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Nearly ten years ago Tony Phillips made a series of programmes called Hidden Voices, which looked at the lives of Muslims in different European cities. A decade on, he returns to meet the people he originally interviewed to gauge how their lives have changed over the intervening years. In the first programme he travels to Andalucia in Spain and hears from Dr Mansur Escudero, a psychiatrist and a leader of Spanish Muslims.

Contributors

Presenter:
Tony Phillips
Interviewee:
Dr Mansur Escudero
Producer:
Tony Phillips

The Anniversary Waltz. By Jeremy Front, starring Prunella Scales. Max and Shirley bicker all day long in their north-London deli. Max believes the customers love their bantering but Shirley has had enough. There must be more to life than this. Producer/director Peter Kavanagh

Contributors

Writer:
Jeremy Front
Director:
Peter Kavanagh
Shirley:
Prunella Scales
Max:
Roger Allam
Roszinka:
Rebecca Front
Girl:
Rosle Fellner
Marcy:
Uza Sadovy
Toastmaster/Old Man:
Bruce Purchase

By Kenneth Grahame, dramatised by Martyn Wade. The lives of five orphans growing up in the English countryside are filled with fun and games, magical fantasies and adventures. But the time will come when the toys are put away and the threat of boarding school looms.

Contributors

Author:
Kenneth Grahame
Dramatised By:
Martyn Wade.
Music:
Elizabeth Parker
Director:
Cherry Cookson
The man:
James Fleet
Miss Smedley:
Marcia Warren
The boy:
Jesse Jeune
Charlotte:
Alexandra Stone
Edward:
Oliver Cookson
Harold:
Harry Francis
Uncle Thomas:
David Timson
Aunt Eliza:
Ann Beach
Mr Hodgitts:
Ian Masters
Aunt Maria:
Patience Tomlinson
Uncle William:
Gerard McDermott
Martha:
Hannah Dee

In the UN International Year of Fresh Water, it's s been estimated that more than a billion people have no access to safe drinking water. Zina Saro-Wiwa presents five life-preservingjourneys forwaterfrom around the world. 1: Ethiopia. Mother of three, Maku Amano , walks nine hours to and from the Awash river to fetch water. Producer Virginia Crompton

Contributors

Unknown:
Zina Saro-Wiwa
Unknown:
Maku Amano
Producer:
Virginia Crompton

The famous "antidote to panel games' starts a new series from the Civic Theatre, Darlington, where Tony Hawks joins regulars Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden , Tim Brooke-Taylor and Humphrey Lyttelton. Colin Sell is at the piano.
Producer Jon Naismith Repeated Sunday 12.04pm
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Contributors

Unknown:
Barry Cryer
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Humphrey Lyttelton.
Unknown:
Colin Sell
Producer:
Jon Naismith

Jumping the Decades. As the National Theatre revives torn Stoppard's Jumpers, Mark Lawson talks to Stoppard and others about the history of a play which boldly combines philosophy and gymnastics. Producer Sally Spurring

Contributors

Talks:
Mark Lawson

The real-life memoir of writer Eleanor Farjeon, dramatised in five parts by Adrian Bean and starring Rosemary Leach, Margot Leicester and Henry Goodman. Eleanor's mother Maggie is old and fading. As Eleanor recollects her mother's dazzling youth, the two begin a vivid and emotional journey of reminiscence, beginning with Maggie's surprising choice of fiance.
(Rpt of 10.45am)

Contributors

Author:
Eleanor Farjeon
Dramatised by:
Adrian Bean
Pianist:
Mary Andrews
Producer/Director:
John Taylor
Eleanor:
Margot Leicester
Old Maggie:
Rosemary Leach
Ben:
Henry Goodman
Young Maggie:
Barbara Barnes
Joe Jefferson:
William Roberts
Josie:
Rachel Atkins
Nellie:
Rebecca Padley
Blanchard/Dickens:
Jonathan Keeble
Harry:
Thomas Brownlowe
Bertie:
Mathew Thomas Davies
Joe Fadeon:
Freddie Hale
Young Ben:
Paul Giles

Bugging is big business. now tnattecnnoiogy can provide ever more sophisticated devices, the temptation to spy on rivals, colleagues or spouses is growing. Is the surveillance industry making a killing out of paranoia? And what are the implications for our privacy? Gareth Mitchell looks at the individuals, methods and technologies behind modern surveillance to find out what it is like to be bugged. Producer Jonathan Fildes

Contributors

Unknown:
Gareth Mitchell
Producer:
Jonathan Fildes

Sheep farmer Ken Wild lives on an island in an 18th-century farmhouse, surrounded by the six lanes of the transpennine M62 motorway. In a tapestry of words, sound and specially composed music, this programme explores the contrast between the simple existence of Ken and his wife Beth with the complexity of the modern lives carried by the motorway. Reporter Gary O'Donoghue.

[Caption] Where speeding juggernauts and sheep farming meet - right in the middle of the busy M62 motorway

A Fork in the Road 8.30pm R4
There can't be many people who have been woken up by a lorry carrying thousands of books crashing on to their land, but for whom such an event seems to be on only a slightly grander scale than the usual car-through-the-garden-fence. But then most people don't live on a farm between two three-lane stretches of motorway. Ken Wild and his wife Beth describe life in this most bizarre of locations - Ken is happy to walk miles away with his sheep, while Beth describes the strangeness of leaving her kitchen and being able to hear the sound of bacon sizzling when a landslide closed off the M62. We also listen to regular drivers for whom the sight of this road-encircled farmhouse symbolises that they're on their way home. Beth would love a bungalow; Ken's not for moving. But then, I suspect, he'd have a problem finding a buyer...

Contributors

Subject:
Ken Wild
Reporter:
Gary O'Donoghue
Music:
Robert Melotti
Music:
Nick Hughes
Music:
Andy Wild
Producer:
Laurence Grissell

How Does Your Garden Grow? The programme takes up residence in a wildlife-rich country garden in Wiltshire that has been wired for sound by recordist Chris Watson in order to eavesdrop on the garden's residents going about their daily business. Presenter Lionel Kelleway finds out about the silent rhythms, signals and cues at work in the garden. Producer Sheena Duncan Repeated tomorrow at 11am
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Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Watson
Presenter:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
Sheena Duncan

By Alexander Pushkin.
This novel in verse tells the story of the bored society fop Eugene Onegin, the unspoilt country maid who falls in love with him and the ill-starred young poet Vladimir Lensky. Abridged in five parts by James E Falen and read by Paul Freeman.

Contributors

Author:
Alexander Pushkin
Abridged by:
James E Falen
Reader:
Paul Freeman
Producer:
Jane Marshall

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