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With James Naughtie and Carolyn Quinn.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Angela Tilby.

Contributors

Unknown:
James Naughtie
Unknown:
Carolyn Quinn.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
Angela Tilby.

New series 1/42. Agenda-setting discussion with Andrew Marr. This week, Marr is joined by Nigella Lawson , who's been thinking about the role food plays in our lives, and by novelist William Boyd , who talks about the art of the short story. Also, journalist
Max Hastings on the forgotten stories of the Second World
War, and journalist David Rose on Guantanamo Bay. Producer Alice Feinstein Shortened repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Marr.
Unknown:
Nigella Lawson
Unknown:
William Boyd
Unknown:
Max Hastings
Unknown:
David Rose
Producer:
Alice Feinstein

2/3. Ashford in Kent is about to double in size, the biggest single development since Milton Keynes.
Kevin McCloud travels to Kent to see how the rural surroundings will be developed and what will happen to the people who live there. Producer Neil George

Contributors

Unknown:
Milton Keynes.
Unknown:
Kevin McCloud
Producer:
Neil George

2/4. The Overcoat. Akaky Akakyevich is a humble bureaucrat lost in the dismal ranks of the 19th-century Russian civil service. But when he buys a brand-new overcoat, things begin to look up. Comic plays by Jim Poyser , based on the shnrt stones by Nikolai Gogol.
Producer Susan Roberts

Contributors

Unknown:
Akaky Akakyevich
Unknown:
Jim Poyser
Unknown:
Nikolai Gogol.
Producer:
Susan Roberts
Akaky Akakyevich:
Stephen Moore
kabolokov:
Mark Chatterton
Denisov:
David Crellin
Borsov:
Russell Dlxon
Tamara:
Jo-Anne Knowles
Lizaveta:
Bright Forsyth
Radishev:
Malcolm Raebum

In 1914 the great campaigner for birth control,
Margaret Sanger , had a relationship with eminent
Fabian, Havelock Ellis. Using their letters and autobiographies, the play recreates that year and asks can history ever tell the truth? By Alison Joseph. can nistoryever ieu the truth?
Producer Marion Nancarrow

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Sanger
Unknown:
Havelock Ellis.
Unknown:
Alison Joseph.
Producer:
Marion Nancarrow
Margaret Sanger:
Briony Glassco
Havelock Ellis:
David Collings
Edith:
Richenda Carey
Comstock:
Gavin Muir
Mother 1:
Beth Chalmers
Mother2:
Alison Pettitt

1/5. A week of short stories from Ireland.
Gaeglers and the Greyhound by Walter Macken.
When local "entrepreneur" Gaeglers decides to buy a greyhound in the hope of making his fortune, things don't go according to plan at all. Read by David Kelly. Producer Heather Brennon

Contributors

Unknown:
Walter MacKen.
Read By:
David Kelly.
Producer:
Heather Brennon

1/5 Five of the best British contemporary composers talk about politics, society and the current events that inspire their music. With critic Paul Driver.
Alexander Goehr comes from an eminent musical family that emigrated from Germany before the Second World War. His view of the relationship between music and propaganda is particularly pertinent at a time when the West is at "war on terror", producer sue Davies

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Driver.
Unknown:
Alexander Goehr
Producer:
Sue Davies

3/10. Joanne Harris , Sheena McDonald ,
Mark Lawson and Robert Hewison exchange quotations and anecdotes. Nigel Rees is in the chair and the reader is William Franklyn.
Producer Carol Smith Repeated on Sunday at 12.04pm
BBC AUDIO: A collection of highlights from over 21 years of this panel game is available on audio cassette from good retail outlets or from www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Joanne Harris
Unknown:
Sheena McDonald
Unknown:
Mark Lawson
Unknown:
Robert Hewison
Unknown:
Nigel Rees
Unknown:
William Franklyn.
Producer:
Carol Smith

1/5. This family saga interweaves the historical with the modern in a powerfully observed story of two girls born 70 years apart but both abandoned as babies.
Written by Margaret Forster, dramatised by Penny Gold
(Repeated from 10.45am)

Contributors

Author:
Margaret Forster
Dramatised:
by Penny Gold
Producer/Director:
Martin Jenkins
Hazel:
Clare Corbett
Cathona:
Carolyn Bonnyman
Archie:
Tom Smith
Shona, as a child:
Bryony Reid
Shona:
Jayne McKenna
Leah:
Teresa Gallagher
Evie, as a child:
Kate Aspinall
Evie:
Emma Rydal
Mary:
Sarah Badel
Matron/Muriel:
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Ernest:
Keith Drinkel
Hugo:
Sam Crane
Henry:
Jamie Glover
George:
Sidney Sloane
Hazel's mother:
Maureen O'Brien
Miss Mawson:
Jean Trend
Dolly:
Nicola Barber
Malcolm:
Roger May
Rose:
Alison Pettitt
Mrs Fletcher:
Jenny Funnell

It's 40 years since the first of Britain's big televised public health scares. When hundreds of people in Aberdeen contracted typhoid after eating contaminated corned beef from Argentina, it became national news - but did the media coverage fuel unnecessary alarm and could the outbreak have been prevented? Edi Stark reports. Producer Ian Muir-Cochrane

Contributors

Producer:
Ian Muir-Cochrane

O Raj Persaud and Simon Singh take on three card sharps to bring you everything you wanted to know about poker but were afraid to ask. Can psychology and maths outwit the seasoned professionals? Or will it be deuces for ourtwo plucky amateurs? Producer Rami Tzabar

Contributors

Unknown:
Raj Persaud
Unknown:
Simon Singh
Producer:
Rami Tzabar

4/9. The Jurassic was the heyday of the dinosaurs, but it was also a great era for the global oceans.
This was the time when all the crude oil was deposited and many of the now famous animal fossils were formed. Lionel Kelleway explores this fascinating time along the south coast and, most unusually, in the heart Of Wiltshire. Producer Julian Hector

Contributors

Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
Julian Hector

1/10. Alison Lurie 's Pulitzer Prize-winning story of loneliness and love is read by Barbara Barnes and abridged by Libby Spurrier. Vinnie Miner, a plain unmarried Ivy League professor, is on her way to London. On the flight, she is forced to share the company of Chuck Mumpson , a bulky, balding man she hopes she never sees again. Producer vivBeeby

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Lurie
Read By:
Barbara Barnes
Abridged By:
Libby Spurrier.
Unknown:
Chuck Mumpson

3.00 Listen and Play (ages 3-5) 3.15 Music Box (ages 4-5+)
3.30 Alphabet Time (ages 4-6) 3.40 Find Out with Auntie Mabel and Pippin (ages 4-5) 3.55 Reading Tree stories (ages 5-6)
4.10 Hopscotch: (ages 5-7) 4.25 Stop, Think, Wonder (ages 7-9)
4.40 Scottish Resources (ages 10-12)

Contributors

Unknown:
Auntie Mabel

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