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New series 1/4. The Bouncing Bog. BrettWestwood visits Chartley Moss in Staffordshire, a wetland area consisting of a three-metre raft of peat floating on an underground lake - one of the few examples in this Country of a "schwingmoor". Producer Sheena Duncan

Contributors

Unknown:
Chartley Moss
Producer:
Sheena Duncan

Janette Scott, daughter of Thora Hird, appeals on behalf of the John Grooms charity.
Donations: [address removed]Credit cards: [number removed]
Producer Sally Ratman
Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.28pm FM

Contributors

Unknown:
Janette Scott
Unknown:
Thora Hird
Unknown:
John Grooms
Producer:
Sally Ratman

Run the Straight Race. A service to celebrate the Olympic Games, live from the First Greek Evangelical Church in Athens, led by Jonathan Edwards.
Preacher Pastor Panagiotis Kantartzis. Music director Noel TredinniCk. Producer Philip Billson

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Edwards.
Unknown:
Panagiotis Kantartzis.
Director:
Noel Tredinnick.
Producer:
Philip Billson

2/6. On 11 November 1992 the Church of England took the historic decision to allow women to be ordained as priests. Sue MacGregor reunites some of the leading campaigners involved, together with the Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe , who opposed women's ordination and left the Church of England on the very same day. Producer Louise Adamson at 9am

Contributors

Unknown:
Ann Widdecombe
Producer:
Louise Adamson

5/10. Nicholas Parsons returns to the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, where the panellists are Paul Merton , Clement Freud , Tony Hawks and Charles Collingwood. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

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

4/5. The Day They Made It Rain. Some said that the flood of 1952 that killed 34 people in Lynmouth, Devon, was the result of rains that weren entirely natural and that it was due to "cloud seeding". Mike Thomson investigates. Producers Jane Ray and Helen Weinstein

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Thomson
Producers:
Jane Ray
Producers:
Helen Weinstein

Bob Flowerdew , Bunny Guinness and John Cushnie answer questions posed by Merseyside gardeners. Eric Robson is in the chair. With Gardening Weather Forecast. Producer Trevor Taylor at 3pm 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 orfrom www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Eric Robson
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

1/2. Heinrich Mann's novel is about the rise and fall of Andrew Zumsee, an innocent but self-confident young poet from the provinces, as he attempts to make a name for himself in Berlin society. Dramatised by Patricia Hannah. Director David Jackson Young

Contributors

Unknown:
Heinrich Mann
Unknown:
Andrew Zumsee
Dramatised By:
Patricia Hannah.
Director:
David Jackson
Andrew:
John Kielty
Adelheid:
Joanna Tope
Louis:
John Shedden
Karl:
Simon Tart
Dr Bedeiner:
Ralph Rlach
Lizzi:
Vivienne Dixon
Diederich:
Gregor Powrie
Friederich:
Simon Donaldson
Asta:
Lucy Paterson
Heinrich Mann:
James Bryce

Louise Welsh , author of The Cutting Room, talks to Maev Kennedy about her new novel based on the death of the playwright Christopher Marlowe , Tamburlaine Must Die. Producer Sally Spurring Repeated on Thursday at 4pm September Bookclub: The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Contributors

Unknown:
Louise Welsh
Unknown:
Maev Kennedy
Unknown:
Christopher Marlowe
Unknown:
Paul Auster

Newseries 1/6. Ian McMillan travels around the country, meeting ordinary people who turn to poetry for inspiration or solace at key moments in their lives. Ddby Remembrance. McMillan speaks to the Rev Sarah Brewerton , a minister who turned to poetry as a way of expressing her grief after her baby died at 28 weeks. Producer Liz Leonard Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm Ian McMillan on the power of poetry: page 115

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McMillan
Unknown:
Sarah Brewerton
Producer:
Liz Leonard
Unknown:
Ian McMillan

Fifty years ago Billy Graham 's evangelical crusade drew more than two million people to London's Harringay Arena. Jane Little sets out to discover how Graham's message and his followers have fared since then. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Billy Graham
Unknown:
Harringay Arena.
Unknown:
Jane Little

Barney Harwood visits RAF Lyneham this week. The new story, The Princess Diaries, is by Meg Cabot and read by Theresa Gallagher. Producer Jane Chambers

Contributors

Unknown:
Barney Harwood
Unknown:
Meg Cabot
Read By:
Theresa Gallagher.

John Beesley previews the week's political events.
10.45 The Gallic Way
2/3. The BBC's Paris correspondent, Allan Little , explores the political culture Of France. Producer Jane Beresford
Producer Terry Dignan The Gallic Way repeated on Wednesday at 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
John Beesley
Unknown:
Allan Little
Producer:
Jane Beresford
Producer:
Terry Dignan

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