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Jonathan Ross appeals for donations to buy a caravan for the Family Holiday Association.
Donations: [address removed] Credit Cards [number removed]
Producer Sally Ratman Repeated 9.26pm and Thursday 3.28pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Ross
Producer:
Sally Ratman

From the summer course of the National Youth Choir of Wales atTrinityCollege, Carmarthen. Preacherthe
Rev Dr Mary Cotes. Director of music David Rowland.
Producer Roy Jenkins EMAIL: sunday.worship@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Mary Cotes.
Music:
David Rowland.
Producer:
Roy Jenkins

It's 25 years since the birth of Louise Brown , the world'sfirsttest-tubebaby. In the first of the new series, Sue MacGregor reunites the groundbreaking team that made it possible to consider the achievements and the new developments in IVF. Producer Louise Adamson Repeated on Fnday at 9.00am Stories of success: page 109

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Brown
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Producer:
Louise Adamson

The series in which musicians reinterpret familiar pieces of music through their personal experience. 1: Conductors Roger Norrington , Leonard Slatkin and biographer John Suchettalk about Beethoven s Fifth Symphony. Producer Rosie Boulton

Contributors

Conductors:
Roger Norrington
Conductors:
Leonard Slatkin
Unknown:
John Suchettalk
Producer:
Rosie Boulton

Tony Russell , Matthew Biggs and Bob Flowerdeware in Burford near Oxford. Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood visit Tony Russell 's Gloucestershire garden. Sue Cook is in the chair. Producer Trevor Taylor

Contributors

Unknown:
Tony Russell
Unknown:
Matthew Biggs
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdeware
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Tony Russell
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

r To mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of The Compleat Angler, fly fisherman Geoffrey Palmer presents the first in a series celebrating the life and work of its author, Izaak Walton. 1:Trout. Angler and historian Tony Bridgett reflects on the art of angling and the skills required to outwit a wild brown trout. Producer Sarah Blunt

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Palmer
Unknown:
Izaak Walton.
Unknown:
Tony Bridgett

The Arena. The second of three plays by Mike Walker drawing on Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius. Octavian was 19 when Julius Caesar was killed. As Caesar's appointed heir, he had some formidable adversaries, including Mark Antony , but his political skill was unparalleled. Contains strong language. Producer/director Jeremy Mortimer Repeated Saturday at 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Walker
Unknown:
Julius Caesar
Unknown:
Mark Antony
Director:
Jeremy Mortimer
Augustus Caesar:
Richard Johnson
Octavian:
Adam Levy
Marcus Agrippa:
Ben Crowe
Mark Antony:
Clive Russell
Livia:
Jasmine Hyde
Lepidus:
Bruce Purchase
Senator:
Gerard McDermott
Instructor:
Stephen Critchlow

Mariella Frostrup presents a programme devoted to summer holiday reading and explores vacations in fiction with Sally Vickers , whose new novel is called Mr Golightly 's Holiday. Producer Anne-Mahe Cole Repeated on Thursday at 4pm August Bookciub: Georgians. Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman

Contributors

Unknown:
Mariella Frostrup
Unknown:
Sally Vickers
Unknown:
Mr Golightly
Unknown:
Amanda Foreman

4: Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll. Peggy Reynolds goes out among the slithy toves and braves the frumious bandersnatch as she goes in search of Lewis Carroll 's mythical creature, the Jabberwock. Producer Paul Dodgson Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Lewis Carroll.
Unknown:
Peggy Reynolds
Unknown:
Lewis Carroll
Producer:
Paul Dodgson

From Worsley Bridge Junior School in Kent. Joining Barney Harwood are ex-pupil and Arsenal ladies' team member Leanne Sanderson, and stunt woman Dani Biernat. Plus the fourth episode of Jeremy Strong's drama What Do You Think You're Doing?
Email: [email address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Barney Harwood
Unknown:
Leanne Sanderson
Unknown:
Dani Biernat
Unknown:
Jeremy Strong
Producer:
Jane Chambers

A re-run of contemporary stories set in Wales. 1: A Mother-in-Law Story by Sian James. Alex is surprised to discover that her mother-in-law isn't as bad as she seems. Read by Melanie Walters. Producer Geri Hall-Kenny

Contributors

Story By:
Sian James.
Read By:
Melanie Walters.
Producer:
Geri Hall-Kenny

The Numbers Game. Asylum and migration continue to be hotly debated. David Walker asks why both public and policy-makers have allowed questions of rights, identity and collective choice to be obfuscated. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
David Walker

Mark D'Arcy with the latest political headlines.
Including at 10.45 Brandreth Rules. 4: In the last in his series, Gyles Brandreth offers advice on how to avoid scandal as well as how to recover from it.
Editor John Evans Brandreth Rules Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark D'Arcy
Unknown:
Gyles Brandreth
Editor:
John Evans Brandreth

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