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A celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of Sir
Christopher Cockerell 's invention of the exotic, bulbous, noisy, ungainly creature that sashays across the land and sea, more commonly known as the hovercraft. Presented by Peter Snow. Producer Susan Marling

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Cockerell
Presented By:
Peter Snow.
Producer:
Susan Marling

Insight, colour, wit and analysis as the BBC's foreign correspondents look at the stories in their regions. Presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant
RT DIRECT: From Our Own Correspondent, edited by Tony Grant. is available for E15.99 (RRP £16.99) including p&p. Call [number removed]042 (national rate)

Contributors

Presented By:
Kate Adie.
Producer:
Tony Grant
Edited By:
Tony Grant.

2/6. The peerless impression show in which politicians, celebrities, sports stars and Radio 4 favourites are all subject to merciless topical lampooning. Starring
Jon Culshaw , Jan Ravens , Kevin Connelly and Phil Cornwell. From Warwick Arts Centre. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jon Culshaw
Unknown:
Jan Ravens
Unknown:
Kevin Connelly
Unknown:
Phil Cornwell.

Listeners' calls and emails, taken by Jonathan Dimbleby , in response to Any Questions. Producer Peter Griffiths PHONE: [number removed]0444 Lines open from 12.30pm email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producer:
Peter Griffiths

Inspector Matthai discovers the horrific murder of an eight-year-old girl. When he tells the girl's mother, she makes him swear on his soul to find the killer - and so begins Matthai's obsession with the case and the dark world beneath the polite veneer of 1950s Swiss society.

Written by Friedrich Durrenmatt and dramatised for radio by Steve Chambers, this story was also adapted into a film in 2001, directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.

Contributors

Author:
Friedrich Durrenmatt
Dramatised by:
Steve Chambers
Producer/Director:
David Hitchinson
Chief of Police:
Roy Marsden
Insp Matthai:
Kenneth Cranham
Sgt Henzi:
Nicholas Boulton
Von Gunten:
Gerard McDermott
Lotte:
Teresa Gallagher
Dr Locher:
Clive Swift
Landlord:
David Timson
Frau Moser:
Colleen Prendergast
Herr Moser:
Harry Myers
Fraulein K:
Sophie Roberts
Ursula/Annmarie:
Jessica Crossley
Farmer:
John Cummins

As the velvet curtain rises on Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore, Little Buttercup's offers of bagels, knishes and latkes seem strangely out of place with this parody of Englishness. This may well be Gilbert and Sullivan, but in a parallel universe! Ian Bradley travels to New York to meet those in the Gilbert and Sullivan Yiddish Light Opera
Company whose efforts to cross a most unlikely cultural bridge have led to surprising results. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Bradley

The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Producer VibekeVenema; Editor Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
BBC AUDIO: The recently released Woman's Hour: a Celebration of Mothers, featuring excerpts from the programme, is available on audio cassette and CD from www.bbcshop.com and from all good retail outlets, or by calling [number removed]

Contributors

Presented By:
Martha Kearney.
Editor:
Jill Burridge

2/15. Every week, an international writer reflects on the latest developments - political, cultural and social - in their part of the world. This week, Sarah McDonald offers her thoughts on events making waves in her native Australia. Producer Sue Ellis Repeated from 5.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Sarah McDonald

Exactly 30 years ago today, the first British climbers arrived at the summit of the world's highest mountain. Expedition leader Chris Bonington opens his personal audio diary of those dramatic days on top of the world for the first time. Stephen Venables, who himself climbed Everest without oxygen, recalls the momentous 1975 expedition. Producers Andy Carter and Dave Sheasby

Contributors

Leader:
Chris Bonington
Unknown:
Stephen Venables
Producers:
Andy Carter
Producers:
Dave Sheasby

1/3. Jane Austen's naive young heroine, Catherine Morland, is launched into the intriguing world of Bath society. Dramatised by Dominic Power.
Director Pam Fraser Solomon (Repeated from Sunday)

Contributors

Author:
Jane Austen
Dramatised By:
Dominic Power
Director:
Pam Fraser Solomon
Jane Austen:
Amanda Root
Catherine:
Emily Wachter
Henry:
David Harewood
Mrs Allen:
Julia McKenzie
Isabella:
Claire Skinner
Eleanor:
Saskia Reeves
Mrs Thorpe:
Jenny Agutter
John:
Jonathan Keeble
James:
Shiv Grewal
Mr Allen:
John Rowe
Mr Morland:
Gerard McDermott
Mrs Morland:
Susan Jameson
General Tilney:
John Shrapnel

3/3. The love affair between Jamaican music and poets from the island is celebrated and explored by Valerie Bloom , who explains how the cultural ferment that gave rise to reggae and Bob Marley , also stimulated the development of dub poetry. Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Valerie Bloom
Unknown:
Bob Marley

5/5. Stories and extracts from novels that take as their theme the sea and the sailor's never-ending battle with the elements.
The Cruel Sea. By Nicholas Monsarrat. HMS Compass Rose stops engines to make repairs and wallows undefended on an ocean alive with U-boats in this extract from the classic novel of war at sea. Read by Julian Wadham. Producer Lisa Osborne

Contributors

Unknown:
Nicholas Monsarrat.
Read By:
Julian Wadham.
Producer:
Lisa Osborne

Lysistrata
By Aristophanes. As part of the Who Rules Your World? season. Adapted by Ranjit Bolt and featuring an all-Asian cast, this is a ribald, raw comedy in which a group of angry women withhold sex from their husbands to end the 28-year-old Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens

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