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Virginia McKenna presents an appeal on behalf of Elizabeth FitzRoy Support , acharity that cares for people with learning disabilities.
Donations: Elizabeth FitzRoy Support , [address removed] Credit Cards [number removed] Producer Sally Ratman Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.28pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Fitzroy Support
Unknown:
Elizabeth Fitzroy Support
Producer:
Sally Ratman

From St George's Parish Church, Beckenham. Led by the Bishop of Tonbridge the Rt Rev
Dr Brian Castle , and the Rev Malcolm Hancock. With music from international choirs. Director of music
Nigel Groome. PoducerClairJaquiss

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Brian Castle
Unknown:
Malcolm Hancock.
Music:
Nigel Groome.

Nicholas Parsons continues to host the most pernickety of panel games with a programme from London. With guests Clement Freud, Tony Hawks, Ross Noble and Graham Norton. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Ross Noble
Unknown:
Graham Norton.

Another chance to hear three programmes charting a brave experiment in education -the launch of a new secondary school on the site of a failing one. Sats exams and an Ofsted inspection loom, while the original intake of 11-year-olds must also cope withbecomingteenagers. Producer Sue Mitchell

Contributors

Producer:
Sue Mitchell

Bob Flowerdew , John Cushnie and Bunny Guinness answer questions posed by gardeners in Buckinghamshire. Sue Cook is in the chair.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened at 3pm
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: A specially recorded edition of Gardeners, Question Time is available on audio cassette and CD from good retail outlets or from www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
John Cushnie
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

3/3. By John Bunyan. Christian is coming to the end of his eventful journey to the Celestial City but, as he gets closer to his destination, he strays from the right path and trespasses on to land belonging to Giant Despair.
Rptd on Saturday

Contributors

Music by:
David Chilton
Director:
Pam Fraser Solomon
Dramatised by:
Brian Sibley
Bunyan:
Anton Rodgers
Christian:
Neil Dudgeon
Evangelist:
Alec McCowen
Beelzebub:
Don Warrington
Faithful:
Graham Crowden
Elizabeth:
Caroline Lee Johnson
The jailer:
Ioan Meredith
The judge:
Derek Waring
Hopeful:
Paul J Metford
Giant Despair:
Stephen Thorne
Mrs Despair:
Frances Jeater
Knowledge:
Chris Moran
Sincere:
Philip Fox
Experience:
Damian Lynch
Ignorance:
Rachel Atkins
False-Confidence:
Declan Wilson
Deceiver:
Cherie Taylor-Battiste
Angels:
Jaimi Barbakoff
Angels:
Lydia Leonard

Mariella Frostrup talks to Neil Cross about his new book Always the Sun. She also asks when the aeroplane first entered the world of fiction. Producer Hilary Dunn Repeated on Thursday

Contributors

Talks:
Mariella Frostrup
Unknown:
Neil Cross
Producer:
Hilary Dunn

Roger McGough presents the seasonal poem The EveofSt Agnes by John Keats ; a story of love, lust and legend that takes place over the course of a freezing January night, long ago. Read by Catherine Harvey. Producer Paul Dodgson Repeated on Saturday

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
John Keats
Read By:
Catherine Harvey.
Producer:
Paul Dodgson

1/2. As Britain emerges from the hottest year on record, Gerry Northam looks at the heated politics that underlie the science of climate change. This week, the fights in Washington over which scientists tobelieve. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerry Northam

Children's magazine programme with Barney Harwood. Plus the first episode of Is There Life In
OtherHeads? by Michael Lawrence , featuring Keith Allen , Morwenna Banks and Nigel Greaves. Producer Johnny Leagas

Contributors

Unknown:
Barney Harwood.
Unknown:
Michael Lawrence
Unknown:
Keith Allen
Unknown:
Nigel Greaves.
Producer:
Johnny Leagas

Another chance to hear this short story by William Trevor. The Geraghtys are two middle-aged sisters and members of the Legion of Mary - famed for their tireless charitable works - who sit with the dying. But the visit they are about to undertake turns out to be a very unusual one. Read by Sorcha Cusack. Producer Gemma McMullan

Contributors

Story By:
William Trevor.
Read By:
Sorcha Cusack.
Producer:
Gemma McMullan

Roger Bolton with listeners' views and opinions on BBC radio programmes and policy.
ADDRESS: Feedback. PO Box 2100. London W1A 1QT. Fax: [number removed]. Phone: [number removed] email: feedback@bbc.co.uk Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Bolton

7/8. Ganache! Montelimar! Montezuma! Do such words make your taste buds tingle? They may well do if you love chocolate - or xocoatl, as the bean that Christopher Columbus was given in 1502was called by the Nicaraguans. Plus the fast-talking, wise-cracking, horn-tooting words of the Marx Brothers as fans everywhere celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the brothers' writer, SJ Perelman. Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Columbus

Fast Boat to China. A huge demand for vessel capacity has increased dramatically the cost of shipping. It's a sign of the way world trade is changing before our eyes, says presenter Peter Day , and the implications are profound forjobs, diplomacy and the way the world works. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Day

Andrew Rawnsley previews the new week's political events. Including at 10.45 In the Think-Tanks
New series 1/3. Dennis Sewell explores the world of think-tanks that focus on Europe.
Editor John Evans In the Think-Tanks Repeated Wednesday 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley
Unknown:
Dennis Sewell
Editor:
John Evans

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