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With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
6.25 ,7.25,8.25 Snorts News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rt Rev James Jones.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Sarah Montague.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
James Jones.

4/8. A Question of Privilege. Legal privilege hit the headlines when there were demands for disclosure of the legal advice given by the Attorney General regarding the legality of war with Iraq. Clive Anderson and guests discuss the question of legal privilege. Producer Catriona Oliphant Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

Producer:
Catriona Oliphant

r Mozart, Gallipoli, King of the North - three types of exquisite daffodils, which laid the foundations for the -' colours and forms of the flowers we knoW today but are now missing from the Laird of Brodie collection.
Jim McColl meets the Daffodil Detectives who, each spring, take to the road to search out these lost cultivars. Producers Holly Booth and Doreen Wood
Alan Titchmarsh on daffodils: page 34 Gardening gift pack offer: page 36

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim McColl
Unknown:
Doreen Wood
Unknown:
Alan Titchmarsh

Could a strange, melodious dog from the remote cloud forests of New Guinea be man's first best friend? Singers have an uniquely musical howl, climb trees and are fiercely smart. In the wild, the dogs are on the verge of extinction but there are 150 pet singers in the United States.
Andrew Luck-Baker meets some of them and their devoted human companions who argue that singers must be saved as survivors from the prehistoric dawn of the domestic dog. Producer Andrew Luck-Baker

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Luck-Baker
Producer:
Andrew Luck-Baker

1/2. When Felix Cairnes 's only child is killed by a hit-and-run driver he makes a solemn vow to track the - man down and to kill him. The police may not be able to trace him, but Felix will. By Nicholas Blake , dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Director Jane Morgan Concludes tomorrow at 2.15pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Felix Cairnes
Unknown:
Nicholas Blake
Dramatised By:
Michael Bakewell.
Director:
Jane Morgan
Felix:
Jonathan Cullen
Lena:
Lucy Whybrow
George:
Andrew Woodall
Mrs Rattery:
Jill Balcon
Violet:
Deborah Berlin
Phil:
Taylor Jefferson
Shepherd:
Christopher Douglas
Callaghan:
Ian Masters

history queries
2/13. Sue Cook investigates more listeners history queries.
Today, Dilly Barlow visits the Big Pit in Blaenavon, Wales, for a preview of this year's Gulbenkian Museum Awards. Producer Nick Patrick
ADDRESS: [address removed]email: making.historyiSbbc.co.uk Phone: [number removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Dilly Barlow
Producer:
Nick Patrick

2/5. The Roundabout. The roundabout is the jewel in the crown of British traffic engineers. But - horror of horrors!
- it is in fact a French invention that the British made their own Joe Kerr visits the site of the very first one, which opened in the model town of Letchworth in 1910, and he learns the difficulties the early motorists had in understanding how it worked. Producer Matthew Dodd

Contributors

Unknown:
Joe Kerr
Producer:
Matthew Dodd

4/6. Actress Janet Suzman and restaurateur Ruth Rogers join Sue MacGregor to discuss favourite books, including
Carol Shields's biography of Jane Austen; "Havoc in Its
Third Year", Ronan Bennett's account of love and plotting in pre-Civil War England; and "Silk" by Alessandro Baricco.

(Repeated on Sunday at 11pm)

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Producer:
Mary Ward-Lowery
Panellist:
Janet Suzman
Panellist:
Ruth Rogers

6/6. Mitch and the team are miniaturised and inserted into Rick Wakeman to prevent impending war. Starring
Mitch Benn , with Robin Ince , Alfie Joey , Tasha Bayliss and KirSty Newton. Producer Adam Bromley

Contributors

Unknown:
Rick Wakeman
Unknown:
Mitch Benn
Unknown:
Robin Ince
Unknown:
Alfie Joey
Unknown:
Tasha Bayliss
Producer:
Adam Bromley

2/5. Old-Time Apple Paste. Moe has invited Glenn to the Passover dinner as a blind date for his unmarried daughter Lillian, so why is Lillian hiding out in the kitchen? By Margaret Wilkinson.
For cast and details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Margaret Wilkinson.

2/4. For the past year, Edward Stourton has been talking to key players involved in the Middle East conflict as events have unfolded.
Autumn: Unchartered Territory. It is the United Nations Annual General Assembly but the Middle East Road Map is in the bottom drawer and America's mind is elsewhere.
Producer Mark Savage Repeated on Sunday at 5pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Stourton

10/10. Given that we are living longer, can we live longer better? Raj Persaud visits the Institute for Ageing and Health at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Here he discovers how it might improve the lives of older people. Executive producer Rebecca Asher Repeated tomorrow at 4.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Raj Persaud
Producer:
Rebecca Asher

2/10. When Candido Rincon is knocked over by a car, he fears, not only for his own life but that of his wife, a village girl from Mexico, who is left to provide for both of them and is totally unequipped to do so in the hostile suburbs of affluent California. By TC Boyle, read by David Soul. For details see yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Candido Rincon
Read By:
David Soul.

2/6. Last week's interviewee, comedian and presenter Jimmy Carr , becomes this week's interviewer when he talks to fellow comedian Matt Lucas of Little Britain.
Producer Tilusha Ghelani

Contributors

Presenter:
Jimmy Carr
Unknown:
Matt Lucas
Producer:
Tilusha Ghelani

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