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With Edward Stourton and Carolyn Quinn.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Sean Curran and David Wilby.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Anne Atkins.
8.31 UN only Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Stourton
Unknown:
Carolyn Quinn.
Unknown:
Sean Curran
Unknown:
David Wilby.
Unknown:
Anne Atkins.

Live coverage of the first day's play in the First Test at
Lord's. Commentary by Jonathan Agnew , Henry Blofeld and Christopher Martin-Jenkins , with experts
Angus Fraser , Mike Selvey , and the Bangladeshi team coach and former Australian Test player, Dav Whatmore. Including at 12.35 County Talk.
Producer Peter Baxter approximate time

Contributors

Commentary By:
Jonathan Agnew
Commentary By:
Henry Blofeld
Commentary By:
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
Unknown:
Angus Fraser
Unknown:
Mike Selvey
Producer:
Peter Baxter

The composer and poet Ivor Gurney wrote from the trenches in Flanders of "making Musical History for England, and out of Gloster stuff". He was not alone in receiving musical inspiration from this particular landscape. Naturalist Lionel Kelleway looks at why the county of Gloucester, which takes in the Cotswold Escarpment, the Severn Vale, the Royal Forest of Dean and the Malvern Hills, was so special in creating a national identity for 20th-century British music. Producer Paul Evans Repeated on Sunday at 12.15am

Contributors

Unknown:
Ivor Gurney
Unknown:
Lionel Kelleway
Producer:
Paul Evans

2/2. Immortality. Hattie Naylor 's account of the life of Hans Christian Andersen - in which fairy tales and history are intertwined - concludes. For further details see yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Hattie Naylor
Unknown:
Hans Christian Andersen
Mother Duck:
Rachel Atkins
Young Hans:
Jonathan Bullock
Mayor:
Ben Crowe
Edvard:
Daniel Goode
Ice Maiden:
Catherine Harvey
Little Mermaid:
Helen Longworth
Older Hans:
Tim McMullan
Sea Witch:
Louise Plowriqht

4/5. Le Grand Jeté. Mr Hunsden from The Professor remembers meeting Lucia la Catena when she and her father visited his mill. Now she is a great ballerina. By Linda Cracknell , read by David Crellin. For details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Mr Hunsden
Unknown:
Lucia La Catena
Unknown:
Linda Cracknell
Read By:
David Crellin.

4/5. Tanzanian journalist Adam Lusekelo meets Soli Philander , a well-known Cape comedian and personality, whose new TV show is trying to tackle post-apartheid problems and alter the attitudes of South Africans about what they can do to help themselves. For details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Adam Lusekelo
Unknown:
Soli Philander

Christopher Hitchens gives advice in the reading clinic about tackling Orwell's 1984. And, to mark the centenary of HE Bates's birth, a trip to the Northamptonshire countryside that shaped much of the author's work. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Hitchens

Beetles become fearless, rats become friendly, male woodlice become female. Across the animal kingdom, a range of unusual and often downright suicidal behaviour is due to parasitic infections. Quentin Cooper discovers why parasites need to control their hosts' actions. Can we humans ever blame our behaviour on these critters? Producer Tracey Logan

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
Tracey Logan

New series 1/6. Written by The Now Show's Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis , a topical sitcom focused on the life of frustrated backbench MP
Duncan Stonebridge. He believes his career is going nowhere, ever since he fell off the stage, live on Question Time.
Duncan is a man trapped in limbo, struggling to deal on a local level with the edicts handed down from Westminster. Duncan James Fleet Arthur Simon Greenall producer Adam Bromley

Contributors

Unknown:
Steve Punt
Unknown:
Hugh Dennis
Unknown:
Duncan Stonebridge.
Unknown:
Arthur Simon Greenall
Producer:
Adam Bromley

Mark Lawson reports from Liverpool on the opening of Summer of Love, an exhibition of psychedelic art from the 60s and early 70s that includes album covers, posters and magazines, as well as paintings and sculptures. Producer Ekene Akalawu

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Lawson
Producer:
Ekene Akalawu

2/10. In the second of his special reports from the African continent, Geoff Watts travels to South Africa to see the final stages of construction of the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere. Salt - the South African Large
Telescope - is a flagship project intended to demonstrate that the frontiers of science are not entirely reserved for the developed world. Producer Alexandra Feachem

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoff Watts
Producer:
Alexandra Feachem

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