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With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.

Contributors

Unknown:
James Naughtie
Unknown:
Sarah Montague.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
Roy Jenkins.

3/3. How unfinished business continues to shape the present, investigated by James Maw. Greece, In the spring of 1948, 28,000 children walked across the mountains of northern Greece into Albania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. They expected to return to their villages within weeks or months, but many found themselves locked out of their homeland for decades. James Maw travels from Athens to Skopje, talking to those whose lives were changed for ever by the bitter divisions Of the Greek civil war. Producer Neil George

Contributors

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

3/6. The funny side of the week's news through stand-up, sketches and song, with Steve Punt , Hugh Dennis , Marcus Brigstocke , Laura Shavin , Mitch Benn and Jon Holmes. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Punt
Unknown:
Hugh Dennis
Unknown:
Marcus Brigstocke
Unknown:
Laura Shavin
Unknown:
Mitch Benn
Unknown:
Jon Holmes.

A fast-paced thriller about a doctor who is delighted to discover that his old friend from university has returned to Northern Ireland and wants to help him get the promotion he so desperately craves. However, Devlin has other reasons for looking up his old friend Matt, who quickly finds himself involved in professional misconduct and worse. By Francis Turnly.

Contributors

Writer:
Francis Turnly
Matt:
Lloyd Hutchinson
Hannah:
Eileen McCloskey
Devlin:
Miche Doherty
Michael:
Ian Beattie
Constantine:
Roger Jennings
Carol:
Maria Connolly
Member of the group:
Sean Crummey
Member of the group:
Joe Rea

Mulk Raj Anand , who died in September at the age of 98 and whose long literary career began among the Bloomsbury group in 1920s London, was known as the "Indian Dickens" and as the founding father of Indian literature in English. Here's another chance to hear Mukti Jain Campion 's celebration of his life. Producer Mukti Jain Campion

Contributors

Unknown:
Mulk Raj Anand
Unknown:
Mukti Jain Campion
Producer:
Mukti Jain Campion

Tom Sutcliffe and guests Maria Delgado , Patrick Gale and John Mullan review Beyond the Sea, a biopic on the life of 1950s pop star Bobby Darin , directed by and starring Kevin Spacey. Producer Fiona McLean

Contributors

Unknown:
Tom Sutcliffe
Unknown:
Maria Delgado
Unknown:
Patrick Gale
Unknown:
John Mullan
Unknown:
Bobby Darin
Unknown:
Kevin Spacey.
Producer:
Fiona McLean

2/3. Family Lore. When does the egocentric child turn into the selfish teenager? Is it only when they become parents themselves that they learn to become altruistic, enslaved to their own ungrateful children? AC Grayling and Michael Rosen try to provide a few answers. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rosen

The Victoria Cross was awarded for the first time in 1854 as a direct result of the Crimean War, but prior to that conflict medals for bravery were awarded only to officers, while ordinary soldiers might merely be mentioned in dispatches. To enable her to honour the courage of all fighting men, regardless of rank, Queen Victoria gave permission for a medal to be instituted, for "a signal act of valour in the presence of the enemy". Sir Peter de la Billiere, commander of British forces in the Gulf War, tells the story of the VC and explores the nature of courage.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sir Peter de la Billiere
Producer:
Libby Cross

2/2. By George Sand. Indiana, a young Creole, who is married to a much older man, risks everything for love but discovers that handsome Raymon's ideas are very different to her own. Winsome Pinnock's dramatisation marks the bicentenary of the birth of George Sand.
Director Claire Grove Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
George Sand.
Unknown:
George Sand.
Director:
Claire Grove
Narrator:
Kate Buffery
Indiana:
Helen Longworth
Raymon:
Paul Rhys
Colonel Delmare:
Philip Voss
Noun Ndidi:
Del Fatti
Ralph:
Paul Panting
Mme de Ramiere:
Rlchenda Carey
M Hubert:
Andrew Harrison
Cpt Random:
Philip Fox

8/10. A debate, chaired by Michael Buerk , in which
Melanie Phillips , Claire Fox , Steven Rose and Michael Gove cross-examine witnesses who hold conflicting views on the week's news Stories. Repeated from Wednesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Buerk
Unknown:
Melanie Phillips
Unknown:
Claire Fox
Unknown:
Steven Rose
Unknown:
Michael Gove

The inconsequential horizon and the open skies of the flatlands of East Anglia have always been creatively stimulating for poet Lavinia Greenlaw. So why have writers of the last three centuries been repeatedly drawn to mountains, specifically the Alps? Don't they get in the way of the view? With contributions from climber/critic Robert Macfarlane , the Swiss poet/ rapper Raphael Urweider and the ghosts of Heidi and The Sound Of Music. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Lavinia Greenlaw.
Unknown:
Robert MacFarlane
Unknown:
Raphael Urweider

5/5. Short stories by writers better known fortheir non-fictional observations of the political scene.
The Brown Envelope. By Magnus Linklater. "I've put your mail in three piles. Constituency, party and parliamentary business. Oh yes, and there was this. I didn't know quite what to do with it." Read by Terry Wale. Producer David Jackson Young

Contributors

Unknown:
Brown Envelope.
Unknown:
Magnus Linklater.
Read By:
Terry Wale.
Producer:
David Jackson Young

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