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Glimpses in the Garden. Art therapist Joyce Laing connects the visions of William Blake to the surrealists and to a tiny woven offering found beneath a holly bush in the grounds Of a mental asylum. Producer Matt Thompson Repeated at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Joyce Laing
Unknown:
William Blake
Producer:
Matt Thompson

From St Martin-in-the-Fields, looking at reconciliation ana hope. Led by the Rev Nicholas Holtam , with members of the Corrymeela Community from Northern Ireland.
Director of music Nicholas Danks. Producer Stephen Shipley

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Holtam
Music:
Nicholas Danks.
Producer:
Stephen Shipley

John Cushnie , Bunny Guinness and Anne Swithinbank are guests of Wythall Gardening Club, south Birmingham,
Eric Robson is in the chair. including at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast.
Producer Trevor Taylor
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Contributors

Unknown:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Anne Swithinbank
Unknown:
Eric Robson
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

6/6. Time Regained
Marcel is ravaged by despair at his own failures when the simplest of discoveries awakens astonishing possibilities.
From the series of novels by Marcel Proust, dramatised by Michael Butt.
Producer/Director John Taylor
Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Contributors

Written By:
Marcel Proust
Dramatised By:
Michael Butt.
Director:
John Taylor
Proust/Marcel:
James Wllby
Young Marcel:
Jonathan Firth
Gilberte:
Harriet Walter
Baron de Charlus:
Corin Redgrave
The Duchess:
Sara Kestelman
Odette:
Jennifer Plercey
Young Odette:
Imogen Stubbs
Albertine:
Zoe Waites
Robert:
Julian Ovendon
Andree:
Rebecca Smart
Jupien:
Kim Wall
Morel:
Simon Treves
Marcel's mother:
Deborah Findlay
Gilberte, as a girl:
Penny Rawlings
Marcel, as a boy:
Steven Williams

Aaron Lanksy , who saved a million Yiddish books from bins and attics across America, talks to Mariella Frostrup. And news about Ebony Reads, an attempt to counter the focus on white writers in The Big Read lists. Producer Erin Riley Repeated on Thursday at 4pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Aaron Lanksy
Unknown:
Mariella Frostrup.
Producer:
Erin Riley

4/12. Mountains. Did Wordsworth invent the Lake District? Can we see a mountain without thinking of him and the other Romantic poets who revelled in the sublime? Do peaks diminish us or raise us on high? Andrew Motion continues his exploration of the landscapes of British poetry, with contributions from Robert Macfarlane and poems by Keats, Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins , Shelley, Ivor Gurney , AE Housman and WH Auden. Readers are Tom Courtenay , Kenneth Cranham , lain Glen, Jamie Glover , Pete Postlethwaite and Simon Russell Beale. Producer Tim Dee Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Motion
Unknown:
Robert MacFarlane
Unknown:
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Unknown:
Ivor Gurney
Unknown:
Tom Courtenay
Unknown:
Kenneth Cranham
Unknown:
Jamie Glover
Unknown:
Pete Postlethwaite
Unknown:
Simon Russell Beale.
Producer:
Tim Dee

6/9. Gerry Northam reports on The Northern Way, the Government's flagship strategy for urban regeneration. But there are fears that the scheme will break up communities and push thousands of families into homelessness. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerry Northam

5/6. The Miracle Worker. Siobhan Redmond reads
Jeanette Winterson 's story about a life ruled by things to do. A monologue for Lent inspired by ideas of temptation. producer Clair Jaquiss Repeated on Saturday at 5.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Siobhan Redmond
Unknown:
Jeanette Winterson
Producer:
Clair Jaquiss

3/5. Traditions. By William Trevor. Recognition across the generations as a schoolboy and a dining-room maid each recognise an unspoken link to the past. Read by Dermot Crowley. Abridged by Sally Marmion. Producer DiSpeirs

Contributors

Unknown:
William Trevor.
Read By:
Dermot Crowley.
Abridged By:
Sally Marmion.

8/10. Listeners' views on BBC radio, with Roger Bolton. ADDRESS: Feedback, PO Box 2100, London W1A 10T
Phone: [number removed]0400 Fax: [number removed]email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. Repeated from Friday

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Bolton.

1/2. Actor Bernard Cribbins pays tribute to his friend, the entertainer Roy Castle. He describes Roy's early years as stooge to Frank Randle and Jimmy James in the clubs of the Northern Variety circuit, and relates how he was once invited to play trumpet for Frank Sinatra in Las Vegas. Producer Stephen Garner

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Cribbins
Unknown:
Roy Castle.
Unknown:
Frank Randle
Unknown:
Jimmy James
Unknown:
Frank Sinatra
Producer:
Stephen Garner

2/9. Order, Order. The link between drink and street disturbances is a long-standing one. David Walker asks why Government plans to deregulate pub hours in England have provoked a panic, and whether the freedom to drink will become a licence to drink to excess. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
David Walker

3/5. Stand By Me, written by Ben E King (interviewed here), was recorded by Marc Bolan and John Lennon , and even became part of the soundtrack for a film of the same name. Producer SaraConkey

Contributors

Written By:
Ben E King
Unknown:
Marc Bolan
Unknown:
John Lennon

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