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3/5. The Wildwood and the Wolf. Britain was once covered in vast tracts of forest that stretched up the country for miles. Dylan Winter visits the borders of Scotland to learn about the converting back to true wildwood - as it was when wolves ran there - of a deforested valley.
Producer Sheena Duncan

Contributors

Producer:
Sheena Duncan

With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
James Naughtie.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
Roy Jenkins.

David Stafford takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Kevin Dawson Shortened
PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) email: home.truths@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
David Stafford
Producer:
Kevin Dawson

Clive Anderson examines the big event of May 1979 the birth of alternative comedy - and its connections with another development of that year, the election of Margaret Thatcher. He talks to comics from the time, such as Ben Elton and Alexei Sayle , about whether she provoked a new form of committed comedy, and asks, it SO, who had the last laugh? Producer Martin Rosenbaum
Clive Anderson on the birth of alternative comedy: p119

Contributors

Unknown:
Clive Anderson
Unknown:
Margaret Thatcher.
Unknown:
Ben Elton
Unknown:
Alexei Sayle
Producer:
Martin Rosenbaum
Producer:
Clive Anderson

A lively collection of dispatches from the BBC's foreign correspondents, who report on 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 E16.99) including p&p. Call [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute)

Contributors

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

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Melbourne, Derbyshire, puts questions to a panel that includes the columnist Simon Jenkins , the Liberal Democrat spokesman on Home Affairs Nick Clegg , and Margaret Beckett , the Secretary of State for the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Repeated from yesterday

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Simon Jenkins
Unknown:
Nick Clegg
Unknown:
Margaret Beckett

Listeners' calls and emails, taken by Jonathan Dimbleby , in response to last night's Any Questions. Producer Lisa Jenkinson
PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Lines open from 12.30pm: email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Producer:
Lisa Jenkinson

The last in a season of six ground-breaking plays to mark the 50th anniversary of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in London. First staged in 1970, David Storey 's play was a major critical success. Poignant and often darkly funny, it looks at the lives of five people - but who are they and where are they? Adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins.
Producer/Director Martin Jenkins

Contributors

Unknown:
David Storey
Unknown:
Martin Jenkins.
Director:
Martin Jenkins
Harry:
Michael Maloney
Jack:
Adrian Scarborough
Kathleen:
Julia McKenzie
Marjorie:
Lindsey Coulson
Alfred:
Harry Myers

The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Producer Justine Willett ; Editor Jill Burridge EMAIL: woman5hour@bbc.co.uk
BBC AUDIO: 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.
Producer:
Justine Willett
Editor:
Jill Burridge

6/9. The consumer is king this week as Rosie Goldsmith tunes in to consumer programmes and issues around the radio world, including computer geek podcasts from the USA, the tightfisted shopper in New Zealand who trims his dog biscuits, and ethical trading in Africa. Producer Rosie Goldsmith

Contributors

Unknown:
Rosie Goldsmith
Producer:
Rosie Goldsmith

2/2. Nikolai Gogol's comic tour de force about human folly. In disgrace, Chichikov is arrested but escapes to another part of Russia. He's determined to become an honest man. However, his past is about to catch up with him.
Michael Palin and Mark Heap star in one of the jewels of Russian literature, dramatised by Dan Rebellato.
Producer/Director Polly Thomas Repeated from Sunday

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Palin
Unknown:
Mark Heap
Dramatised By:
Dan Rebellato.
Director:
Polly Thomas
Narrator:
Michael Palin
Chichikov:
Mark Heap
Tenteknikov:
Toby Hadoke
Kostanzhoglo:
David Fleeshman
Koshkaryov:
Wyllie Lonqmore
Selifan:
Graeme Hawley
Korabochka:
Judith Davis
Ulinka:
Rina Mahonev

3/5. The 10.15 to Bucharest. A gothic tale, set on the overnight train from Vienna to Bucharest, in which nothing is quite what it seems. A story by Louise Welsh , read by Liam Brennan. Producer Gaynor Macfarlane

Contributors

Story By:
Louise Welsh
Read By:
Liam Brennan.
Producer:
Gaynor MacFarlane

Worldplay: Saint Artaud. Antonin Artaud travelled to
Ireland in 1937 in search of a sacred phallus, St Patrick's Staff, to liberate himself from the travail of his own sexuality. After several misadventures, he was arrested and deported to France. Written by Aidan Matthews

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