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Nicholas Parsons presents the panel game from
London. This week's panellists are Paul Merton ,
Sheila Hancock , Kit Hesketh-Harvey and Clement Freud. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Paul Merton
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Clement Freud.

In a rare interview, Tommie Smith talks about the "silent gesture, heard around the world", when he and team-mate John Carlos made their black power salute on the Olympic podium in Mexico in 1968. Guardian and BBC athletics commentator
John Rawling speaks to Smith, Professor Harry Edwaras and sprinter Jim Hines about how the black power salute changed their lives. Producer Simon Crosse (R)

Contributors

Talks:
Tommie Smith
Unknown:
John Carlos
Commentator:
John Rawling
Unknown:
Professor Harry Edwaras
Unknown:
Jim Hines
Producer:
Simon Crosse

John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Roy Lancaster answer some of the questions posed by gardeners at Durham County Cricket Club. And Bunny Guinness and Roy Lancaster get a glimpse behind the scenes at Matthew Biggs 's garden. Eric Robson is in the Chair. Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened

Contributors

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

Rebecca Stott profiles the lives of three women whose fossil collections led to new discoveries about natural history. 2: MaryAnning. The uneducated girl who changed the face of palaeontology with her study of the hundreds of fossils she found in the cliffs at Lyme Regis.
Producer Jane Greenwood

Contributors

Unknown:
Rebecca Stott
Producer:
Jane Greenwood

by Virginia Woolf, narrated by Kristin Scott Thomas and starring Dervia Kirwan.

Katharine Hilbery has become engaged to William Rodney. They have gone to her cousins in Norfolk for Christmas, but things are not going well. Meanwhile, Ralph Denham has also gone to Norfolk at the invitation of Suffrage campaigner Mary Datchet, who is still carrying a torch for him while wrestling with her desire for an independent life...
(Repeated Saturday at 9pm)

Contributors

Author:
Virginia Woolf
Producer/Director:
Kate McAll
Narrator:
Kristin Scott Thomas
Katharine:
Dervla Kirwan
Mrs Hilbery:
Phyllida Nash
Mrs Seal:
Jacqueline Tong
Ralph:
Jamie Glover
Mary:
Susannah Corbett
William:
John MacKay
Mrs Denham:
June Barrie
Cassandra:
Rebecca Smart

Mariella Frostrup presents a guide to the writings of Virginia Woolf. Producer Erin Riley Repeated on Thursday at 4pm August Bookclub: Georgians. Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman.

Contributors

Unknown:
Mariella Frostrup
Producer:
Erin Riley
Unknown:
Amanda Foreman.

2: Waiting for the Barbarians by CP Cavafy, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard.
Peggy Reynolds moves from ancient Roman history to 21st-century British and American politics in her exploration of a poem written by a Greek poet in Alexandria a century ago.
Producer Sara Davies Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

Contributors

Translated By:
Edmund Keeley
Translated By:
Philip Sherrard.
Unknown:
Peggy Reynolds
Producer:
Sara Davies

Jenny Cuffe investigates claims of a crisis in the children's court service, Cafcass, and asks whether poor management and financial constraints are putting the lives of vulnerable children at risk. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Cuffe

1: Expedition to the Dark Side of the Sun
In the first of three personal reflections, actor and journalist John Matshikiza considers African space in its widest sense, and Zambia's eccentric 1960s space programme in particular.
Producer Claire Grove Repeated on Saturday at 7.45

Contributors

Unknown:
John Matshikiza

Barney Harwood visits the Ledbury Poetry Festival. Plus the second episode of Jeremy Strong 's drama, What Do You Think You're Doing?
Producer Jane Chambers EMAIL: gfi@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Barney Harwood
Unknown:
Jeremy Strong

A re-run of readings of short stories by the crime writer Ian Rankin. 4: Herbert in Motion (part 2). Read by James Bryce. It looks likely that a fraudulent art-gallery curator is about to be found out. Producer David Jackson Young (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Rankin.
Read By:
James Bryce.
Producer:
David Jackson Young

Only Human. Studies of apes and other primates have shown that we are not the only beings capable of morality and altruism. So how does societyjustify giving rights to all humans that are not extended to animals? Felipe Fernandez-Armesto investigates what it is to be human. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

A look at the politics of the next seven days with Andrew Rawnsley. Including at 10.45 Brandreth Rules. Gyles Brandreth reveals how to survive in Westminster. 2: What are the unwritten rules, and how and when can you bend them?
Editor John Evans Brandreth Rules repeated Wednesday 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley.
Unknown:
Gyles Brandreth
Editor:
John Evans Brandreth

Huw Edward continues a series in which he explores how operatic masterpieces reflect the political and social circumstances of their age. 2: Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. The strange imitations of art in life that lie behind a quintessential Russian work of art. Producer Kerry Chapman (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Eugene Onegin.
Producer:
Kerry Chapman

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