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With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament With Mark D'Arcy.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Canon David Winter.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
James Naughtie
Unknown:
Edward Stourton.
Unknown:
Mark D'Arcy.

Crystal City is a small town in the Texan scrubland. It was here during the Second World War that German immigrants were interned, classified as enemy aliens. Nigel Wrench takes a journey to the camp to hear the stories of the former internees and asks why they are now fighting for an apology from the US government.

Contributors

Presenter:
Nigel Wrench
Producer:
Jo Meek

5/6. Sue Rodwell's dramatisations of AJ Cronin 's comic stories, starring John Gordon-Sinclair .

An exotic face from Dr Finlay's past brings social tensions to the boil in Levenford.

Contributors

Author:
AJ Cronin
Dramatised by:
Sue Rodwell
Producer:
Viv Beeby
Dr Finlay:
John Gordon-Sinclair
Dr Cameron:
Brian Pettifer
Janet:
Katy Murphy
Peggy:
Tracy Wiles
John:
Paul Young
Mrs Jope-Smith:
Siobhan Redmond
Hasan:
Kulvinder Ghir

4/4. Surrounded bythedrumming and dancing of an ancient street festival, the landscape detectives uncoverthe land-lines running through the history of Combe Martin in North Devon. With Brett Westwood.
Producer Grant Sonnex

Contributors

Unknown:
Brett Westwood.

Tracing the lifelong correspondence of the staid, dutiful lawyer Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and the lively, unstable artist Melissa Gardner. The story of their bittersweet relationship gradually unfolds from what is said - and what is left unsaid - in their letters. Written by AR Gurney.
Director Anastasia Tolstoy

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Makepeace
Artist:
Melissa Gardner.
Director:
Anastasia Tolstoy
Andrew:
Kyle MacLachlan
Melissa:
Lorelei King

1/9. Antibiotics. Antibiotic use in the UK is falling, but is it too little too late? We are already dealing with the legacy of decades of overuse.
Dr Mark Porter asks if we should be shelving antibiotics for probiotics and, if so, whether eating yogurt is the best way to boost the immune system. Repeated from yesterday at 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Mark Porter

1/4. Chantal's biological clock is ticking.
She desperately needs to find a mate. Pamela remembers that feeling only too well. So does Merv and he wishes he didn't. But for Chantal the huntfor a suitable piece oftrouser is on. Written by and starring Mervyn Stutter , with Lill Roughley , John Challis and Tracy-Ann Oberman. Producer Mario Stylianides

Contributors

Unknown:
Mervyn Stutter
Unknown:
Lill Roughley
Unknown:
John Challis
Unknown:
Tracy-Ann OBErman.
Producer:
Mario Stylianides

New series 1/5. In this year's lectures, Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Wole Soyinka argues that we are living in a new climate of fear and examines the challenge this presents to democracy. The Changing Mask of Fear. The anonymous power of the terrorist over the destiny of others. From the Royal Institution, London. Repeated on Saturday at 10.15pm. The diet of power in a climate of fear: page 123

Contributors

Lecturer:
Wole Soyinka
Presenter:
Sue Lawley
Producer:
Sheila Cook

New series 1/3. Shaun Ley considers political parties that were short-lived but made an impact. He discusses Common Wealth, a party that won by-elections on a radical programme during the Second World War. With contributions from the party's last MP Ernest Millington , Tony Benn and former Common Wealth supporters.
Producer Rob Shepherd Repeated from Sunday at 10.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Shaun Ley
Unknown:
Ernest Millington
Unknown:
Tony Benn
Producer:
Rob Shepherd

They make up nearly a fifth of all life on the planet and live in some of the most extreme habitats on Earth and yet most people have never heard of the archaea. These microscopic organisms are found in the craters of volcanoes, in hot, sulphurous springs and even underthe ice sheets of Antarctica. Peter Evans investigates these most unusual life forms and talks to the scientists who think they may answer some fundamental scientific mysteries.
Could the archaea tell us what life on other planets might look like, or even uncoverthe causes of terrible and little-understood diseases? Producer Alexandra Feachem

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Evans
Producer:
Alexandra Feachem

1/6. Ask the Family meets The Simpsons in a new comedy panel game, celebrating family life. Chaired by Graeme Garden. With Arthur Smith, Claire Skinner, Kevin Eldon and Linda Smith. Producer Lucy Armitage

Contributors

Unknown:
Graeme Garden.
Unknown:
Arthur Smith
Unknown:
Claire Skinner
Unknown:
Kevin Eldon
Unknown:
Linda Smith.
Producer:
Lucy Armitage

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