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Miriam Margolyes appeals on behalf of ITDG, the Intermediate Technology Development Group. Donations: [address removed] Credit cards: [number removed] Producer Sally Flatman Rptd at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.28pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Miriam Margolyes
Producer:
Sally Flatman Rptd

From an escarpment over Glen Fruin on the west coast of Scotland, Ian Mackenzie and Lesley Orr MacDonald reflect on the Transfiguration. Producer Mo McCullough

Contributors

Unknown:
Glen Fruin
Unknown:
Ian MacKenzie
Unknown:
Lesley Orr MacDonald
Producer:
Mo McCullough

New series 1/6. In 1957 Britain conducted its first controversial hydrogen bomb tests on the remote
Christmas Island in the Pacific. Sue MacGregor reunites some of those who were involved, including the man who pressed the button to release the first megaton bomb. Producer Adam Fowler Repeated on Friday at 9am
Mushroom clouds and My Fair Lady: page 115 Alan Titchmarsh 's reunion fears: page 37

Contributors

Producer:
Adam Fowler
Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh

4/10 Panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham, with Paul Merton
Clement Freud, Tony Hawks and Charles Collingwood.
Repeated from Monday
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: Many selections ofjusta Minute are available On audio cassette from good retail outlets or from [address removed]Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Unknown:
Paul Merton
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Charles Collingwood

3/5 Alice's Annulment. In 1433 a woman foundseven female witnesses to testify in the church court at York Minsterthat her husband John was impotent. How the witnesses came to be so sure and what conclusions the judge drew from their certainty make the basis of a fascinating tale that reveals a great deal about women's s status in the Middle Ages. Presented by Mike Thomson. Producer Jane Ray

Contributors

Presented By:
Mike Thomson.
Producer:
Jane Ray

Matthew Biggs , Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer gardening questions posed by Norfolk gardeners.
With Gardening Weather Forecast. Chaired by Gill Pyrah.
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: A specially recorded edition of Gardeners' Question Time, featuring regular team members is available on audio cassette and CD from retail outlets or from www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Biggs
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Gill Pyrah

2/5 A series in which people tell the stories of their favourite beaches and why they do like to be beside the seaside Theatre director Paulette Randall remembers her childhood outings from London to the village of Dymchurch on the Kent coast.

Contributors

Director:
Paulette Randall
Producer:
Jane Greenwood

A sensual and supremely controlled love story, written by Francoise Sagan, set in Paris in the 1950s. When Dominique meets her boyfriend's married uncle, mutual attraction soon leads to an intense affair.
Dramatised by Lavinia Murray.

(Repeated on Saturday at 9pm)

Contributors

Author:
Francoise Sagan
Dramatised by:
Lavinia Murray.
Director:
Claudine Toutoungi
Dominique:
Kate Maberly
Luc:
Robert Glenister
Bertrand:
Carl Prekopp
Francoise:
Adjoa Andoh
Catherine:
Katherine Parkinson
Marthe:
Joanna McCallum
Pierre:
John Rowe

Maev Kennedy talks to bestselling writers Peter Ackroyd and Justin Cartwright about their new novels and explores the work of Nobel Prize-winner Jose Saramago. Producer Sally Spurring Repeated on Thursday at 4pm
September Bookclub: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Contributors

Talks:
Maev Kennedy
Unknown:
Peter Ackroyd
Unknown:
Justin Cartwright
Unknown:
Jose Saramago.
Unknown:
Paul Auster

5/5. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Peggy Reynolds explores WB Yeats's poem, best known for its last line, "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." It's a journey of myth and magic, spirituality and romantic love.
Producer Hannah Andrassy Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

Contributors

Producer:
Hannah Andrassy

As companies wrestle with deficits in their pension funds, shareholders and trustees are up in arms and workers are threatening to strike. Michael Robinson asks why pensions are now the front line in the battle for financial security. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Robinson

Newseries 1/3. The novelist Beryl Bainbridge is the first of three writers who compose a letter to their younger selves. She writes a letter to the younger version of herself who appeared in her early novel Harriet Said.
Producer Erin Riley Repeated Saturaay 5.45am and 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Beryl Bainbridge
Unknown:
Harriet Said.
Producer:
Erin Riley

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

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Bolton

3/6. John Waite exposes the hidden death toll and the reasons behind it at Catterick, North Yorkshire -
Europe's largest army barracks. One weekend in April 2000, 20-year-old Allan Sharpies visited his family and fiancee before returning to the army life he loved at Catterick Barracks. Within 24 hours he was dead, apparently having Shot himself. Shortened repeat from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
John Waite
Unknown:
Allan Sharpies

5/9. Protecting Privacy. New technologies -everything from camera phones to internet shopping - link people in liberating ways. They also threaten our personal privacy. Frances Cairncross explores the new boundary between public and private life. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances Cairncross

Mark D'Arcy previews the week's political events.
10.45 The Gallic Way
1/3. Allan Little , the BBC's Paris correspondent, explores the political culture of France.
Producer Terry Dignan The Gallic Way repeated on Wednesday at 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark D'Arcy
Unknown:
Allan Little
Producer:
Terry Dignan

While at Auschwitz, the violinist Alma Rose transformed a group of female musicians into an orchestra, saving them from the gas chambers. Alyn Shipton looks at her life, her death, and the misrepresentation of her character in Fania Fenelon 's book The Musicians of Auschwitz. Producer Paul Evans

Contributors

Violinist:
Alma Rose
Unknown:
Alyn Shipton
Unknown:
Fania Fenelon
Producer:
Paul Evans

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