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4: On Behalf of the People.Last ofthe series about the rebuilding of Britain afterthe Second World War. Gavin n Esler explores how the Labour Government tried to control the commanding heights of the economy, and its legacy for today. Producer Jane Ashley Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

Producer:
Jane Ashley

Michael Crick concludes his look at the small political societies societies who meet to debate contemporary issues. This week he joins the Primrose League in the affluent surroundings of London's St John's Wood. Producer Vicky Shepherd

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Crick
Producer:
Vicky Shepherd

John Wilson reassesses the influence of people who helped to make other people well known.

The millionaire editor of The Observer from 1948 to 1975 assembled what one critic called "the most intellectually dazzling stable of writers ever to grace a British newspaper," including George Orwell, Kenneth Tynan, Arthur Koestler and Michael Fravn. Donald Trelford, Anthony Howard and others discuss how the newspaper world Astor worked in compares with today's press.

Contributors

Presenter:
John Wilson
Interviewee:
Donald Trelford
Interviewee:
Anthony Howard
Producer:
Sally Spurring

By Corin Redgrave. The story ot a man with i prostate cancer His second treatment succeeds but leaves him impotent. Then a cheerful, religious nurse called
Lucy suggests to her sceptical patient a "third way".
Director Richard Wortley

Contributors

Unknown:
Corin Redgrave.
Director:
Richard Wortley
Jack:
Corin Redgrave
Myra:
Kika Markham
Onibeyo:
Howard Saddler
Lucy:
Aicha Kossoko
Helen:
Alison Pettitt
Archie:
Simon Treves
Denis:
Ian Masters

Stewart Henderson presents the problem-solving programme and helps to provide some answers to those intriguing questions from everyday life.
PHONE: [number removed] email:questions.questions@bbc.co.uk Producer Joanne Coombs

Contributors

Unknown:
Stewart Henderson
Producer:
Joanne Coombs

Mariella Frostru talks to Helen Dunmore about her new novel Mourning Ruby, a meditation on grief, and finds out more about the internationally-loved stories of the "wise fool ".Nasrudin.
Producer Ann Marie Cole Repeated from Sunday at4pm

Contributors

Talks:
Mariella Frostru
Unknown:
Helen Dunmore

Mating with a hungry female can be deadlyfor male spiders. Even with prevention tactics immobilising the female in silk threads, presenting herwith a beautifully-wrapped fly, or even biting off one of their own reproductive organs - in certain cannibalistic species the male is devoured after copulation. Join Quentin Cooper as he weaves his way through the web of spiders' sexual behaviour. Producer Martin Redfern

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
Martin Redfern

ByJaneAusten.
9: Fanny's stay with her family in Portsmouth is not the happy occasion she might have wished.
For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Jane Austen:
Amanda Root
Fanny:
Felicity Jones
Henry:
James Callis
Mrs Price:
Anastasia Hille
Mr Price:
Stephen Critchlow
William:
Richard Firth
Sam:
Leagh Conwell
Susan ':
Clare Corbett
Mary:
Susan Lynch
Edmund:
Benedict Cumberbatch
Lady Bertram/Rebecca:
Uza Sadovy

Sheep farmer Ken Wild lives 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 0' Donoghue. Music by Robert Melotti , Nick Hughes and Andy Wild Producer Laurence Grissell

Contributors

Unknown:
Ken Wild
Music By:
Robert Melotti
Music By:
Nick Hughes
Producer:
Laurence Grissell

Million-Dollar Jet. American high-tech entrepreneur Vern Raburn wants to revolutionise travel by building a tiny jet plane selling for less than$lm. Peter Day reports on the sky-high ambitions of the new plane makers and the doubts that may bring Vern and his rivals down to earth.
Editor Stephen Chilcott Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Vern Raburn
Unknown:
Peter Day
Editor:
Stephen Chilcott

Geoff Watts examines how drug delivery could be revolutionised with a tiny patch of microneedles on the skin. The syringe is impervious to heat, can be stored at length, is painlessly self-adminstered and looks set to transform treatment for many deadly diseases in developing countries.
Producer Beth Eastwood EMAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Watts
Producer:
Beth Eastwood

Another in a series of comedy dramas that tell a different story each week about people who are trapped either emotionally or physically. Written by and starring Mark and Daniel Maier. Producer Alex Walsh-Taylor

Contributors

Unknown:
Daniel Maier.
Producer:
Alex Walsh-Taylor

Somewhere. This Utopian song, that yearns for a betterworld in which there is no prejudice, was composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheimforthe 1957 musical West SideStory. ProducerLucyLunt

Contributors

Composed By:
Leonard Bernstein
Unknown:
Stephen Sondheimforthe

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