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With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament With Robert Orchard and Rachel Hooper.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rt Rev Richard Harries.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Sarah Montague.
Unknown:
Rachel Hooper.
Unknown:
Richard Harries.

5/5. When GP Cecil Helman becomes an NHS patient himself, he is disturbed to find a system that seems to reduce patients to statistics. He considers whether the latest generation of doctors could learn from the way in which medicine is practised in the developing world. For details see Monday Repeated at 12.30am

Contributors

Unknown:
Cecil Helman

2/3. Author Andrew Smith goes deep into the lives of submariners across the generations.

The combination of the ballistic missile and the nuclear-powered submarine changed everything - warfare, the balance of world power and, of course, submarining. For the duration of the Cold War the real front line stretched across millions of miles of dark water. Former Soviet, British and American commanders and crew reveal the unique pressures, intense boredom and underwater strategy that required them to remain hidden or hunted.

Contributors

Presenter:
Andrew Smith
Producer:
Mark Burman

2/5. 1952. Hercule Poirot is convinced that the brutal murder of an elderly woman is connected to a lurid article in a Sunday newspaper.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.

Contributors

Author:
Agatha Christie
Dramatised by:
Michael Bakewell
Producer/Director:
Enyd Williams
Poirot:
John Moffatt
Ariadne:
Julia McKenzie
Supt Spence:
George Baker
Deirdre:
Teresa Gallagher
Mrs Wetherby:
Rosalind Knight
Mrs Upward:
Jill Balcon
Robin:
Nick Waring
Mrs Carpenter:
Angela Sims
Mr Carpenter:
Dominic Colchester
Dr Rendell:
Gerard McDermott

Roger Bolton selects listeners' comments, queries and criticisms and redirects them towards BBC radio programme and policy-makers.
Producer Kathleen Griffin Repeated on Sunday at 8pm ADDRESS: Feedback, PO Box 2100, London WlA 10T
Phone: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Fax: [number removed] email: feedback@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Bolton
Producer:
Kathleen Griffin

A surreal, comic parable by Elizabeth Lewis about the pitfalls of romantic fantasy. Alice is frightened of the reality of marriage to a Welsh asparagus farmer and runs away to Paris, still wearing her wedding dress. At first, Paris is exactly how she imagined it - romantic, artistic and bohemian. Will she come back down to earth?
Producer/Director Kate McAII

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Lewis
Director:
Kate McAii
Alice:
Caroline Harker
Simone de Beauvoir:
Ana-Luisa de Cavilla
leuan:
Iestyn Jones
The Ubiquitous Frenchman:
Richard Elfyn
Stallholder:
Iwan Tudor
Genevieve:
Sheila Ballantine
Agnes:
Alex Alderton
Mireille:
Phyllida Nash

2/6. Cookham, Berkshire. Clare Balding joins the female hockey team in Cookham who, after 15 years walking together, have formed enduring friendships
Off as well as On the pitch. Producer Nicola Humphries

Contributors

Producer:
Nicola Humphries

5/5. Two Ticks. A young woman works as a volunteer in an old people's home. and despite her limited abilites she understands more of the everyday eccentricities of working there than most of her "normal" colleagues. By Kerry Hood. Read by Rebecca Smart. For details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Kerry Hood.
Read By:
Rebecca Smart.

60/90. Empress. In 1876 prime minister Benjamin Disraeli crowned an era when he proclaimed that henceforth
Queen Victoria should add to her long list of titles that of Empress of India. By Christopher Lee. Narrated by Juliet Stevenson , with readings by Christopher Eccleston and HugoSpeer. For details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Benjamin Disraeli
Unknown:
Christopher Lee.
Unknown:
Juliet Stevenson
Unknown:
Christopher Eccleston

5/8. Simon Hoggart presides over the topical panel game. With Alan Coren and special guests.
Producer Katie Tyrrell Repeated tomorrow at 12.30pm
RT DIRECT: A CD version of News Quiz, Best of 2005 is available from RTdirect for just E9.99 including p&p (rrp £12.99). To order, call [number removed] and quote [number removed]

Contributors

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

Clarrie steps into the breach.
For cast see page 30
Written by Tim Stimpson ; Director Kate Oates : Editor Vanessa Whitburn
ARCHERS ADDICTS FAN CLUB: send an SAE to [address removed]

Contributors

Written By:
Tim Stimpson
Director:
Kate Oates
Editor:
Vanessa Whitburn

10/10. There is a fire at the factory. Jane and her family gather there and learn the truth about James and Arthur and what happened that night on Cliff's Common. The conclusion of Alison Joseph 's original crime story. For cast and further details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Joseph

10/13. Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion in Hastings with a panel that includes former Home Office minister Ann Widdecombe , policy director of New Economics
Foundation Andrew Simms , and Michael Mansfield OC. Producer Lisa Jenkinson Repeated tomorrow at 1.10pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Ann Widdecombe
Unknown:
Andrew Simms
Unknown:
Michael Mansfield Oc.
Producer:
Lisa Jenkinson

Michael Butt 's play-without-a-script dissects the complex and messy world of an extra-marital affair. Two couples are left facing a future they hadn't anticipated, and since the two women involved are sisters the sense of betrayal runs deep.
Producer/Director Toby Swift

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Butt
Director:
Toby Swift
Sarah:
Claire Rushbrook
Janey:
Daniela Denby-Ashe
Phil:
Simon Grover
Andy:
Christopher Fox

7/10. Ignorance Is Bliss. Dominic Arkwright and his guests wonder whether it's ever better not to know than to know. With Virginia Ironside, Ben Goidacre and Sarah Winkless. Producer Isobel Eaton

Contributors

Unknown:
Ben Goidacre
Unknown:
Sarah Winkless.
Producer:
Isobel Eaton

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