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With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
7.48 Thought for the Day With Rhidian Brook. Editor of Today Ceri Thomas

Contributors

Unknown:
James Naughtie
Unknown:
Edward Stourton.
Unknown:
Rhidian Brook.
Unknown:
Ceri Thomas

Philosophy graduate Jessica Boyd and environmentalist Bill Finnegan have won an annual prize offered by the BBC and the Royal Geographical
Society to fulfil a travel dream. They go to the outskirts of Cairo to spend three weeks with a 23,000-strong community whose whole livelihood depends on the city's waste. The Zabbaleen - or "rubbish people" - recycle or reuse most of the garbage they collect nightly. Originally pig farmers from Upper Egypt, they arrived in Cairo 60 years ago to form a thriving and complex economy based on what others throw away. Producer Sara Parker

Contributors

Unknown:
Jessica Boyd
Unknown:
Bill Finnegan
Producer:
Sara Parker

2/4. Craig Brown 's satirical history of Britain reaches the 1940s. The French Resistance struggle to victory under General de Girl; Hitler gets stuck in a bunker with his
Gerbil and John Humphrys interviews Winston Churchill. With Joss Ackland , Eleanor Bron , Rory Bremner. John Humphrys , Ewan Bailey and Margaret Cabourn-Smith . Written by Craig Brown. Producer Victoria Lloyd

Contributors

Unknown:
Craig Brown
Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Winston Churchill.
Unknown:
Joss Ackland
Unknown:
Eleanor Bron
Unknown:
Rory Bremner.
Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Ewan Bailey
Unknown:
Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Written By:
Craig Brown.
Producer:
Victoria Lloyd

On the set of the Ealing Studios film Kind Hearts and Coronets, a producer, a director and three up-and-coming actors try to cope with their personal demons while creating classic comedy.
By Andy Rashleigh
Director Clive Brill

Contributors

Writer:
Andy Rashleigh
Director:
Clive Brill
Robert Hamer:
Anton Lesser
Dennis Price:
Adam Godley
Joan Greenwood:
Rebecca Saire
Michael Balcon:
Nick Sampson
Alec Guinness:
Jo Stone-Fewings

New series 1/6. Clare Balding goes for ramble on Islay in the Western Isles of Scotland, famous for spectacular scenery, walks and whisky distilleries. She hopes to sample all three as she sets off in the company of a group of locals who were born and bred on the island.
Producer Lucy Lunt

Contributors

Producer:
Lucy Lunt

5/5. Paying the Piper. In 1840 the Royal Philharmonic
Society had a bad season and the musicians saw their pay take a tumble. Richard Foster learns that orchestras today also find their finances involve a hazardous balancing act. For further details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Foster

2/8. Sandi Toksvig tests a panel that includes Jeremy Hardy and Francis Wheen on their knowledge - or lack thereof - of the news stories of the week.
Producer Katie Tyrrell Repeated tomorrow at 12.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Sandi Toksvig
Unknown:
Jeremy Hardy
Unknown:
Francis Wheen
Producer:
Katie Tyrrell

Adam plays the prophet of doom.
For cast see page 29 Written by Joanna Toye ;
Director Jenny Stephens : Editor Vanessa Whitburn
ARCHERS ADDICTS FAN CLUB: send an SAE to[address removed]

Contributors

Written By:
Joanna Toye
Director:
Jenny Stephens
Editor:
Vanessa Whitburn

10/10. Emma has tried and exhausted every effort to repay her debts and feels that she's left with only one course of action. "Everything is behind me now. All the betrayals, the infamies.... the lies."
For cast and further details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Warminster, Wiltshire, puts topical questions from the week's news to writer Melanie Phillips , Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn , and his shadow on the Conservative bench, Andrew Mitchell , as well as the political analyst Byron Criddle.
Producer Lisa Jenkinson Repeated tomorrow at 1.10pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Jonathan Dimbleby
Unknown:
Melanie Phillips
Unknown:
Hilary Benn
Unknown:
Andrew Mitchell
Unknown:
Byron Criddle.
Producer:
Lisa Jenkinson

To mark the anniversary of modern Britain's biggest financial disaster in 1992, the play uses drama, archive footage and Treasury documents to explore what really happened when Britain fell out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Contributors

Writer:
Peter G Morgan
Director:
Steven Canny
Abby:
Daniela Nardini
Tom Milne:
Patrick Baladi
Keith Atlas:
David Calder
Alasdair Foden:
Peter Harding
Diane Russell:
Selina Cadell
Voice of Treasury:
Tim McMullan
Liz:
Vivien Heilbron
Ed Knowles:
Sam Dale
Security Guard:
Damian Lynch

6/8. Stanley Baldwin. Lord Biffen tells Matthew Parris why he believes that the reputation of former Tory prime minister Stanley Baldwin deserves to be reassessed. With the journalist and Labour historian Anne Perkins. Repeated from Tuesday at 4.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Stanley Baldwin.
Unknown:
Matthew Parris
Unknown:
Stanley Baldwin
Unknown:
Anne Perkins.

1/2. Bollywood is the largest film industry in the world, famous for its spectacle, sweeping melodrama and terrific song and dance numbers. But there's a side to Bollywood that's less well-known: it's a canny social engineer, a political agitator and directs the moral focus for its young nation. In Empire days, film-makers sent out mischievous, nationalist signals to Indian audiences under the noses of British censors. Since then Bollywood has played a vital role in binding the subcontinent together in all its diversity: promoting religious tolerance, rejecting feudalism, and championing a common language and a shared, pan-Indian identity. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown presents. Producer Simon Hollis

Contributors

Unknown:
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Producer:
Simon Hollis

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