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Sri Lanka v England
The First Test at Galle. Commentary on the fifth and final day's play by Jonathan Agnew , John Murray ,
Jonny Saunders and Roshan Abbeysinghe. Including Newsat6.30am. * Approximate time
__ Producer Peter Baxter * Approximate time

Contributors

Play By:
Jonathan Agnew
Play By:
John Murray
Play By:
Jonny Saunders
Play By:
Roshan Abbeysinghe.
Producer:
Peter Baxter

The adventures, frustrations andjoys of travel are explored by presenter Sandi Toksvig. Producers Kevin Dawson and Torquil MacLeod PHONE: [number removed] email: excess.baggage@bbc.co,uk

Contributors

Presenter:
Sandi Toksvig.
Producers:
Kevin Dawson
Producers:
Torquil MacLeod

New series 1: 1940. Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier tied the knot in a year filled with snatched happiness, short engagements and sudden partings. Couples who married in 1940 describe experiences such as spending their wedding night sitting against a beer barrel in a cellar while the bombs dropped around them. Producer Sara Conkey

Contributors

Unknown:
Vivien Leigh
Unknown:
Laurence Olivier
Producer:
Sara Conkey

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Leeds puts questions on issues of the week to a panel that includes the Home Secretary
David Blunkett and the Bishop of Birmingham, the Right Rev Dr John Sentamu. Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
David Blunkett
Unknown:
Dr John Sentamu.

By Michael Crompton, adapted in four parts by Molly Lefebure from the book, and starring Emily Bruni and Kevin Whately.
Spring 1942: Molly continues her work as the assistant to the Home Office pathologist, Hardcastle. The stresses of wartime life begin to affect them both and the discovery of a body on an American army base brings new dilemmas for both of them
Director John Dove (R)

Contributors

Author:
Michael Crompton
Adapted by:
Molly Lefebure
Director:
John Dove
Molly:
Emily Bruni
Hardcastle:
Kevin Whately
Mrs B:
Mary MacLeod
Pte Feron:
Joseph May
Chief Insp Webb:
John Hartley
Colonel Allan:
William Roberts
Cpt Richardson:
Stuart Milligan
McNab:
Jonathan Hackett

The steel drum has been played on the streets of Britain for the last 50 years. How did it get here? Sterling Betancourt MBE tells a story that leads from the streets of Port of Spain in Trinidad to Notting Hill - via Buckingham Palace.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sterling Betancourt
Producer:
Dan Shepherd

Touching the Void by Kevin Macdonald is the true story of Joe Simpson and his mountaineering partner, whose attempt to scale the Suila Grande in the Andes almost proved fatal. Jim White talks about this film and other new releases this week. Producer Mohini Patel

Contributors

Unknown:
Kevin MacDonald
Unknown:
Joe Simpson
Unknown:
Suila Grande
Talks:
Jim White
Producer:
Mohini Patel

A woman's place is in the home, so they say. But it's also on the barricades when it comes to demanding decent housing. Fiona Ross traces the history and evolution of Glasgow's council housing, from the remarkable women who fought in the 1915 Rent Strikes, and from those who continued to fight in the 1950s to improve conditions on the city's giant housing estates, to those who are still in the vanguard of change today. Producer Heather Fraser

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Ross
Producer:
Heather Fraser

By John Wyndham. The first instalment of Dan Rebellato 's two-part dramatisation of the gripping science-fiction classic about alien impregnation overturning the prim and proper world of a sleepy English village. Starring Bill Nighy and Sarah Parish.
Director Polly Thomas Music by Chris Madin Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
John Wyndham.
Unknown:
Dan Rebellato
Unknown:
Bill Nighy
Unknown:
Sarah Parish.
Director:
Polly Thomas
Music By:
Chris Madin
Richard:
Bill Nighy
Janet:
Sarah Parish
Zellaby:
Clive Merrison
Alan:
Nicholas R Bailey
Ferelleyn:
Katherine Tozer
Dr Willers:
Mark Chatterton
Mrs Willers:
Barbara Marten
Rev Leebody:
Malcolm Raeburn
Miss Lamb:
Christine Brennan
Miss Ogle:
Rebecca Bridle

Michael Buerk chairs another debate in which Ian Hargreaves , Steven Rose , Melanie Philips and Claire Fox cross-examine witnesses with conflicting views. Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves
Unknown:
Steven Rose
Unknown:
Melanie Philips
Unknown:
Claire Fox

Sufism is a mystical branch of the Muslim religion which, 800 years ago, produced one of its greatest poets: Rumi, the founder of the whirling dervishes. Judith Palmer reports from a meeting of the Rumi Society held in Paddington Library-the unlikely setting for an evening of transcendental music, dance and poetry, featuring Vida Kashizadeh. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Judith Palmer
Unknown:
Vida Kashizadeh.

A series of short stories inspired by words from the more obscure corners of the Oxford English Dictionary. 2: Kenosis by Chris Dolan , read by Mary Riggans. "The two men used to have long conversations. They agreed to be a father was to be Christ-like. To live up to God's highest expectations and to represent His authority Within the home." Producer David Jackson Young (R)

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Dolan
Read By:
Mary Riggans.
Producer:
David Jackson Young

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