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With Carolyn Quinn and Tim Franks.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Rabbi Lionel Blue.

Contributors

Unknown:
Carolyn Quinn
Unknown:
Tim Franks.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
Lionel Blue.

2/4. Tell Them I'm Occupied with Cyprus. Allan Little analyses
Britain's contradictory relationship with Europe. Today he charts Britain's ambiguity towards the process of European integration. Producer Jane Beresford Repeated at 9.30pm

Contributors

Producer:
Jane Beresford

2/4. If you feel inferior, school can be a place fraught with problems. Will you be picked on? Will you make friends?
And, if you're a teacher, will you be able to inspire a class and keep control? Michael Rosen continues his quest to find out what being inferior actually means. Producer Emma Kingsley

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Rosen
Producer:
Emma Kingsley

I Residents around the Glasgow landfill site at
Cathkin have long complained of being plagued by flies, which multiply on the 400,000 tons of waste dumped every year. They tell Mark Stephens how the tip has made their lives miserable. Producer Susan Mitchell

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Stephens
Producer:
Susan Mitchell

4/6. Lars Tharp , Daphne Fowler and Robin Simon race against the clock in the cryptic treasure hunt, with David Stafford at the helm. Producer Sarah Rowlands Rptd on Sat at lipm

Contributors

Unknown:
Lars Tharp
Unknown:
Daphne Fowler
Unknown:
Robin Simon
Unknown:
David Stafford
Producer:
Sarah Rowlands Rptd

1/2 Taken by Surprise. Dr Joe Aston is a forensic psychologist on attachment to the police in Teeside. A man is abducted and released only when his employer pays the ransom. Joe resorts to unorthodox methods to secure a positive identification of the main suspect. By
David Napthine. The second part can be heard next Monday.
Producer/Director Toby Swift

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr Joe Aston
Unknown:
David Napthine.
Director:
Toby Swift
Dr Aston:
Jeremy Swift
DC Patten:
Paul Brennen
Dl Reynolds:
Janet Dibley
Bill:
Andrew Dunn
Tony:
Gerard McDermott
Moira:
Susan Jameson

1/10. Mary Renault's classic reworking of the legend of Theseus begins with Theseus returning home in glory, having overcome the monstrous Minotaur, only to discover that his father is dead. Abridged by Keith Darvill and read by Robert Glenister.

Contributors

Author:
Mary Renault
Abridged by:
Keith Darvill
Reader:
Robert Glenister
Producer:
Christine Hall

1/5. Malcolm McLaren on Queen Elizabeth II
To celebrate 150 years of London's National Portrait
Gallery, Malcolm McLaren is the first celebrity to choose a portrait for discussion - Andy Warhol 's silkscreen images of Queen Elizabeth II. McLaren knew Warhol and tells us why he thinks his portraits have lost their power and become "fashion". Introduced by Sandy Nairne , director of the NPG. Producer Susan Marling Portraits of a nation: page 109

Contributors

Unknown:
Malcolm McLaren
Unknown:
Malcolm McLaren
Unknown:
Andy Warhol
Introduced By:
Sandy Nairne
Producer:
Susan Marling

7/11 With Paul Merton , Sue Perkins , Charles Collingwood and Tony Hawks, and Nicholas Parsons in the chair at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle. Producer Claire Jones Rptd Sun 12.04pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Merton
Unknown:
Sue Perkins
Unknown:
Charles Collingwood
Unknown:
Nicholas Parsons
Producer:
Claire Jones

1/5. The second volume of Irene Nemirovsky 's Suite
Française: a searing depiction of France under German occupation, written in 1942 before her arrest and death in Auschwitz. In 1941, a German regiment is billeted in a French village. In the Angellier household two warring women pack away the good linen, lock up the piano and Dreoare to meet the enemy. Adapted by Penny Leicester .
Producer/Director Di Speirs Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Irene Nemirovsky
Adapted By:
Penny Leicester
Director:
Di Speirs
Narrator:
Sian Thomas
Lucille:
Eve Best
Mme Angellier:
Deborah Findlay
Lt Von Falk:
James D'Arcy
Madelaine:
Alex Tregear
Benoit:
Stuart McLoughlln
Lt Bonnet:
Stuart McLoughlln
Viscountess de Montmort:
Teresa Gallagher

3/3. Many artists tried to love the Bolshevik revolution, but even for them life under the new regime was not easy. Some committed suicide. Others did the regime's bidding: the head of the Composers' Union, Khrennikov, repressed Prokofiev, Khachaturian and Shostakovich. His widow,
Irina, shares her account of those turbulent postwar years With Martin Sixsmith. Producer Alan Hall

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Sixsmith.
Producer:
Alan Hall

6/9. Thembi's Aids Diary. In 2004, at the age of 19, Thembi Ngubane was given a tape recorder to keep an audio diary of her life with Aids. Over the course of a year she collected more than 50 hours of tape, giving a moving and highly personal insight into what it's like living with Aids in South Africa today.
Repeated from Thursday

New series 1/3. Ice. Ola Johannessen has spent years living and working on the Arctic ice.
Gabrielle Walker discovers how he made his contribution to life on the ice. Producer Beatrice Fenton

Contributors

Unknown:
Ola Johannessen
Unknown:
Gabrielle Walker
Producer:
Beatrice Fenton

1/5. In 1956, the Rev John Ames begins a letter to his young son. To be read posthumously, it is an account of himself and his forebears and an intimate expression of paternal love. Marilynne Robinson 's 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Abridged by Elizabeth Reeder. Read by Garrick Hagon. Producer Kirsteen Cameron
RT DIRECT: Gilead by Marilynne Robinson is available for E7.99 including p&p. To order, send a cheque payable to RT Direct Book Offers to: [address removed]. Call [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute), quoting RT, or visit www.rtdirect.sparkledirect.com. UK delivery only

Contributors

Unknown:
John Ames
Unknown:
Marilynne Robinson
Abridged By:
Elizabeth Reeder
Read By:
Garrick Hagon
Unknown:
Marilynne Robinson

In 1920, 16 years before the Jarrow march, groups of blind men set off from the North to meet David Lloyd George. Gerry Northam explores why their crusade has been largely ignored by history, producer John Byrne

Contributors

Unknown:
David Lloyd George.
Unknown:
Gerry Northam
Producer:
John Byrne

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