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With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Dr Giles Fraser.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Edward Stourton.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
Dr Giles Fraser.

2/3. Norway. How unfinished business continues to shape the present, investigated by James Maw.
For 60 years, Inger Stridsklev has been beaten and spat upon and asked to deny the truth about her birth. Inger, and many like her, have been victimised because their parents were members of Norway s wartime collaborationist government. Is it possible that the most basic of human rights is still being denied them? Producer Neil George

Contributors

Unknown:
James Maw.
Unknown:
Inger Stridsklev
Producer:
Neil George

Writer and broadcaster Germaine Greer and the Liberal Democrat spokesman for Wales and Northern Ireland, Lembit Opik , are guests on the panel as Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion at St Dionysius Church, Market Harborough in Leicestershire. Rptd from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Germaine Greer
Unknown:
Lembit Opik
Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby

Based on the true story of Janusz Korczak , bestselling children's novelist, paediatrician and social experimenter, who set up a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw and ran it as a children's democracy.
Korczak and his children are forced to move into the ghetto, stretching Korczak's pacifist ideals to the limit. But the doctor's values are threatened not only by the Nazi regime but by the arrival of a young Jewish boy who believes in fighting back. By David Greig.
Daphne Godson (violin) Producer/Director Lu Kemp

Contributors

Unknown:
Janusz Korczak
Unknown:
David Greig.
Violin:
Daphne Godson
Director:
Lu Kemp
Dr Korczak:
Alexander Morton
Stephanie:
Vicki Liddelle
Adzio:
Simon Donaldson
Cerniakow:
Sandy Neilson
Stepan:
Anthony Hutcheson
Priest:
Matthew Zajac
Abraza:
Ewan MacLeod
Tadeusz:
Fergus Hitchcock
Bruno:
Finn Hitchcock
Miriam:
Katie Neville
Zelda:
Katie Neville
Coco:
Sarah-Beth Neville

A celebration of 100 years of the entente cordiale between Britain and France. Miles Kington takes a light-hearted but illuminating look, from both sides of the English Channel, at the tradition of exchange visits between schoolchildren of the two countries down the generations. Producer Kathleen Griffin

Contributors

Producer:
Kathleen Griffin

French actress Isabelle Huppert , who stars in the new film / V Huckabees, talks to Francine Stock.
Plus a discussion about Franco Zeffirelli 's latest film, Callas Forever, which tells the story of the last days of the legendary soprano who died in Paris in 1977 at the age Of 53. Producer Sally Spurring

Contributors

Unknown:
Isabelle Huppert
Unknown:
Francine Stock.
Unknown:
Franco Zeffirelli

1/3. Me, Me, Me. What does it mean to be selfish? Could it, in fact, be a virtue? With philosopher
AC Grayling, Michael Rosen ponders whether jumping the queue at traffic lights or buying a Porsche with your wife's inheritance is simply selfishness or a lack of regard for the self. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rosen

The story of the love affair between some of the world's greatest composers and a radical new medium: radio in the 1920s and 30s. Inspired by the opportunity to break free from the confines of the concert hall, an exciting era of composition and musical arrangement for radio was born. Among the first to embrace the infinite possibilities were Benjamin Britten , Kurt Weill and Aaron Copland.
Humphrey Carpenter replays music invented for the airwaves and looks at the innovative ideas and the colourful people behind it. Producer Mohini Patel

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Britten
Unknown:
Kurt Weill
Unknown:
Aaron Copland.
Unknown:
Humphrey Carpenter
Producer:
Mohini Patel

1/2. By George Sand. Indiana, a young Creole, pushed by her father into a loveless marriage with an older man, falls for handsome, frivolous Raymon. Winsome Pinnock's dramatisation marks the bicentenary of the birth of George Sand.
Director Claire Grove Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Director:
Claire Grove
Narrator:
Kate Buttery
Indiana:
Helen Longworth
Raymon:
Paul Rhys
Colonel Delmare:
Philip Voss
Noun:
Ndidi Del Fattl
Ralph:
Paul Panting
Mme de Ramiere:
Richenda Carey
Mme Carvajal:
Elizabeth Bell
Lilievre:
Philip Fox

7/10. Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Claire Fox , Ian Hargreaves , Professor Steven Rose and Michael Gove cross-examine witnesses who hold conflicting views on the moral complexities behind one Of the week's news Stories. Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Claire Fox
Unknown:
Ian Hargreaves
Unknown:
Professor Steven Rose
Unknown:
Michael Gove

In their younger days, distinguished poets Douglas Dunn and Peter Porter both experienced the loss of their wives, In time, each published acclaimed collections of poems about these deaths. Surprisingly, they have never spoken together about their loss, nor about the creative force it unleashed in each of them. For the first time they share their thoughts and memories in the company of fellow poet Sean O'Brien. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Douglas Dunn
Unknown:
Peter Porter
Unknown:
Sean O'Brien.

4/5. Short stories by writers better known for their non-fictional observations on the political scene. Reshuffle of the Vanities by John Cole. "Cabinet reshuffle days were among the more entertaining of a lobby reporter's year - particularly if he or she had a sadistic streak." Read by James Bryce. Producer David Jackson Young

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cole.
Read By:
James Bryce.
Producer:
David Jackson Young

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