change in the law actually damped down blue-blooded libido. And a look at the plight of a widowed lady chimney sweep. Producer Andrew Green

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Snow
Producer:
Andrew Green

By Mike Stott , starring Keith Barren.
Barry enters dangerous territory when he plans to compete with property prices in the south. But it seems that his dream of million-pound sales might be about to come true when a blast from the past crops up in Boggart's Bridge-the acclaimed King of Gunk-Rock. Jed Thrust.
Producer Bruce Hyman Director Dirk Maggs

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Stott
Unknown:
Keith Barren.
Producer:
Bruce Hyman
Director:
Dirk Maggs
Nigel:
James Frost
Barry:
Keith Barron
Tracey:
Lyndsey Marshal
Colette:
Julia Deakln
Little Mo:
Jennie Stoller
Big Mo:
Gwyneth Powell
Jed Thrust:
Ken Jones
YoungJed:
Rupert Degas

With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.
Second of three parking specials. Who profits from parking? The team investigates where the money is going and searches for Britain's most expensive parking space.
Producers Matt Foster and Sarah Griffiths

Contributors

Unknown:
Winifred Robinson
Unknown:
John Waite.
Producers:
Matt Foster
Producers:
Sarah Griffiths

By Helen Cresswell , dramatised from her own children's novel. What happens to time when the moon shines on a sundial? When young Minty Cane goes to stay at her aunt's rural cottage she soon discovers the secret power of the moondial in the garden of the big house over the road. It is up to her to travel, to make two new friends across the centuries, and to free them from cruelty and evil.
Music Neil Brand Director David Hunter

Contributors

Unknown:
Helen Cresswell
Director:
David Hunter
Minty:
Julia Hicks
Tom:
Joe O'Brien
Sarah:
Laura Popplewell
MrWorld:
Trevor Peacock
Miss Raven/Miss Vole:
Rachel Atkins
Kate:
Janice Acquah
Mary:
Elizabeth Kelly
Narrator:
John Rowe
Maggs:
Philip Joseph
Doctor:
Jonathan Keeble
Nurse:
Clare Corbett
Mrs Crump:
Ann Beach
Children:
Isadora Hunter
Children Imelda:
Dooley Hunter,
Children Max:
Hope-Stone Bell,
Children:
Jessica Peacock
Children:
Liberty Pollock

1: " I did secretly hope that she might be deaf" Two mothers of deaf children talk of their experiences. Sharon Ridgeway explains her delight that her baby daughter, like her, is deaf, and Cornelia Wilson , a hearing woman with two deaf sons, describes other people's reactions to her children. Producer MoiraHickey

Contributors

Unknown:
Sharon Ridgeway
Unknown:
Cornelia Wilson

Rabbits. Sheila Dillon celebrates rabbits - not the chocolate variety. Forthousands of years they were a staple food, now they' re a taste we 've largely lost. But could our appetite for rabbit be returning? Extended repeat of yesterday 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Dillon

Joining Nigel Rees to exchange favourite quotations and anecdotes this week are special guests Susan Greenfield , Paul Heiney , Simon Fanshawe and Charles Collingwood. The reader is William Franklyn. Producer Carol Smith Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: A collection of highlights from this show is available on audio cassette at good retail outlets or www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

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Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Susan Greenfield
Unknown:
Paul Heiney
Unknown:
Simon Fanshawe
Unknown:
Charles Collingwood.
Unknown:
William Franklyn.

Brian Patten presents a five-part series, grouped by themes, of 20th-century children's verse, in which he talks about his lifelong love of poetry.

A school holiday treat for young and old.

(Repeat of 10.45am)
RT Shop: The Puffin Book of 20th-century Verse (paperback) is available from the RT Shop for £7.99 (including p&p). To order call [number removed] (national rate).Â

The Kids' Panel verdict: page 38

Contributors

Unknown:
Brian Patten
Producer:
Anastasia Tolstoy

Spain. More than 60 years after the event, mass graves from the Spanish Civil War are being excavated. Mariusa Reyes finds out why it's taken
Spain this long to start confronting an ugly side of its past. She also has a dip in the first Moorish bath house for 500 years, and she finds out why the Spanish smoke more than anyone else in the EU. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Mariusa Reyes

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