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Helena Kennedy appeals on behalf of Women in Secure Hospitals.
Donations: [address removed]; Credit cards: Freephone [number removed]44
Producer Sally Flatman Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.27pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Helena Kennedy
Producer:
Sally Flatman

From the Baptist World Centenary Congress, Birmingham. Introduced by the Rev David Coffey. Leader the Rev Roy Searle , preacher the Rev Terry Rae. Musical director David Peacock. Producer Philip Billson

Contributors

Leader:
David Coffey.
Unknown:
Roy Searle
Unknown:
Terry Rae.
Director:
David Peacock.
Producer:
Philip Billson

2/8. Sue MacGregor reunites the team of Not the Nine o'Clock News, including John Lloyd , Rowan Atkinson , Mel Smith , Chris Langham and Pamela Stephenson.
Producers Christina Captieux and David Prest Repeated on Friday at 9am

Contributors

Unknown:
John Lloyd
Unknown:
Rowan Atkinson
Unknown:
Mel Smith
Unknown:
Chris Langham
Unknown:
Pamela Stephenson.
Producers:
Christina Captieux
Producers:
David Prest

3/9 Clement Freud , Sheila Hancock , Victor Spinetti and Tony Hawks try not to repeat, hesitate or deviate from the subject. Nicholas Parsons is in the chair. Repeated from Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Clement Freud
Unknown:
Sheila Hancock
Unknown:
Victor Spinetti
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons

Matthew Biggs , Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer questions from members of the Sutton Garden Club, near Ely. With Gill Pyrah in the chair. Including at
2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast.
Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened
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Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Biggs
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Pippa Greenwood
Unknown:
Gill Pyrah
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

4/5. Philip Stott continues his journey explaining his argument that animals will always adapt to a changing environment. Today he travels to Lewes, East Sussex, to reveal that there's nothing new about river flooding.
Producer Nick Patrick

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Stott
Producer:
Nick Patrick

3/3. Citizens in a Great City. Dramatist Mark Walker shows how the young Commodus buckles under the expectations put upon him by his father, the philosopher/ emperor Marcus Aurelius. And how Septimus Severus is called on to save the Empire from anarchy.
Producer/Director Jeremy Mortimer Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Contributors

Dramatist:
Mark Walker
Unknown:
Marcus Aurelius.
Director:
Jeremy Mortimer
Marcus Aurelius:
Ronald Pickup
Septimus Severus:
Ray Fearon
Julia Domna:
Helen McCrory
Galen:
Hugh Dickson
Commodus:
Jim Sturgess
General:
Stephen Hogan
Speaker:
Nicholas Boulton
Alexander of Abonuchius:
Martin Hyder

Francis Spufford talks to Penelope Lively about her fictionalised memoir Making It Up, and considers a new novel. The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, by Ellen Feldman. Producer Hilary Dunn Repeated on Thursday at 4pm

Contributors

Talks:
Francis Spufford
Unknown:
Anne Frank
Unknown:
Ellen Feldman.
Producer:
Hilary Dunn

3/4. A new "poetry detective" series in which Joan Bakewell uncovers the place and story behind the publication of a particular book of poetry.
Beowulf. The origins of this poem are hard to trace because it is generally thought to have started in the oral tradition. However, Joan's experts,
Professor Elaine Treharne and Dr Andrew Prescott. agree that the Anglo-Saxon burial ground of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk gives a very visible clue to life at the time of this great epic poem. Producer Liz Leonard Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Joan Bakewell
Unknown:
Professor Elaine Treharne
Unknown:
Dr Andrew Prescott.
Unknown:
Sutton Hoo
Producer:
Liz Leonard

9/11. Six years after the European Commission promised zero tolerance of corruption, why do allegations of widespread fraud and financial mismanagement persist? Gerry Northam examines the new anti-fraud regime in Europe and asks if it is working. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Gerry Northam

2/2. In the aftermath of the controversial trial of the boys accused of killing Damilola Taylor , Esther Armah was a young reporter trying to penetrate the south London estate where Damilola lived. But nobody wanted to talk. Here she remembers the woman who helped her win the trust of the residents of the estate, as well as the impact of what they had to say about their daily lives.
Producer Tom Alban Repeated on Saturday at 5.45am and 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Damilola Taylor
Unknown:
Esther Armah
Producer:
Tom Alban

The children's magazine show is in fighting form this week. Barney Harwood visits Warwick Castle to meet its first female knight. He also takes a tour of the castle and samples the flavour of medieval Britain. Producers Rebecca Armstrong and Abi Awojobi

Contributors

Unknown:
Barney Harwood
Producers:
Rebecca Armstrong
Producers:
Abi Awojobi

3/5. The Blue Lighthouse. A man moves to a remote lighthouse in Ireland to escape a broken marriage. By Matthew Sweeney , read by Gerard Murphy. Producer Karen Rose

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Sweeney
Read By:
Gerard Murphy.
Producer:
Karen Rose

Roger Bolton , with listeners' opinions and comments on BBC radio programmes and policy. Repeated from Friday ADDRESS: Feedback, PO Box 2100, London W1A 10T
Phone: [number removed]0400 Fax: [number removed]2800 email: feedback®bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Bolton

Long before Ali G and Mrs Merton there was a hapless
Australian television reporter called Norman Gunston. His creator, Garry McDonald , gives a rare interview to lifelong fan Mark Little. Producer James Crawford

Contributors

Unknown:
Ali G
Unknown:
Norman Gunston.
Unknown:
Garry McDonald
Unknown:
Mark Little.
Producer:
James Crawford

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