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From the Metropolitan Cathedral of St David, Cardiff, led by the Dean, Fr Peter Collins. The preacher is the Most Rev Peter Smith , Archbishop of Cardiff. Psalm 21.1 John 3, vv 18-24; John 14, vv 1-8. Kyrie (Little Organ Mass) (Haydn); Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem; Firmly I Believe and Truly; This Joyful Eastertide. Director of music David Neville. EMAIL: [email address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Fr Peter Collins.
Unknown:
Peter Smith
Music:
David Neville.

Joining Nigel Rees to exchange favourite quotations are Jennie Bond , Naomi Gryn , Deborah Bull and Bonnie Greer. The reader is Meryl O'Keeffe. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
Jennie Bond
Unknown:
Naomi Gryn
Unknown:
Deborah Bull
Unknown:
Bonnie Greer.

Bob Rowerdew , Pippa Greenwood , Bunny Guinness and Anne Swithinbank are at Sparsholt College in Hampshire, home of the Gardeners' Question Time garden, forthe programme's annual roadshow. Eric Robson is in the chair.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Rowerdew
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Anne Swithinbank
Unknown:
Eric Robson
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

By F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted for radio in two parts by Michael Hastings. Starring Michael Maloney.
The tragic romance of young actress Rosemary Hoyt and the stylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver, set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s.
Producer Nicholas Newton
Director Sebastian Graham-Jones
Repeated on Saturday at 9pm
See also Four Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tue-Fri at 3.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Unknown:
Michael Hastings.
Unknown:
Michael Maloney.
Unknown:
Rosemary Hoyt
Unknown:
Nicole Diver
Producer:
Nicholas Newton
Director:
Sebastian Graham-Jones
Rosemary:
Rebecca Hall
Mrs Speers:
Lorelei King
Dick:
Michael Maloney
Nicole:
Jennifer Lee Jellicorse
Tommy:
Andrew Scott
Mr McKisco:
Trevor Ray
Mrs McKisco:
Lynne Miller
Abe:
Colin Stinton
Collis:
Dan Fredenburgh
Jules:
Joseph Mydell
Beth:
Kyra Williams

The novelist Sue Miller explains to Mariella Frostrup why she felt driven to write a memoir about her father's Alzheimer's. And Esther Freud champions Tove Jansson , best known forthe Moomin books. Producer Erin Riley Repeated on Thursday at 4pm
June's Bookclub: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman
July's Bookclub: The Tortilla Curtain by T Coraghessan Boyle

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue Miller
Unknown:
Mariella Frostrup
Unknown:
Esther Freud
Unknown:
Tove Jansson
Producer:
Erin Riley
Unknown:
Sally Beauman
Unknown:
Coraghessan Boyle

"All a poet can do today is warn," wrote Wilfred Owen during the First World War. In today's programme
Roger McGough presents a selection of war poetry requested by listeners.
Producer Kate McAII Repeated on Saturday

Contributors

Unknown:
Wilfred Owen
Unknown:
Roger McGough
Producer:
Kate McAii

More from Phil Smith on the real world of gardening. 2: Planners and Other Bad Odours. It appears that beneath the surface of Phil's garden there is too much of the wrong kind of soil-but that's not enough to stop the long tentacles of the bureaucrats. Producer Harry Parker Repeated on Saturday at 7.45

Contributors

Unknown:
Phil Smith
Producer:
Harry Parker

Barney Harwood presents the programme from Boskenwyn Primary School in Cornwall, with quizzes, reports and the third episode of Brooksie by Neil Arskey , read by Ralph Little.
Producer Jane Chambers EMAIL: gfi@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Barney Harwood
Unknown:
Neil Arskey
Read By:
Ralph Little.

Martin Jarvis chooses and performs the first of five Richmal Crompton stories featuring the immortal schoolboy, William. 1: The Outlaws and the Tramp
William Brown and his faithful Outlaws are unusually concerned with making provisions for their future careers. But attempting to raise money has unforeseen consequences. Producer Rosalind Ayres

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Jarvis
Unknown:
Richmal Crompton
Unknown:
William Brown
Producer:
Rosalind Ayres

Talking Turkey. What's it like doing business in an enormously promising country with an economy that is often on the edge of plunging into chaos?
Peter Day finds out in Turkey; a place that is on the edge of the European Union, the new Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Iraq.
Producer Richard Berenger Editor Stephen Chilcott Repeated from Thu

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day
Producer:
Richard Berenger
Editor:
Stephen Chilcott

A look at the politics of the next seven days with Andrew Rawnsley. Including at 10.45 Strictly
Speaking. Christopher Silvester investigates the secret world of political speech writing, revealing the real stories behind key speeches of recent times. Editor John Evans Strictly Speaking repeated Wed 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley.
Unknown:
Christopher Silvester
Editor:
John Evans

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