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With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Clifford Longley.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Sarah Montague.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
Clifford Longley.

The exodus from Britain of women who married Canadian servicemen during the Second World War was one of the strangest migrations in modern history. Edi Stark meets the women who gambled their whole lives on love. Producers Luisa Stucchi and Lynne Mennie

Contributors

Producers:
Luisa Stucchi
Producers:
Lynne Mennie

2/2. Jennings and Darbishire. Jennings and his sidekick
Darbishire are mischievous schoolboys of the classic Kinu.
Is there no end to the damage they can inflict? Especially when it is Jennings's birthday. By Anthony Buckendge.
Producer Elizabeth Freestone

Contributors

Unknown:
Anthony Buckendge.
Producer:
Elizabeth Freestone
Jennings:
Felix Still
Darbishire:
Luke Newberry
Venables:
Ben Borwiecki
Matron:
Rebecca Front
MrWilkins:
Alex Lowe

Gordon Springer has an almost god-like power over the office network. He can tap into any of his colleagues personal secrets whenever he likes. Gordon isn't a spy. He's the IT manager.

Contributors

Writer:
Richard Stevens
Director:
Fiona McAlpine
Gordon:
Karl Theobald
Dave:
Stephen Mangan
Frank:
David Horovitch
Linda:
Jasmine Hyde
Rachel:
Regina Freedman
Debbie:
Catherine Shepherd
Camilla:
Lara Haworth
Hyacinth:
Alicya Eyo

1/5. Mad Girls in the Attic. A week of stories inspired by Charlotte Bronte's characters, marking the 150th anniversary of her death, begins with a tale by Michele Roberts. Sophie, Adele's French maid at Thornf leld Hall, tells of her life there as she travels back to Frances. Read by Deborah McAndrew. Producer GaynorMacfarlane

Contributors

Unknown:
Michele Roberts.
Read By:
Deborah McAndrew.

1/5. In the past decade a media revolution in Africa has changed the way Africans view the world, their thinking and their expectations. Journalist Adam Lusekelo meets the continent's key communication figures. Today it s the turn of Reginald Mengi , a businessman who privately owns or controls almost 70 per cent of Tanzania's media, previously in government hands. What are the implications of this dramatic shift in media control and is this healthy for the country's emerging democracy? producer Ruth Evans

Contributors

Unknown:
Adam Lusekelo
Unknown:
Reginald Mengi
Producer:
Ruth Evans

7/7 Exchanging quotations and anecdotes are the satirist Alistair Beaton, broadcaster Sue MacGregor, journalist Andrew Mueller and comedian Simon Munnery. Hosted by Nigel Rees. The reader is William Franklyn. Producer Tilusha Ghelani
(Repeated on Sunday at 12.04pm)
BBC Audio: Highlights from over 21 years of this acclaimed Radio 4 panel game, selected and introduced by Nigel Rees , are available on audio cassette and CD from retail outlets or from [web address removed], or by calling [number removed].

Contributors

Unknown:
Alistair Beaton
Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Simon Munnery.
Unknown:
Nigel Rees.
Unknown:
William Franklyn.
Producer:
Tilusha Ghelani

6/10. Jane can't understand why Dottie has been so prickly over Christmas, but the grand opening of the shop distracts both from their worries. By Lynne Reid Banks , dramatised by Juliet Ace.
Producer/Director Alison Hindell Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Lynne Reid Banks
Dramatised By:
Juliet Ace.
Director:
Alison Hindell
jane:
Lynne Seymour
Dottie:
Rachel Atkins
Toby:
John McAndrew
Henry:
Simon Ludders
Dora:
Slriol Jenkins
John:
Trevor Laird
Mrs Stephens:
Manon Edwards
Ted:
Don McCorkindale
Joanna:
Nickie Rainsford
Billy Lee:
Lesley Rooney

2/4. The Spanish Armada. We remember a lot about the Spanish Armada of 1588: Drake and his game of bowls,
Elizabeth I on Tilbury Docks, a glorious naval victory - but are we remembering the right history? Michael Portillo investigates the real history of the Armada and its legacy and asks why we've forgotten so much. Producer Philip Sellars

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Portillo
Producer:
Philip Sellars

Automated voices are everywhere: on railway stations, in the post office, on the phone, around the home. Humans or machines? Meet the talking kitchen, the man who says sorry more than anyone else, and the speakers who reach a captive audience of tens of millions every month. With music by lain Ballamy and Ashley Slater. "For further assistance, please tune in." Producers Peter McHugh and John Goudie

Contributors

Unknown:
Ashley Slater.
Producers:
Peter McHugh
Producers:
John Goudie

2/8. Birds of Paradise. David Attenborough and natural-history film-maker Huw Cordey share a fascination for birds of paradise. In conversation with Brett Westwood , they shed light on the lives of these beautiful creatures, that have been the stuff of myth, the centrepiece of ceremony for the tribes of Papua New Guinea, and the subject of scientific curiosity over millennia. it's a fascinating, intriguing, colourful, and noisy story. Producer Sarah Blunt Repeated tomorrow at 11am

Contributors

Unknown:
David Attenborough
Unknown:
Huw Cordey
Unknown:
Brett Westwood

1/5. Margarethe's present life in a stultifying German provincial town seems agreeable enough, until echoes of the past intrude as a meeting takes place. Elke Schmitter 's novel, translated by Carol Janeway
Brown, and abridged by Katrin Williams , has echoes of a German Madame Bovary as events romantic and criminal unfold in a small town. Read by Stella Gonet. Producer Duncan Minshull

Contributors

Unknown:
Elke Schmitter
Translated By:
Carol Janeway
Abridged By:
Katrin Williams
Unknown:
Madame Bovary
Read By:
Stella Gonet.
Producer:
Duncan Minshull

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