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With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
6.45 Yesterday In Parliament
With Rachel Hooper and David Wilby.
7.48 Thought for the Day
With the Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks.
8.31 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
James Naughtie
Unknown:
Sarah Montague.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
Rachel Hooper
Unknown:
David Wilby.
Unknown:
Dr Jonathan Sacks.

New series 1/3. St Petersburg to Moscow Last year
President Putin declared open a new road across Russia, stretching from St Petersburg to Vladivostok. It is the longest road in the world inside a single country covering a distance of 6,600 miles - around a quarter of the Earth's circumference. Peter Day travels the road and asks the people he meets on the journey to Vladivostok about their changing lives. He soon encounters difficulties when he meets a map maker who tells him the road does not exist. Producers Neil Koenig and Sue Davies

Contributors

Producers:
Neil Koenig
Producers:
Sue Davies

A comedy set in a rest home in Florence in 1875, where three of the elderly residents, all English expatriates, are trying to remember who they are. By Perry Pontac trying to remember who they are. By Perry Pontac.
Producer David Hunter

Contributors

Unknown:
Perry Pontac
Unknown:
Perry Pontac.
Producer:
David Hunter
John:
John Moffatt
George:
John Wood
PB:
John Rowe
Fanny:
Sandra Dickinson

Topical reports and consumer affairs, presented by John Waite and Winifred Robinson. Series editor Andrew Smith PHONE: [number removed] email: youandyours@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Presented By:
John Waite
Presented By:
Winifred Robinson.
Editor:
Andrew Smith

- The story of the pre-war summer in which the famous bohemian and charming French writer Colette became an accidental resident in an Alpine spa - accompanied only by her beloved striped cat. Amid the mountains, the sulphur and the sick, she is befriended by an apparently conventional bourgeois couple and finds herself unwittingly - and unwillingly - embroiled in their lives By Colette, adapted by Deborah Levy. Starring
Barbara Flynn , Emma Fielding and Paul McGann.
Producer/Director Di Speirs

Contributors

Adapted By:
Deborah Levy.
Unknown:
Barbara Flynn
Unknown:
Emma Fielding
Unknown:
Paul McGann.
Director:
Di Speirs
Colette ':
Barbara Flynn
Mme Haume:
Emma Fielding
M Haume:
Paul McGann
Lucette:
Clare Corbett
Georges:
Philip Fox

4/9 Gregg Wallace and Charlie Hicks answer listeners' calls and celebrate winter fruit and vegetables. Producer Lucinda Montefiore
PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Lines open from 1.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Gregg Wallace
Unknown:
Charlie Hicks
Producer:
Lucinda Montefiore

5/5. Re//ef. One of this year's most acclaimed new writing talents explores the shifting and ambiguous relationship between victims of disaster and those who bring aid. Written by Rattawut Lapcharoensap and read by Mark Meadows. For details see Monday

Contributors

Written By:
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
Read By:
Mark Meadows.

4/4. A Living History. Is the Welsh slate industry in danger of becoming little more than a museum piece? Sian Pari Huws meets businessmen, quarrymen and an artist who see slate as a design icon with a bright future. For details see Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Sian Pari

8/8. Alan Coren and other guests wade through the week's news in the topical comedy panel game. Simon Hoggart presides.
Producer Katie Tyrrell Repeated tomorrow at 12.30pm
RT DIRECT: The News Quiz: The Best of 2005 is available on CD for Ell.99 (RRP £12.99) including p&p. Call [number removed]042 (national rate) or visit www.rtdirect.sparkledirect.com

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Coren
Unknown:
Simon Hoggart
Producer:
Katie Tyrrell

Lilian gets a new rival. For cast see page 34
Written by Adrian Flynn : Director Kate Oates ; Editor Vanessa Whitburn ARCHERS ADDICTS FAN CLUB: send an SAE to [address removed]

Contributors

Written By:
Adrian Flynn
Director:
Kate Oates
Editor:
Vanessa Whitburn

15/16. Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Carlton in Lindrick, Nottinghamshire, puts questions on the issues of the week to a panel that includes the playwright and satirist Alistair Beaton. Producer Anne Peacock Repeated tomorrow at 1.10pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Alistair Beaton.
Producer:
Anne Peacock

Inspired by the true and remarkable story of how Marilyn Monroe helped launch Ella Fitzgerald 's career on the west coast at the world-famous Mocambo Night Club in Hollywood. Written by Bonnie Greer.
Singer Ruby King: Pianist/Musical director Steve Brown Producer/Director Pauline Harris

Contributors

Unknown:
Marilyn Monroe
Unknown:
Ella Fitzgerald
Written By:
Bonnie Greer.
Director:
Steve Brown
Director:
Pauline Harris
Marilyn Monroe:
Julia Ford
Ella Fitzgerald:
Alibe Parsons
Morrison/Lee Strasberg:
Kerry Shale
Norman Granz:
Stuart Milligan
Feldman:
Rolf Saxon
Karim:
Fred Fortas
Flossie:
Bonnie Greer

New series 1/6. David Aaronovitch returns for another series of the Friday-night talk show that invites guests from around the world to observe, parody and dissect the habits of the British from a foreign perspective. Executive producer Rebecca Asher

Contributors

Unknown:
David Aaronovitch
Producer:
Rebecca Asher

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