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ICC Champions Trophy Indiav Pakistan
From Edgbaiton. With commentary by Jonathan Agnew ,
Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Henry Blofeld , and expert analysis from Vic Marks and Mike Selvey.
Including News at 2.20pm.
Producer Peter Baxter _ *Approximate time

Contributors

Commentary By:
Jonathan Agnew
Commentary By:
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Commentary By:
Henry Blofeld
Unknown:
Vic Marks
Unknown:
Mike Selvey.
Producer:
Peter Baxter

9/10. With Paul Merton , Clement Freud , Steve Frost and Victor Spinetti. From the Grand Theatre in Swansea. Chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Merton
Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Steve Frost
Unknown:
Victor Spinetti.
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons.

Bunny Guinness, Matthew Biggs and John Cushnie answer questions sent in by post. Eric Robson is in the chai r And at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast. Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened 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 or from www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Biggs
Unknown:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Eric Robson
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

To mark the centenary of Graham Greene birth, a dramatisation of this novella. In a prison in occupied France, one man in everyten is to be shot. Chavel, a wealthy lawyer, trades his life for all he possesses. But the "bargain" is to have repercussions he could never have imagined. Dramatised by Neville Teller . Director Marion Nancarrow Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Greene
Dramatised By:
Neville Teller
Director:
Marion Nancarrow
Chavel:
Nathaniel Parker
Therese:
Indira Varma
Carosse:
David Swift
Michek/Sharführer:
Tom George
Mme Mangeot:
Elizabeth Bell
Mayor/Roche:
Jon Glover
Trinchart/Jules/Priest:
Philip Fox
Voison:
Gerard McDermott
Pierre/SS officer:
Sean Baker

Roddy Doyle tal ks to Maev Kennedy about the second novel in a planned trilogy Oh, Play That Thing, in which the picaresque adventures of Henry Smart continue. Plus a reader's guide to the work of Philip Roth. Producer Erin Riley Repeated on Thursday at 4pm October Bookclub: How the Dead Live by Will Self

Contributors

Unknown:
Roddy Doyle
Unknown:
Maev Kennedy
Unknown:
Philip Roth.
Producer:
Erin Riley

6/6. Ian McMillan meets people who turn to poetry at key moments in their lives. Baby-Naming Ceremony. McMillan travels to Dartmoor to attend the humanist naming ceremony Lou and Steve devised fortheir daughter, Imogen, with the celebrant, Alison Orchard. Producer Susan Roberts Repeated Sat 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian McMillan
Unknown:
Alison Orchard.
Producer:
Susan Roberts

1/5. The Mombasa Mail Flag. McDonnell, an expatriate farmer in Kenya, dreams of finally impressing his statesman father. By Sara Wheeler , read by Rupert Graves. Producer Gaynor Macfarlane

Contributors

Unknown:
Sara Wheeler
Read By:
Rupert Graves.
Producer:
Gaynor MacFarlane

2/9. Keep on Working. Companies with an ageing workforce and workers with pension problems are facing afuture in which people will have to work well into what has hitherto been regarded as a pensionable age. Peter Day asks how organisations will motivate their ageing workforces. Repeated from Thursday

Andrew Rawnsley sets the scene at the Liberal Democrat Party conference in Bournemouth.
10.45 The New Powers That Be
2/3. There are more than 100 regulators in the UK. But how much do we know about them? Dinah Lammiman meets the Children's Commissioner for Wales to find out what exactly that job entails.
Editor Terry Dignan The New Powers That Be repeatedWednesday8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley
Unknown:
Dinah Lammiman
Editor:
Terry Dignan

Writer Fay Weldon and Dame Ruth Deech , a BBC governor, talk to Sue MacGregor about theirfavourite paperbacks, which include a classic science fantasy and a very modern story about working motherhood. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Fay Weldon
Unknown:
Dame Ruth Deech
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor

In the 1930s, Canadian musician Colin McPhee became entranced by the traditional music of Bali: the gamelan. He was moved by the poverty that surrounded him to buy instruments forthe children of the village where he lived. Maria Bakkalapulo revisits the island to talk to the original Balinese child musicians, now in their 70s.
She also talks to Philip Glass about the effect McPhee's obsession with the gamelan has had on his own Compositions. Producer Sara Jane Hall

Contributors

Musician:
Colin McPhee
Unknown:
Maria Bakkalapulo
Producer:
Sara Jane Hall

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