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Janet Ellis appeals on behalf of Parentline Plus.
Donations: [address removed], marked Parentline Plus 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:
Janet Ellis
Producer:
Sally Flatman

Monastery, Mountain and Shrine. The Rev Angela Tilby journeys to Montserrat Abbey in Spain to reflect on its history and the life and witness of the Benedictine community today. With Brother Manel Gasch , and the Pilgrim Consort directed by Marcus Farnsworth and James Hawkey. Producer Stephen Shipley

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Tilby
Unknown:
Manel Gasch
Directed By:
Marcus Farnsworth
Directed By:
James Hawkey.
Producer:
Stephen Shipley

Sheila Dillon explores Romany food. She tastes traditional shackles and "Joe Gray", explores the hedgerows for medicinal plants and discovers how changing lifestyles in the 21st century have led to a serious health problem for the Romany community.
Producer David Battcock Repeated tomorrow at 4pm

Contributors

Producer:
David Battcock

A few days after Pakistan was hit by an earthquake,
Bradford-born Zafar Shah travelled with his mother, Parvenn to search for surviving family relatives in the rubble. One year on they revisit the damaged country to see what's happened. He finds his cousins living in a camp and preparing to spend their second winter in tents donated by aid agencies, producer Susan Mitchell

Contributors

Unknown:
Bradford-Born Zafar Shah
Producer:
Susan Mitchell

Matthew Biggs , John Cushnie and Bob Flowerdew are at the Westovian Theatre Society in South Shields, where they answer questions from gardeners. Peter Gibbs is in the chair. Plus seasonal gardening tips from Chris Beardshaw, Matthew Biggs and Bob Flowerdew. Including at 2.25 Gardening Weather Forecast. Producer Trevor Taylor Shortened
RT DIRECT: Gardeners' Question Time: The Four Seasons is available for £13.44 (rrp E15.99) on two CDs or EB.99 (rrp £10.99) on two audio cassettes. 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]
Anne Swithinbank answers gardeners' questions in the October issue of Good Homes Magazine

Contributors

Unknown:
Matthew Biggs
Unknown:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Peter Gibbs
Unknown:
Matthew Biggs
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew.
Producer:
Trevor Taylor
Unknown:
Anne Swithinbank

1/4 Whiteley Village and William Whiteley. In 1907 a department store owner, William Whiteley , was shot dead by a man who believed he was Whiteley's illegitimate son. Whiteley's will contained a bequest for the building of a model village near Walton-on-Thames in Surrey, for deserving pensioners. David McKie explores the village and reveals the extraordinary life and death of the merchant and philanthropist. Producer Amanda Hargreaves

Contributors

Unknown:
William Whiteley.
Unknown:
William Whiteley
Unknown:
David McKie
Producer:
Amanda Hargreaves

2/2. By Joseph Conrad. When a terrorist bomb explodes in London, killing the bomber, all levels of the establishment and all anarchist circles feel threatened. But what began as an international outrage quickly resolves into a domestic tragedy. Dramatised for radio by David Napthine.
Producer/Director Jessica Dromgoole Repeated on Saturday at 9pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Conrad.
Unknown:
David Napthine.
Director:
Jessica Dromgoole
Chief Insp Heat:
Ron Cook
Assistant Commissioner:
Robert Glenister
Adolf Verloc:
David Calder
Winnie Verloc:
Wendy Nottingham
Tom Ossipon:
Paul Bazeley
The Professor:
Robin Soans
Vladimir:
Hugh Ross
Sir Ethelred:
Geoffrey Beever
Great Lady:
Jillie Meers
Toodles:
Joseph Kloska
Stevie:
Paul Michael Biggin
Porter:
Saikat Ahamed

Mariella Frostrup talks to Clive James about the latest instalment of his memoirs, North Face of Soho, in which he recounts his life in London in the 1970s.
And Margaret Drabble discusses JB Priestley's fiction. Producer Nicola Holloway Repeated on Thursday at 4pm

Contributors

Talks:
Mariella Frostrup
Unknown:
Clive James
Unknown:
Margaret Drabble
Producer:
Nicola Holloway

2/7. Live performances of your favourite poems, many with a Midlands flavour, as Roger McGough and poets Martin Glynn and Julie Boden , with readers
Michael Fenton Stevens and Phyllida Nash , entertain an audience at the Birmingham Book Festival.
Producer Viv Beeby Repeated on Saturday at 11.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger McGough
Unknown:
Martin Glynn
Unknown:
Julie Boden
Readers:
Michael Fenton Stevens
Readers:
Phyllida Nash
Producer:
Viv Beeby

1/10. A year after the devastating earthquake in Pakistan, Kate Clark investigates the consequences of allowing extremist Islamic groups and their humanitarian wings to play a major role in the relief and recovery operation. Repeated from Tuesday

Contributors

Unknown:
Kate Clark

John Waite presents his selection of excerpts from
BBC radio Over the past seven days. Producer Jacqueline Smith PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Fax: [number removed] email: potw@bbc.co.uk

Contributors

Unknown:
John Waite
Producer:
Jacqueline Smith

What's worrying you? Go 4 It shares its anxieties with Clarice Bean creator Lauren Child , who plays agony aunt. But will she give sensible advice? Presented by Barney Harwood. Producer VibekeVenema

Contributors

Unknown:
Clarice Bean
Unknown:
Lauren Child
Presented By:
Barney Harwood.

2/5. Families. Novelist and humorist Christopher Matthew 's moving tale about a young man who suspects he has a sister he's never met. Read by Stephen Tompkinson. Producer Martin Jarvis

Contributors

Unknown:
Christopher Matthew
Read By:
Stephen Tompkinson.
Producer:
Martin Jarvis

5/9. French with Tears. Despite having some world-class corporations, business in France appears to be in trouble. Peter Day asks whether the French will stick to their model of state intervention or embrace the Anglo-Saxon market forces they have long shunned. Repeated from Thu

Probing analysis of the week's political events.
10.45 Live Free or Die 2/2. Justin Webb wonders whether the USA has what it takes to export its vision of freedom to other parts of the globe. Editor of The Westminster Hour Terry Dignan
Live Free or Die is repeated on Wednesday at 8.45pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Justin Webb
Unknown:
Terry Dignan

3/5. Kirsty Wark is joined by friends Bridget McCann , Sean Scanlon and Barbara Rafferty to entertain an audience at Glasgow's Oran Mhor with some of her favourite prose and poetry. Repeated from Thursday

Contributors

Unknown:
Kirsty Wark
Unknown:
Bridget McCann
Unknown:
Sean Scanlon
Unknown:
Barbara Rafferty

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