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Sue MacGregor brings togetherthe campaigning team that steered Margaret Thatcher to victory in 1979 and lets them reflect on their achievements and the doubts they had about the chances of a woman becoming prime minister.

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Thatcher

The first in a re-run series of stories about people who have risked their lives for love. 1: Palestine in the 1940s was a country divided. Briitsh servicemen tried to police the Mandate while Jewish underground groups fought forthe creation of Israel.
Linda Pressly hears from men and women who dared to love across the divide. Producer Tanya Datta (R)

Contributors

Producer:
Tanya Datta

I New series The recent discovery of small feathered dinosaurs in China has re-ignited the debate over the origins of flight and blurred the boundaries between birds and reptiles. 1: Archaeopteryx. Jessica Holm sees the London specimen of the very first bird and hears the story of its discovery. Producer Brett westwood Family programmes for autumn: page 32

Contributors

Unknown:
Jessica Holm

The last of a two-part dramatisation of Hazlitt's Liber Amoris by Martyn Wade.

Essayist William Hazlitt has fallen in love with Sarah a woman half his age. He has forced his wife of many years to agree to a Scottish divorce. But will young Sarah return his affections?
(Repeated Saturday at 9pm)

Contributors

Dramatised by:
Martyn Wade
Author:
William Hazlitt
Producer/Director:
Marilyn Imrie
Hazlitt:
Tim McInnerny
Sarah:
Claire Skinner
Mrs Hazlitt:
Alison Steadman
MrsWatker:
Imelda Staunton
Patmore:
Julian Wadham
Fenwick:
William Houston
Cranstoun:
John Bett

Mariella Frostrup talks to the Booker Prize-winning author Pat Barker about her new novel, Double Vision. Best known for her Regeneration trilogy, Barker explains why she continues to return to the themes of war, sexuality and class.
(Repeated Thursday 4pm)
(September Bookclub: Down by the River by Edna O'Brien)

Contributors

Interviewer:
Mariella Frostrup
Interviewee:
Pat Barker
Producer:
Erin Riley

Jackie Kay visits Brownsbank Cottage in Biggar, Scotland, home of the 19th-century poet
Hugh McDiarmid , and talks to Professor Douglas Gifford of the department of Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow and to poet Vicki Feaver. Producer Susan Roberts Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jackie Kay
Unknown:
Hugh McDiarmid
Unknown:
Professor Douglas Gifford
Unknown:
Vicki Feaver.
Producer:
Susan Roberts

Navid Akhtar looks at the hidden clan network that governs the lives of Pakistanis living in Britain. He discovers that the biraderi that helped Pakistanis settle here more than 40 years ago is now threatening to destroy the community. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Navid Akhtar

The second of three programmes in which people who have volunteered for overseas aid work later in life tell their stories. A GP from Sussex describes her work with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Uzbekistan. Producers Emma Wallace and Rob Ketteridge Repeated Saturday at 7.45pm

Contributors

Producers:
Emma Wallace
Producers:
Rob Ketteridge

Barney Harwood goes to Hever Castle in Kent to check out Anne Boleyn 's childhood home, jousting competitions, archery and the maze. And the third episode of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis, read by Helen McCrory.
Producer Jane Chambers EMAIL: gfi@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Barney Harwood
Unknown:
Anne Boleyn
Read By:
Helen McCrory.

A re-run of five stories from Mediterranean countries. 1: The LongCrossing by Leonardo Sciascia. After enduringa wrenching fortnight at sea, a boatload of would-be illegal emigrants from Sicily don't end up where they expected. Read by Mia Soteriou. Producer Chris Wallis (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Leonardo Sciascia.
Read By:
Mia Soteriou.
Producer:
Chris Wallis

Andrew Rawnsley with the latest political headlines. Including at 10.45 Not While I'm Alive, He Ain't. Brian Walden examines the long-running feud between Edward Heath and Enoch Powell.
Editor John Evans Not While I'mMve, He Ain 't repeated Wed 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley
Unknown:
Brian Walden
Unknown:
Edward Heath
Unknown:
Enoch Powell.
Editor:
John Evans

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