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With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Rachel Hooper and David Wilby.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Dr Giles Fraser.
8.31 Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
James Naughtie
Unknown:
Sarah Montague.
Unknown:
Rachel Hooper
Unknown:
David Wilby.
Unknown:
Dr Giles Fraser.

New series 1/5. Adam Hart-Davis returns with the series that visits the most ambitious engineering projects currently under construction in the UK. Today he is in Glendoe in Scotland, looking at the largest hydroelectric scheme to be built in the UK for 40 years. Producer Sarah Taylor Rptd9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Adam Hart-Davis
Producer:
Sarah Taylor

1/4. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. In a series in which authors of four classic novels of the 1950s and bus return to the towns that provided their inspiration,
Alan Sillitoe revisits Nottingham - his home town and the setting for his 1958 novel - to see how the city has changed.
Producer Clare Jenkins

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Sillitoe
Producer:
Clare Jenkins

3/9. China. China is investing F60 billion in science ana technology over the next 15 years. It's been powering ahead in the life sciences, and is now world-class in fields such as stem cell research. Former Beijing correspondent Carrie Gracie returns to China to meet some of the Western-trained scientists there and discovers that not all of them follow international standards. Producer Arlene Gregorius Repeated on Monday at 8.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Carrie Gracie
Producer:
Arlene Gregorius

Peter Byrne, who played Dixon of Dock Green's second-in-command for 20 years, profiles his co-star and friend, Jack Warner. Though Warner is best known for playing the famously genial bobby, he was already a star by the time he first donned Dixon's helmet. Warner was a crowd-pleaser for over 60 years, spanning the worlds of variety, cinema, radio and TV. Bill Pertwee, Ray Alan and Dora Bryan are among those paying tribute.

(Repeated Sunday 12.15am)

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Byrne
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Ray Alan
Unknown:
Dora Bryan
Producer:
Laurence Grissell
Producer:
Jane Lewis

Alistair Rutherford's play dramatises the trials and tribulations of a volunteer group of unemployed shipyard workers and trainee church ministers who arrived on the island of lona in 1938 to restore the ruined buildings surrounding inHinn rhp medievalahhPV.
Other parts played by members ot the cast Producer/Director Bruce Young

Contributors

Director:
Bruce Young
George:
Crawford Logan
Milorad:
Simon Tait
Archie:
Lewis Howden
Alistair:
John Kazek
James:
Richard Conlon
Bobby:
Nick Underwood
Mrs Fallon:
Rose McBain
Narrator/Bill:
James Bryce

Green Mega-Cities. The migration of people from the countryside to the city has led to a huge increase in the size and number of mega-cities. Engineers and architects are now beginning to wake up to the urgency of the necessity of recycling materials and cutting car use.
Quentin Cooper is joined by planners and researchers to discuss how Shanghai could become the model for the green city of the future. producer Colin Grant

Contributors

Unknown:
Quentin Cooper
Producer:
Colin Grant

3/3. Comedians from all parts of the spectrum perform political material in front of a live audience. With John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman , and stand-up comedy from Nick Doody , Richard Herring and Russell Howard. Producer Richard Grocock

Contributors

Unknown:
John Oliver
Unknown:
Andy Zaltzman
Unknown:
Nick Doody
Unknown:
Richard Herring
Unknown:
Russell Howard.
Producer:
Richard Grocock

4/5. Dark Corners. By Alexis Zegerman. Today is Hayley's birthday and she wants a special present from her husband; she wants him to talk to her, to tell her where he has gone to and to find out if there is any hope for them.
For further details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Alexis Zegerman.
Hayley:
Natasha Pyne
Jodie:
Alex Tregear
Geoff:
Kim Wall

As medical science progresses, doctors and families are often faced with complex ethical issues. Graham Easton follows two ethicists who are "on call":
Ainsley Newson in London and Paul Ford in Cleveland, Ohio. How do the UK and the USA compare? Are the ethicists really able to help people make life-and-death decisions? Producer Geraldine Fitzgerald

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Easton
Unknown:
Ainsley Newson
Producer:
Geraldine Fitzgerald

3/9. Control Orders. The Home Office is in turmoil over prisoner releases, sentencing and immigration. But at the same time that we demand that it deal with such vital areas as border control and tracking the movement of people, we seem increasingly resistant to interference with our daily lives and personal relationships. David Walker asks whether individualism is diminishing the ability of government to reassure us that someone is in control. Producer Ingrid Hassler Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
David Walker
Producer:
Ingrid Hassler

4/10. We Have Begun Badly. On a journey to ask more Republican generals to help them blow up the bridge,
Pablo's wife tells Robert Jordan about the brutality and courage she witnessed at the beginning of the movement. By Ernest Hemingway , read by Martin T Sherman. For further details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Jordan
Unknown:
Ernest Hemingway
Read By:
Martin T Sherman.

2/6. Clean Love. Laurence and Gus's series of amorous vignettes continues with a story of beautiful, noble, chaste love and how incredibly frustrating that can be.
Written by and starring Gus Brown and Laurence Howarth. Producer Colin Anderson

Contributors

Unknown:
Gus Brown
Unknown:
Laurence Howarth.
Producer:
Colin Anderson

2/2. Diamond Geezer. By Roy Apps. Could it be that Graham Greene got it all wrong? Pinkie Brown 's son attempts to put the record straight. Director Celia de Wolff

Contributors

Unknown:
Diamond Geezer.
Unknown:
Roy Apps.
Unknown:
Graham Greene
Unknown:
Pinkie Brown
Director:
Celia de Wolff

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