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With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
6.25 ,7.25,8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Robert Orchard and David Wilby.
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Rosemary Lain-Priestley .
8.31 L Wonly Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
James Naughtie.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
David Wilby.
Unknown:
Rosemary Lain-Priestley

7/9. Botswana. The last remaining San Bushmen of the Central Kalahari are fighting a desperate battle to remain on their ancestral land. Their supporters have called on tourists to boycott Botswana. But some San are claiming that the aggressive tactics used to make their case have made matters much worse. Paul Kenyon investigates. Producer Tanya Datta Repeated on Monday at 8.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Kenyon
Producer:
Tanya Datta

1/2. "Rather a Motorious Letter". At Rudyard Kipling 's former home in Sussex the garage still houses one of his last Rolls-Royces. Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee investigate the way motoring shaped Kipling's view of England and France in his stories, poems and detailed motoring journals. Rudyard Kipling 's words are read by David Haig. Producer Robyn Read Repeated on Sunday at 12.15am

Contributors

Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Unknown:
Julian Barnes
Unknown:
Hermione Lee
Unknown:
Rudyard Kipling
Read By:
David Haig.

Comedy by Peter Roberts. In December 1903 the Wright brothers were the first men to achieve powered flight when their primitive plane took off over the dunes at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina - or were they? Could it be that an English aristocrat, one Sydney Mangot Walsh , actually launched a plane just weeks before the Wrights' more famous flight?
Producer/Director Peter Leslie Wild

Contributors

Comedy By:
Peter Roberts.
Unknown:
Sydney Mangot Walsh
Director:
Peter Leslie Wild
Sydney:
Richard Derrington
Elspeth:
Alison Pettitt
Old Elspeth:
June Barrie
Ernest:
Alex Jones
Maxim:
Andrew Wlncott
Lilienthal:
Andrew Wlncott

4/5. Poor Mary. Mary is a sergeant in the Auxiliary
Territorial Service; her husband is a conscientious objector. After four years away, Mary seems to have changed - is she pregnant? Written by Sylvia Townsend Warner and read by Miriam Margolyes. For further details see Monday

Contributors

Written By:
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Read By:
Miriam Margolyes.

Historian Antonia Fraser talks about The Gunpowder Plot, her exploration of the fateful night of 5 November 1605. Presented by James Naughtie. Repeated from Sunday at 4pm

Contributors

Talks:
Antonia Fraser
Presented By:
James Naughtie.

You can't change time. Well, actually you can, and a meeting taking place in Geneva this week is considering doing just that. Quentin Cooper looks at the nature of time, how it's measured and why there are plans to change it. Producer Julian Siddle

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
Julian Siddle

3/5. Comedian Dave Gorman and his special guest,
John Fortune , chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public. Producer Simon Nicholls

Contributors

Unknown:
Dave Gorman
Unknown:
John Fortune
Producer:
Simon Nicholls

With Mark Lawson , including the verdict on Howard Brenton 's postponed play Paul, based on the life of the man whose life changed on the road to Damascus. Producer Thomas Morris

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Lawson
Unknown:
Howard Brenton
Producer:
Thomas Morris

4/5. Red Guard, Yellow Submarine. By Anna Chen.
On a trip to China, a teenage girl is persuaded to fit in by swapping her platform heels and cosmetics for a Mao suit and scrubbed face. Anna reluctantly complies, but for her white mother, blending in is not so easy.
Director Pam Fraser Solomon Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Anna Chen.
Director:
Pam Fraser Solomon
Anna:
Anna Chen
Mum:
Carolyn Pickles
Mr Shang:
Kwong Loke

4/5. On her 13th birthday, Kate has a chance to try to tell her father the terrible secrets she keeps. Vicki Simon reads Alice Greenway 's haunting reflections on the loss of childhood innocence.
Abridger Jules Wilkinson ; Producer Amber Barnfather

Contributors

Unknown:
Vicki Simon
Unknown:
Alice Greenway
Unknown:
Abridger Jules Wilkinson
Producer:
Amber Barnfather

4/4. Comedy, set on board HMS Goliath, a nuclear stealth submarine packed with military know-not-how. This week a stray astronaut and a rock band cause confusion in both Captain Wade's head and Portsmouth. Written by Jim Field Smith and Ben Willbond.
Producer/Director David Tyler

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Willbond.
Director:
David Tyler
Capt Wade:
Jim Field Smith
Cdr Fairbanks:
Katherine Jakeways
Lt Trainor:
Ben Willbond
PO Radcliffe:
Miranda Raison
PO Bazeley:
Renton Skinner
PO Jones:
Gareth Tunley
FO Gade:
Rufus Jones
Narrator:
Jonathan Ryland
Murray Minty Fowler:
Steve Furst

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