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Will to Life. Mark Tully explores the powerful "will to life" that is present throughout nature.Where does it come from and what does it tell us about the meaning and purpose of creation?
Producer Eley McAinsh Repeated at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Tully
Producer:
Eley McAinsh

Denise Robertson appeals on behalf of the Dyspraxia Foundation, of which she is honorary president.
Donations: Freepost Radio 4 Appeal - DF Credit cards: [number removed]
Producer Sally Flatman Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.28pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Denise Robertson
Producer:
Sally Flatman

In Search of Healing. The Rev Liz Griffiths explores what it is to be a healing community, with Roger Shaijean and Rod Beadles , members of St Martin in the Fields, London. Director of music Nicholas Danks. Producer Stephen Shipley

Contributors

Unknown:
Liz Griffiths
Unknown:
Roger Shaijean
Unknown:
Rod Beadles
Unknown:
St Martin
Music:
Nicholas Danks.
Producer:
Stephen Shipley

3/10. Joanne Harris , Sheena McDonald ,
Mark Lawson and Robert Hewison exchange quotations ana anecdotes. Nigel Rees is in the chair and the reader is William Franklyn. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

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

For nearly 50 years, Daphne Watts was a virtual slave, working as a farm labourer for her parents. With the death of her father, Daphne has now achieved independence. How will she manage? This documentary follows Daphne's progress against the background of a declining Somerset family farming tradition. Producer Tony Staveacre

Contributors

Unknown:
Daphne Watts
Producer:
Tony Staveacre

John Cushnie , Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank answer questions sent in by post.
Eric Robson is in the chair. Including at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened
BBC AUDIO: 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:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Anne Swithinbank
Unknown:
Eric Robson
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

New series 1/5. The White-Tailed Sea Eagle Dylan Winter travels the country looking at the legacy of British creatures that have been driven to extinction, and meets those who now work towards and manage their return. Having been introduced almost 20 years ago, the magnificent white-tailed sea eagle soars about the forest and lochs of the west coast of Scotland once again. With 26 chicks successfully fledged last year, the bird's return to the landscape seems assured. Producer Sheena Duncan

Contributors

Producer:
Sheena Duncan

2/2. Roger Menheniot 's clumsy courtship of Kitty has backfired but his dalliance with Bella leads him into more dangerous territory. By Howard Spring, dramatised by DJ Britton.
Director Alison Hindell Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Menheniot
Director:
Alison Hindell
Roger:
Paul Copley
Bella:
Mall Harries
Kitty:
Manon Edwards
Tom:
Richard Mitchley
Henry:
James Greene
Jim:
David Shaw
Ray:
Brendan Charleson
Annie:
Diana Berryman

David Leavitt , the award-winning author of The Lost
Language of Cranes, talks to Maev Kennedy about his gripping new novel The Body of Jonah Boyd. And Benedict Allen discusses tales of daring-do. Producer Karen Holden Repeated on Thursday at 4pm

Contributors

Unknown:
David Leavitt
Unknown:
Maev Kennedy
Unknown:
Jonah Boyd.
Unknown:
Benedict Allen
Producer:
Karen Holden

3/8. Poet and professor of radio Sean Street joins Roger McGough to celebrate sounds, radio and the joy of listening. The readers are Sally Cookson , David Collins and Jamie Glover. Special guests include
BBC Radio 4 announcers Charlotte Green and Peter Jefferson , who read a poem about the shipping forecast. Producer Kate McAII Repeated on Saturday 11.30pm
BBC AUDIO: A newly released, special edition celebrating the 25th anniversary of Poetry Please is now available on CD from retail outlets or from www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Sean Street
Unknown:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Sally Cookson
Unknown:
David Collins
Unknown:
Jamie Glover.
Unknown:
Peter Jefferson
Producer:
Kate McAii

3/3. Robert Rietti continues his tales of individual survivors of the Holocaust in his inspiring talks around the themes of love, peace and reconciliation. Today Luba Czernak meets the son she thought dead in Auschwitz, driving the cab to a Holocaust Survivors' convention in Israel. Then there's Samuel, ordered to lie in the path of a line of German tanks, who survives to grow plants and vegetables in Israel.
Producer Nicola Barranger Repeated on Saturday at 5.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Rietti
Unknown:
Luba Czernak

5/5. Star Stuff and Nail Parings. By Jenny Diski.
Daphne has inadvertently become a travel writer after years of writing fiction. She comes up with an unusual new way of touring the world. Read by Lindsay Duncan. Producer Gaynor Macfarlane

Contributors

Unknown:
Jenny Diski.
Read By:
Lindsay Duncan.
Producer:
Gaynor MacFarlane

4/11. Roger Bolton with listeners' opinions and comments on BBC radio programmes and policy. Repeated from Friday
ADDRESS: Feedback, PO Box 2100, London W1A 1QT Phone: [number removed] Fax: [number removed] email: feedback@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Bolton

3/5. Stuart Maconie delves into the working life of those two ladies of stage Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket. George Logan and Patrick Fyffe worked together for nearly 30 years entertaining their audiences with barbed satire and musical repartee.

Contributors

Presenter:
Stuart Maconie
Producer:
Angela Sherwin

6/9. Dates with Destiny. Without much oil wealth, tiny Dubai has been trying to turn itself into the business and tourist crossroads of the whole Middle East. Peter Day reports from a land where every new development is more extravagant than the last. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Day

Andrew Rawnsley previews the week's political events.
10.45 Walden: Reminisces
3/3. Brian Walden talks about the 1980s - his uneasy admiration for Mrs Thatcher and his anger at Old
Labour. Editor Terry Dignan Walden : Reminisces rptd Wed 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley
Talks:
Brian Walden
Unknown:
Mrs Thatcher
Editor:
Terry Dignan Walden

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