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With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton
7.20 Yesterday in Parliament With David Wilby.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Dr Jeevan Singh Deol.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Edward Stourton
Unknown:
David Wilby.
Unknown:
Dr Jeevan Singh Deol.

Sandi Toksvig presents more adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.
Producers Kevin Dawson and Torquil MacLeod
PHONE: [number removed] email: excess.baggage@obc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandi Toksvig
Producers:
Kevin Dawson
Producers:
Torquil MacLeod

Newseries 1/3. Julian Petiffertells the story of the unsung heroes of the conservation movement. In postwar Britain the priority was to feed the nation from the land and to reconstruct industrial development. Only a few pioneers questioned the way progress was changing the landscape. But by the end ofthel950s a shadow was being cast across the countryside and, for those who looked, catastrophe was looming. Producer Adam Fowler

Contributors

Unknown:
Julian Petiffertells
Producer:
Adam Fowler

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Southampton puts questions on issues of the week
Panellists include writer Tariq Ali and shadow secretary of state for culture and the media, Julie Kirkbride. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Chairman:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Panellist:
Tariq Ali
Panellist:
Julie Kirkbride

By Lisa Holdsworth. A student at a university freshers' disco dies aftertakingtwo Ecstasy tablets. Detective Inspector Sarah Tully is shocked to find the source of the drug. Clare Corbett
Producer/Director Pauline Hams

Contributors

Unknown:
Lisa Holdsworth.
Unknown:
Sarah Tully
Unknown:
Clare Corbett
Director:
Pauline Hams
Dl Tully:
Lesley Sharp
DCMooney:
Sam Kelly
Marty:
Andrew Tieman
Sian:
Helen Longworth
ProfPoyser:
Peter Marinker
Liz/Rachel:
Clare Corbett
MrsPoyser:
Rachel Atkins
DrRoundell/DJ:
Chris Moran
Adrian/Vicar:
Damian Lynch

Newseries 1/4. The Colditz Story. The first of four programmes exploring the truth behind film versions of history.
The Colditz Story. In the Second World War Colditz Castle was a high-security camp for those allied prisoners considered the greatest escape risk. But what was life like inside? Gerry Northam travels to Colditz Castle, interviews some former prisoners and theirguards, and looks at the legend of this notorious German PoWcamp. Producer John Byrne Adam Hart-Davis on Colditz: page 29

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerry Northam
Producer:
John Byrne
Producer:
Adam Hart-Davis

Lars von Trier 's controversial dark thriller Dogville, starring Nicole Kidman , caused a stir in Cannes last year. Jim White delves into this three-hour experiment with "a new Dogme formula". Plus a look at the documentary Osama, about the harshness of life under the Taliban, told through the eyes of a 12-year-old girl. Producer Jerome Weatherald

Contributors

Unknown:
Lars von Trier
Unknown:
Nicole Kidman
Unknown:
Jim White
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

Kate Mosse and her guests Don Guttenplan , Maev Kennedy and James Runcie discuss the cultural highlights of the week, including a theatrical adaptation of Milton's Paradise Lost atthe Bristol Old Vic and Something's Gotta Give, a new film starring Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton. Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Unknown:
Kate Mosse
Unknown:
Don Guttenplan
Unknown:
Maev Kennedy
Unknown:
James Runcie
Unknown:
Jack Nicholson
Unknown:
Diane Keaton.
Producer:
Fiona McLean

In the 1930s, thousands of American farmers fled theirdrought-ridden and Depression-ravaged homelands of Oklahoma and Arkansas for
California, where they hoped to find a better life.
What they did find was exploitation and more misery, as memorably chronicled by John Steinbeck in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. Two young academics recorded the stories and music of these all-American refugees, and it is their first-hand accounts of events that can be heard in this programme. Producer Jolyon Jenkins

Contributors

Unknown:
John Steinbeck
Producer:
Jolyon Jenkins

2/12. Dramatised by Martyn Wade from the novels of Anthony Trollope.
Two new characters arrive on the scene: Phineas Finn and Lady Laura.
Meanwhile, Lady Glencora has married Plantagenet Palliser, and Alice Vavasor, having broken her engagement to John Grey, is now engaged to her disreputable cousin George. But has either lady been true to her heart?
(Rptd from Sunday)

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Martyn Wade
Author:
Anthony Trollope.
Music By:
Elizabeth Parker
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Trollope:
David Troughton
Plantagenet Palliser:
Ben Miles
LadyGlencora:
Sophie Thompson
Laura:
Juliet Stevenson
Alice:
Anastasia Hille
George:
Adrian Lukis
Phineas:
Conleth Hill
Chiltern:
Scott Handy
Kennedy:
Kevin McMonagle
John:
Mark Bazeley
Burgo:
Bertie Carvel
Bonteen:
Ioan Meredith
Brentford:
John Rowe
Lady Monk:
Frances Jeater
Violet:
Jalml Barbakoff

Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which
Melanie Phillips , Ian Hargreaves , Professor Steven Rose and Michael Gove cross-examine witnesses who hold conflicting views on the moral complexities behind one of the week's news stories.
Producer David Coomes Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Melanie Phillips
Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves
Unknown:
Professor Steven Rose
Unknown:
Michael Gove
Producer:
David Coomes

Roger McGough presents an edition devoted to the verse of Rudyard Kipling , who is not only the author of the nation's favourite poem (If....) but also the most requested poet on the programme. With reader Bill Wallis. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Reader:
Bill Wallis.

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