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With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Rhidian Brook.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah Montague
Unknown:
James Naughtie.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
Rhidian Brook.

3/4. Francis Wheen looks at manias, delusions and panics over the centuries. The masses may be gullible but usually there is someone intelligent but misguided behind each scare - whether it be the prominent astrophysicist who predicted the imminent destruction of Los Angeles or the top economist who told us the stock market would carry on booming forever.

Contributors

Presenter:
Francis Wheen
Producer:
Jolyon Jenkins

4/8 Simon Hoggart introduces the topical comedy panel game with the help of Alan Coren , Andy Hamilton , Jeremy Hardy and Francis Wheen. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Introduces:
Simon Hoggart
Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Andy Hamilton
Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy
Unknown:
Francis Wheen.

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience at Strode's College, Egham, puts questions on the issues of the week. The panellists include the Secretary of State for Transport, Alistair Darling , former
Conservative cabinet minister Lord Heseltine; Liz Lynne , the Liberal Democrat MEP; and Nigel Farage , leader of the UK Independence Party. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Alistair Darling
Unknown:
Liz Lynne
Leader:
Nigel Farage

Take a walk with any naturalist and you will be amazed by their powers of perception. It may seem impressive but do naturalists really have superhuman senses or is it all a trick of perception? Brett Westwood , master of this dark art. is decoded by perception guru Richard Gregory and given some tests to do. Could we all learn to find a beetle in the haystack? Producer Caroline Williams

Contributors

Unknown:
Brett Westwood
Unknown:
Richard Gregory
Producer:
Caroline Williams

As Bon Voyage, a new French farce set at the start of the Second World War, makes its way to our shores, Jim White profiles the career of its leading man, perhaps one of cinema's most ungainly sex symbols, Gerard Depardieu. And, with the upcoming release of Meg Ryan 's new film Against the Ropes, based on the true story of Jackie Kallen , a Jewish woman from Detroit who went onto become a big-time boxing manager, there's a look through the boxing films archive. Producer Mohini Patel

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim White
Unknown:
Gerard Depardieu.
Unknown:
Meg Ryan
Unknown:
Jackie Kallen
Producer:
Mohini Patel

Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Iwona Blazwick ,
Kevin Jackson and Cahal Dallat discuss the cultural highlights of the Week. Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Unknown:
Iwona Blazwick
Unknown:
Kevin Jackson
Unknown:
Cahal Dallat
Producer:
Fiona McLean

1/3 Ordained in Hong Kong in 1971, the Rev Dr Joyce Bennett made history as the first English woman priest in the Anglican Communion. These are excerpts from some of the weekly letters she sent home for more than 30 years to her parents. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Joyce Bennett

Gardeners' Question Time is one of the crown jewels of Radio 4. For many of the network's listeners the weekend would not be the same without GQT joining the family for Sunday lunch. For more than 50 years the programme has toured the UK, dispensing horticultural wit and wisdom. Here, in an updated repeat of a programme first broadcast in 2000, Eric Robson looks back over more than half a century of gardening advice. The programme chronicles not only the changes in our gardens but in our society.
It took 30 years for a woman to be accepted on the panel - today some editions of the programme feature an all-female team of experts and, more recently, GQT has even been chaired by women. What would Fred Loades , Bill Sowerbutts and Professor Alan Gemmel have made Of that? Producer Trevor Taylor

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Robson
Unknown:
Fred Loades
Unknown:
Bill Sowerbutts
Unknown:
Professor Alan Gemmel
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

1/2. By Robert Louis Stevenson , dramatised by Chris Dolan. Two brothers engage in a bitter struggle over money, power and love in this dark and dramatic adventure story set in 18th-century Scotland and America. Afterthe Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the Master flees Scotland for a life of piracy, buried treasure and murder.
Director Bruce Young Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Author:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised By:
Chris Dolan.
James:
David Rintoul
Henry:
Liam Brennan
Lord Durrisdeer:
Tom Fleming
Ephraim:
John Shedden
Alison:
Vicki Liddelle
Chevalier Burke:
Patrick Moy
Cpt Teach:
John Kazek
Dutton:
Simon Tait
Jess:
Lesley Hart

5/5. 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.
I Am Alright, You Are Dead. The mantra of the most dangerous being Earth - the fanatic. From Emory
University, Atlanta, Georgia. Presented by Sue Lawley . Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Wole Soyinka
Presented By:
Sue Lawley

2/2 Asian poet Roshan Doug looks at classical
Chinese poetry - a literary form with strict rules of rhythm rhyme and theme - and sees how this structure reflected the ordered society of the Chinese dynasties. He finds out that being a good poet was a way for people to move up the social ladder in Imperial times. He also examines the collapse of the classical form and its re-emergence in contemporary Chinese society. With poetry from Chinese writers and Roshan Doug. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Roshan Doug
Unknown:
Roshan Doug.

5/5. Les Pompes Funèbres. Kate has been prepared for the death of her father but not for his dying in France. How does one display grief in a foreign language?
Written by Susie Maguire and read by Gayanne Potter. producer Lu Kemp

Contributors

Written By:
Susie Maguire
Read By:
Gayanne Potter.
Producer:
Lu Kemp

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More