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With John Humphrys and Carolyn Quinn.
6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News With Garry Richardson.
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Robert Orchard and David Wilby.
7.48 Thought for the Day With John Bell.
8.31 L W only Yesterday in Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
Carolyn Quinn.
Unknown:
Garry Richardson.
Unknown:
David Wilby.
Unknown:
John Bell.

4/10. US Immigration. In the 1930s, up to two million Mexicans were forced to leave the US and return to Mexico. Many of those who were deported were born in the US and had never been to Mexico. The aim was to keep jobs for
Americans. Now there are calls for an apology and for the "Mexican Reparation" to be finally included in the history books. Linda Pressly travels to California to meet some of the people caught up in the deportations and investigates claims that history could repeat itself. Producer Emma Rippon Repeated on Monday at 8.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Linda Pressly
Producer:
Emma Rippon

Consumer affairs with Liz Barclay and John Waite.
Including a report on the affordable homes situation in north Norfolk, which needs to find 510 each year.... yet there are more than 170 homes on the old air base at West Raynham that have lain empty for almost a decade.

Contributors

Unknown:
Liz Barclay
Unknown:
John Waite.

Nazi war criminal Herbert Kappler had only one visitor in his cell in Gaeta Prison - Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty - the man Kappler had so often tried to kill during the war. Robin Glendinning 's play explores the remarkable postwar relationship that developed between them.
Producer/Director Gemma McMullan

Contributors

Unknown:
Herbert Kappler
Unknown:
Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty
Unknown:
Robin Glendinning
Director:
Gemma McMullan
Mgr Hugh O'Flaherty:
John Lynch
Herbert Kappler:
Wolf Kahler

2/8. Fatigue. We all feel tired from time to time, but for some people, tiredness can be a more serious problem, if it follows an illness or an operation, or is a symptom of such hard-to-define conditions as ME or Seasonal Affective Disorder.
Barbara Myers takes up listeners' questions about fatigue with consultant neurologist Professor Lesley Findlay. Producer Eliane Glaser
PHONE: [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) from 1.30pm today or email via www.bbc.co.uk/radio4

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara Myers
Unknown:
Professor Lesley Findlay.
Producer:
Eliane Glaser

4/5. The female Arctic tern continues on her migration south, past the tip of South Africa and on to Antarctica and the rich waters of the southern ocean. She watches leopard seals prey on Adelie penguins and survives a snow storm. Narrated by Paul Young. For further details see Monday

Contributors

Unknown:
Paul Young.

What do King Arthur, the last Ice Age and the little "hobbit" humanoid found on the island of Flores in Indonesia in 2004 have in common? Exactly when they existed is still a matter of fierce debate. Quentin Cooper talks to geologist Chris Turney who explains how written records, carbon, pollen, tree rings, constellations, and DNA sequencing can help archaeologists, paleontologists and geologists to "tell the time". Producer Fiona Roberts

Contributors

Talks:
Quentin Cooper
Unknown:
Chris Turney
Producer:
Fiona Roberts

6/6. The Operations. Comedy starring Chris Douglas as rurmudaeonlv author Ed Reardon.
Producers Chris Douglas and Simon Nicholls

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Douglas
Unknown:
Ed Reardon.
Producers:
Chris Douglas
Producers:
Simon Nicholls
Ed:
Chris Douglas
Olive:
Stephanie Cole
Jake:
George Dalton
Felix:
John Fortune
Cliff:
Martin Hyder
Jaz:
Philip Jackson
Supermarket assistant:
Alice Lowe
Pearl:
Rita May
Frank/George:
Geoffrey McGivern
Ping:
Barunka O'Shauqhnessy
DrShah:
Nina Wadia
Stan:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Clematis:
Angela Wynter

4/5. Alison. A qualified physicist, Alison Uttley created Little Grey Rabbit, Sam Pig and an entire magical world that has captivated children for generations. But she didn't start writing professionally until her late 40s, and when she did it was out of necessity. Her imaginative world is drawn from a Derbyshire childhood idyll that bore little resemblance to the solid bourgeois life she endured in Altrincham, Cheshire. Sebastian Baczkiewicz's drama is recorded in the very room where Uttley wrote the stories that made her the bestselling author she is to this day.
For further details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am

Contributors

Unknown:
Alison Uttley
Unknown:
Sam Pig
Alison Uttley:
Becky Hindley
James:
Martin Reeve
Elsie:
Amanda Healer

4/8. Training Minds. With consumer students and a more vocational approach becoming increasingly powerful, Ruth Scurr looks at the higher education market, asking what students and teachers now expect universities to deliver. Producer Chris Bowlby Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth Scurr
Producer:
Chris Bowlby

3/6. Comedy show, conceived by and starring
David Quantick , in which every sketch features only a single voice. With Dan Maier , Lizzie Roper , Graeme Garden ,
Deborah Norton , Andrew Crawford , Dan Antopolski , Simon Greenall and Kate Gielgud , and Bill Oddie and Jeremy Clarkson as themselves. Producer Jon Naismith

Contributors

Unknown:
David Quantick
Unknown:
Dan Maier
Unknown:
Lizzie Roper
Unknown:
Graeme Garden
Unknown:
Deborah Norton
Unknown:
Andrew Crawford
Unknown:
Dan Antopolski
Unknown:
Simon Greenall
Unknown:
Kate Gielgud
Unknown:
Bill Oddie
Unknown:
Jeremy Clarkson
Producer:
Jon Naismith

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