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Ulrika Johnson presents the Radio 4 appeal on behalf 01 the charity Evelina Family Trust.
Donations: [address removed] Credit cards: Freephone [number removed]44
Producer Kim Normanton Repeated at 9.26pm and on Thursday at 3.27pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Ulrika Johnson
Producer:
Kim Normanton

6/8. The Siege of Sarajevo. Sue MacGregor travels to Sarajevo to reunite civilians who were prisoners in their own city from 1992 to 1995 during the longest siege in the history Of modern warfare. Producer Sarah Cuddon Rptd on Friday at 9am

Contributors

Producer:
Sarah Cuddon Rptd

Jacques Chirac may think we have the second worst food in Europe, but the rest of the French population are discovering that British cuisine has more to offer than they thought. Simon Parkes goes in search of the French appetite for British food. Producer Rebecca Wells Repeated tomorrow at 4pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jacques Chirac
Unknown:
Simon Parkes
Producer:
Rebecca Wells

It was the beginning of the end of communism; 25 years ago, strikes led to the first independent trade union in Poland - Solidarity. In its heyday, one in three of the adult population was a member. Its leader, Lech Walesa , eventually became president of a democratic Poland. Misha Glenny finds out how communism was defeated. Producer Arlene Gregorius ; Editor Maria Balinska

Contributors

Leader:
Lech Walesa
Producer:
Arlene Gregorius
Editor:
Maria Balinska

John Cushnie , Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer questions posed by gardeners in north Wales. With Eric Robson in the chair, Including at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast. Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened rpt on Wednesday at 3pm

Contributors

Unknown:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Anne Swithinbank
Unknown:
North Wales.
Unknown:
Eric Robson
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

2/2. Alain-Fournier's novel of adolescent love and longing is adapted by Jennifer Howarth.

Francois Seurel's best friend Augustin Meaulnes despairs of finding again the magical domain and the girl he fell in love with. He returns to Paris to search for her, leaving Francois with his studies.
(Repeated on Saturday at 9pm)

Contributors

Author:
null Alain-Fournier
Adapted By:
Jennifer Howarth
Producer/Director:
Sara Davies
Francois:
Simon Russell Beale
Young Francois:
Oliver Hembrough
Augustin:
Stuart McLoughlin
Yvonne:
Sophie Ladds
Frantz:
Arran Glass
M. de Galais:
Andrew Hilton
Valentine:
Hayley Doherty
Jasmin:
Fraser Burrows
Uncle Florentin:
Chris Donelly
Marie-Louise:
Sarah Counsell
Lawyer:
David Collins
[Actress]:
Caroline Hunt
[Actress]:
Jenny Coverack

Exactly 75 years ago, on 28 August 1930, Britain's most remote community disappeared. The last 36 St Kildans were evacuated from their islands, 110 miles west of the Scottish mainland, after 5,000 years of habitation. From the noises of the place - wind, birds, the Atlantic, memories of the last islanders, his own poetry - Scottish poet Kenneth Steven weaves a piece of tweed in sound to commemorate life and death in St Kilda. Producer Julian May Rptd Saturday 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Steven

New series 1/3. The Ethnography of Everyday Life
As the local funeral director in his home town of Milford, Michigan, Thomas Lynch has been burying the dead and comforting the living for the last 25 years. One of radio's true poets and an award-winning writer, he fixes his steady and compassionate gaze on life, death, and the dismal trade. Producer Kate McAII Rptd on Saturday at 5.45am and 7.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Lynch
Producer:
Kate McAii Rptd

Barney Harwood meets a 12-year-old film director who discusses his passion for life behind the camera and his film, Sticks and Stones, a winner at the 2005 Tokyo Video Film Festival. Producers Rebecca Armstrong and AbiAwojobi

Contributors

Unknown:
Barney Harwood
Producers:
Rebecca Armstrong

2/5. Stories marking stages in lesbian and gay experience. Rosemary for Remembrance - or From My Diary, 1962
By Lorna Mitchell. Read by Teresa Gallagher , Mitchell's writings humorously reflect the tormented first inklings of sexual identity for a teenager in the grips of a lesbian crush on her teacher. Was it wise to bare her soul to Miss
Caldwell? Abridged by Cathy Stewart. Director Richard Wortley

Contributors

Unknown:
Lorna Mitchell.
Read By:
Teresa Gallagher
Abridged By:
Cathy Stewart.
Director:
Richard Wortley

8/9. Flirting with Armageddon. The danger of nuclear Armageddon could be more real today than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Zareer Masani asks if it's time for a new process of multilateral disarmament. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Zareer Masani

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