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Shirley Anne Field appeals on behalf of NCH.
Donations: [address removed], marked NCH on the back of the envelope: Credit cards: Freephone [number removed]
Producer Sally Flatman
Repeated at 9.26pm, and on Thursday at 3.27pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Shirley Anne Field
Producer:
Sally Flatman

Sacred Earth. The Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Rev
James Jones , explores what Christian teaching has to say about our relationship to the Earth and the environment. Led by Andrew Graystone. With the Coupland Consort , director of music Marcus Farnsworth : organist Philip Rushtorth.
Producer Mark O'Brien

Contributors

Unknown:
James Jones
Unknown:
Andrew Graystone.
Unknown:
Coupland Consort
Organist:
Marcus Farnsworth
Organist:
Philip Rushtorth.
Producer:
Mark O'Brien

New series 1/4. Rail Privatisation. Joining Sue MacGregor is the former chief executive of British Rail, John Welsby ; the former transport secretary John MacGregor : the director of Passenger Rail Franchising, Roger Salmon ; former permanent secretary at the Department ot
Transport. Patrick Brown : and rail expert and journalist Roger Ford , to relive one of the most controversial reforms of the Conservative governments of the 1990s: the privatisation of the railways.
Producer Christina Captieux Repeated on Friday at 9am

Contributors

Unknown:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
John Welsby
Unknown:
John MacGregor
Unknown:
Roger Salmon
Unknown:
Patrick Brown
Unknown:
Roger Ford
Producer:
Christina Captieux

In the final report on food in America, Jean Snedegar visits Polyface Farm in Virginia, where innovative farmer Joel Salatin produces some of the country s finest beef, chicken and pork based on a unique system he calls "beyond organic".
Producer Rebecca Moore Repeated tomorrow at 4pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Snedegar
Unknown:
Joel Salatin
Producer:
Rebecca Moore

3/3. In his exploration of the connections between British art schools and pop, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker talks to current art-school students to discover the ways in which artists may impact on the pop industry of the future, and vice versa. Producer Bob Dickinson

Contributors

Talks:
Jarvis Cocker
Producer:
Bob Dickinson

Chris Beardshaw, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank answer questions from gardeners in Buckinghamshire. Peter Gibbs is in the chair. And at the GOT garden, the team explain how to grow watercress, iris and Japanese onions. Including at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast. Producer Trevor Taylor
RT DIRECT: Gardeners' Question Time: The Four Seasons is available on CD or audio cassette. Two CDs cost E13.44 (rrp E15.99) or 2 audio cassettes cost E8.99 (rrp £10.99). Prices include p&p. To order, send a cheque payable to BBC Shop to: [address removed]. visit www.bbcshop.com. or call [number removed]. quoting [number removed]
Sensational bulbs offer: page 132

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Anne Swithinbank
Producer:
Trevor Taylor

1/4. Winter Roosting. At dusk around 40,000 rooks gather in the Yare Valley in Norfolk - a black carpet covering whole fields before they drain into their roosting wood. Mark Cocker follows the life cycle of one of the most familiar but overlooked birds of the British countryside.
Producer Tim Dee

Contributors

Unknown:
Mark Cocker
Producer:
Tim Dee

1/2. Graham Greene 's dark thriller about identity and redemption, dramatised by Sean O'Brien. For Arthur Rowe the charity fête was a welcome chance to escape the terror of the Blitz. Then he correctly guesses the weiaht of a cake and from that moment he's a hunted man.
Producer/Director Gary Brown Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Greene
Dramatised By:
Sean O'Brien.
Unknown:
Arthur Rowe
Director:
Gary Brown
Rowe:
Michael Feast
Willi:
James Nickerson
Anna:
Fiona Clarke
Mrs Bellairs:
Anne Rye
Rennit:
David Fleeshman
Mrs Willcox/Miss Pantil:
Maggie Fox
Mrs Dermody/Mother:
Sue Ryding
Poole/Fullove:
Malcolm Raeburn
Rev Sinclair:
Stuart Richman

New series 1/4. Tennyson - The Lady of Shalott.
Peggy Reynolds explores great and loved poems, their histories, and the lives they have lived down to today. In Camelot, a cursed lady must weave in a tower, but she must never look from the window until Sir Lancelot passes by singing. Why is this poem still intriguing historians, painters, weavers and indie pop singers? Producer Tim Dee Rptd Sat 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Reynolds
Producer:
Tim Dee

Kirsty Lang presents her selection of excerpts from
BBC radio over the past seven days. Producer Anne'Marie Cole PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Fax: [number removed] email: potw@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
Kirsty Lang

9/9. Victims or Villains? Kenan Malik tackles society's confusion about masculinity, at a time when soft. "caring-sharing" values are threatening traditional male virtues such as decisiveness, honour and bravery. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenan Malik

Andrew Rawnsley previews the week's political events.
10.45 The Gibbon Test
2/3. How is Edward Gibbon 's iconic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire relevant to Britain today? Matthew Parris looks at the British public through Gibbon's eyes. Editor of The Westminster Hour Terry Dignan The Gibbon Test is repeated on Wednesday at 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Rawnsley
Unknown:
Edward Gibbon
Unknown:
Matthew Parris
Unknown:
Terry Dignan

3/3. USA - Harry Shearer. Miles Kington interviews Harry Shearer , probably best known in the UK for his voice work on The Simpsons and as the moustachioed bass player Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Shearer.
Unknown:
Harry Shearer
Unknown:
Derek Smalls

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