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Twenty-five years after we learnt to love that strange new word, Walkman, Steve Punt meets those who simply wouldn't leave home without their music, and revisits the case of the "headphone leakage martyr", briefly the scourge of the tabloids, who was hit with the full force of the law for refusing to turn his personal stereo down. Producer Laurence Grissell

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Punt
Producer:
Laurence Grissell

1/8. The finest weekly topical radio comedy panel game, chaired by Simon Hoggart , with Andy Hamilton , Jeremy Hardy , Linda Smith and a special guest. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Unknown:
Andy Hamilton
Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy
Unknown:
Linda Smith

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion at the Minster School, Southwell. Panellists include the Secretary of State for Defence, Geoff Hoon ; shadow Foreign
Secretary, Michael Ancram ; and the historian Professor Peter Hennessey. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Geoff Hoon
Unknown:
Michael Ancram
Unknown:
Peter Hennessey.

By Nicholas Blake. Dramatised for radio by Michael Bakewell.
"It's about time that squirt Wemyss was suppressed. Pedantic Percy's little pet is getting above himself." Nobody liked the headmaster's nephew, but surely no one would actually murder him?
And boys of Hurstpierpoint College
Director Jane Morgan
(Nicholas Blake was a pseudonym of Cecil Day-Lewis, the subject of a radio documentary, C. Day-Lewis - Honest Dreams, tomorrow at 4.30pm)

Contributors

Author:
Nicholas Blake.
Dramatised by:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Jane Morgan
Narrator:
Gerard Murphy
Nigel:
Philip Franks
Michael:
Peter Acre
Percy:
David Collings
Hero:
Emma Gregory
Supt Armstrong:
Struan Rodger
Gadsby:
Steve Hodson
Wrench:
Colin Tierney
Sims:
Philip Fox
Tiverton:
Geoffrey Beevers
Griffin:
Jonathan Guy Lewis
Rosa:
Rosanna Mason
Smithers:
Daniel Draper
Stevens:
Edmund Singer-Kingsmith
Ponsonby:
Patrick Uddicoat

1/2. A look at the work of a team of nurses in inner-city
Birmingham as they care forfrail, sick and dying patients in their homes. A 65-year-old terminally ill cancer patient has asked to be discharged from his hospice because he wants to die at home. The nurses' task is to make the last few weeks of his life as comfortable as possible, but this means administering powerful pain-killing drugs - a problem since the Harold Shipman case. Producer Brian King

Contributors

Unknown:
Harold Shipman

Taking Lives is the latest in a long line of films perpetuating cinema's fascination with the serial killer, including The Silence of the Lambs, Monster and Henry: Portrait of a a Serial Killer. Jim White wonders whether it isn't time for film-makers to move on. Plus, silent-era blue movies from 1905 unearthed in a French attic.

Contributors

Presenter:
Jim White
Producer:
Jerome Weatherald

1/3. "Landscape takes the place in my life that religion occupies in others." Jim Crumley visits the first of three landscapes that are part of his belief system.
The Balgay. Dundee's other hill and the place where
Crumley grew up. "From its modest summit there was a 40-miles-wide swathe of river and firth and open sea, all the way to the Bell Rock lighthouse." Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Crumley

Matthew Parris dips into the archives in search of the golden days of family motoring and finds a long-gone world - despised by today's hi-spec four-wheel drive worshippers - of winding but empty roads, leather upholstery and saluting AA men; a time when ownership of an Austin Seven meant you were really someone. Producers Nick Patrick and Ivan Howlett
Alan Titchmarsh remembers the old jalopy: page 34

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Parris
Producers:
Nick Patrick
Producers:
Ivan Howlett
Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh

12/12. By Anthony Trollope , dramatised by Martyn Wade. At last there's a reconciliation within the Palliser family. Lady Glencora's independence of mind lives on through her children as they are forced to decide, as their mother did all those years ago, between love and duty.
Music by Elizabeth Parker Director Cherry Cookson Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Trollope
Dramatised By:
Martyn Wade.
Music By:
Elizabeth Parker
Music By:
Cherry Cookson
Trollope:
David Troughton I
Palliser:
Ben Miles I
MmeGoesler:
Stella Gonet I
Silverbridge:
Nicholas Boutton
Mary:
Rachael Stirling
Mabel:
Lydia Leonard
Lady Cantrip:
Frances Jeater
Frank:
Chris Moran
Popplecourt:
Crispin Bonham-Carter
MajorTifto:
Philip Fox

2/5. 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.
Power and Freedom. What motivates those who seek to supplant ourfreedom with fear? From the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Presented by Sue Lawley . Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Wole Soyinka
Presented By:
Sue Lawley

Ovid's poetry collection Amores was one of the scandalous literary successes of ancient Rome. But whywas the poet suddenly banished - and how did his banishment affect his writing? Introduced by Don Taylor and Jonathan Dryden Taylor. Readers Roger Allam and Mark Evans.
Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Introduced By:
Don Taylor
Introduced By:
Jonathan Dryden Taylor.
Readers:
Roger Allam
Readers:
Mark Evans.

2/5. Stories that take a wry look at that timeless fashion classic, the little black dress.
The Difference by Sian Preece , read by Aled Pugh.
Mark's band are given a shot at fame, and his younger sister is on hand to create their look. Producer Lu Kemp

Contributors

Unknown:
Sian Preece
Read By:
Aled Pugh.
Producer:
Lu Kemp

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