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Dennis Sewell appeals on behalf of the Catholic institute for International Relations, an international charity working forthe eradication of poverty
DONATIONS: [address removed] Credit-card donations: [number removed] Producer Sally Flatman Repeated 9.26pm and Thursday 3.28pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dennis Sewell
Producer:
Sally Flatman

From Shirley Methodist Church, Solihull. The service is led by the Rev Peter Bates and the preacher is the Rev Professor Frances Young of Birmingham
University. With the Paul Leddington Wright Singers. ProducerPhilipBillson EMAIL: sunday.worship@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Bates
Unknown:
Professor Frances Young
Singers:
Paul Leddington Wright

Joining Nigel Rees this week are are Dr Simon Thurley ,
Mitchell Symons , Simon Brett and Michael Coveney. The reader is William Franklyn. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Dr Simon Thurley
Unknown:
Mitchell Symons
Unknown:
Simon Brett
Unknown:
Michael Coveney.
Unknown:
William Franklyn.

Food and Landscape. How do the processes of food production in Britain affect the look of our countryside? Sheila Dillon explores the role of the farmer and the consumer in shaping the landscape. Producer Rebecca Moore Extended repeat tomorrow at 4pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Sheila Dillon
Producer:
Rebecca Moore

John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer questions posed by gardeners in Warwickshire. And at the GQTgarden at Sparsholt College in Hampshire, Bunny Guinness plants marginals in the pool, John Cushnie shows how to get water lilies forfree and Bob Flowerdew concocts a plant feed from weeds. Chaired by Eric Robson. Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened repeat on Wed 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Matthew Biggs
Unknown:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Eric Robson.
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

By Mary Webb. Dramatised in two parts by Beatrice Colin. MaryWebb's heart-rending love story, set in Shropshire in the early 19th century. 1: Prue Sam is born "hare shotten" and it is this hare lip that is her "precious bane". She is torn between loyalty to her recklessly ambitious brother, Gideon, and a deep unexpressed love forthe weaver Kester Woodseaves.
Music by Kate Rusby and John McCusker
Director Gaynor Macfarlane Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Mary Webb.
Unknown:
Beatrice Colin.
Unknown:
Prue Sam
Unknown:
Kester Woodseaves.
Music By:
Kate Rusby
Music By:
John McCusker
Director:
Gaynor MacFarlane
Jancis:
Louise Breckon-Richards
Ti wy:
Laura Doddington
Kester:
Owen Teale
Prue:
Julia Ford
Gideon:
Tom Goodman-Hill
Mrs Beguildy:
Helen Schlesinger
Mother:
Maggie Steed
Beguildy:
Nigel Terry
Grimble:
Timothy Watson

Roger McGough introduces more requests for much loved poems, including sonnets by the Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti , whose 175th birthday is this week. Peter Marinker, Claire Skinner and Philip Franks also read poems by Auden, Rumi, and Wendy Cope. Producer Mark Smalley
(Repeated Saturday)

Contributors

Introduces:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Unknown:
Peter Marinker
Unknown:
Claire Skinner
Unknown:
Philip Franks
Unknown:
Wendy Cope.
Producer:
Mark Smalley

After half a century, the Australian Aborigines of Maralinga get their land back. Professor John Keane explores how the British commandeered their land from 1957 to 1963 as a test site for the atom bomb and how far the Aborigines and the servicemen - as well as the environment - were put at risk in the name Of the Cold War. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Professor John Keane

Barney Harwood finds out what makes
Anthony Horowitz 's Alex Rider books so realistic, and nature reporter Caroline Williams tracks down some bats in Bristol. Plus the first episode of a new story, Brooksie by Neil Arksey , read by Ralph Little. Producer Jane Chambers EMAIL: gfi@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Barney Harwood
Unknown:
Anthony Horowitz
Reporter:
Caroline Williams
Unknown:
Neil Arksey
Read By:
Ralph Little.

Fourtales of magic, miracles, mystery, romance and humour. 3: Flamenco. By Andrea Ashworth. Read by Gillian Kearney. Emmy is the new girl in town.
Anxious to fit in at school she joins the school gang and so must hide her feelings for the piano-playing boy who finds himself the butt of the gang's bullying. Producer Katherine Beacon

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrea Ashworth.
Read By:
Gillian Kearney.
Producer:
Katherine Beacon

Emily Buchanan presents an audio guide to marriage around the world, including cross-tribal weddings in South Africa; the Zambian who married his bicycle; famous couples in Egyptian history and the pastor who dispenses no-nonsense marriage guidance on the Jamaican airwaves. Producer Lucy Ash Rptd from Fri Originally scheduled for transmission on 25 and 28 April

Contributors

Unknown:
Emily Buchanan
Producer:
Lucy Ash

A look at the politics of the next seven days with Andrew Rawnsley. Including at 10.45 Writing Down the House. Nick Utechin charts the 200-year history of Hansard parliamentary reports. Part 1 of two. Editor John Evans Writing Down the House repeated Wed 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley.
Unknown:
Nick Utechin
Editor:
John Evans

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