This week on the trail of the world's oldest joke. Along the way, Dr Christopher Andrew and two schoolboy companions discover battlefield puns of a thousand years ago, "nudge nudge, wink wink" gags from medieval monks, and the funny sides of the Bible, to the Romans and the ancient Egyptians. In a Paleolithic cave they find a 15,000-year-old joke ... which would still raise a laugh in any playground. Producer Ian Bell
Just As I Am, Thine Own To Be (Saffron Walden);
Matthew 18, w 1-7; Suffer Little Children; All My
Hope On God Is Founded (Meine Hoffnung , BBC HB 299).
Director of Music Simon Over.
Jenni Mills meets
American country singer Billy Jo Spears.
Story: How Slattery Tricked His Mother into Touching Him by Nina FitzPatrick.
Read by Sean Barrett. Abridged by Janet Hickson
Contributors
Unknown:
Jenni
Mills
Singer:
Billy Jo
Spears.
Unknown:
Nina
Fitzpatrick.
Read By:
Sean
Barrett.
Abridged By:
Janet
Hickson
In Sex and the British, Paul Ferris looks at rapidly changing sexual mores in the 20th century. He talks to Nigel Forde , who also explores how novelists increasingly intrude on their characters' sex lives. Michael Arditti 's first novel The Celibate provides an antidote, and a new biography by Jenny Uglow examines the life of a chronicler of Victorian society Mrs Gaskell.
Producer Sally Marmion.
Contributors
Unknown:
Paul
Ferris
Unknown:
Nigel
Forde
Unknown:
Michael
Arditti
Unknown:
Jenny
Uglow
Unknown:
Mrs
Gaskell.
Producer:
Sally
Marmion.
Tim Marlow confronts the outrageous artist Andrew Logan as a new exhibition of his work opens, and reassesses the career of the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.
Producer John Goudie. Stereo
Contributors
Unknown:
Tim
Marlow
Artist:
Andrew
Logan
Unknown:
Aretha
Franklin.
Producer:
John
Goudie.
The Overnight Bag by Graham Greene. Henry Cooper is suspiciously eager to divulge the macabre contents of his overnight bag. Read by John Rowe. Producer Sarah Kilgarriff
Contributors
Unknown:
Graham
Greene.
Unknown:
Henry
Cooper
Read By:
John
Rowe.
Producer:
Sarah
Kilgarriff
A false alarm!
Written by Simon Frith
Director Keri Davies.
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Contributors
Written By:
Simon
Frith
Director:
Keri
Davies.
Unknown:
Carole
Boyd
Jill Archer:
Patricia
Greene
Shula Hebden:
Judy
Bennett
Mark Hebden:
Richard
Derrington
David Archer:
Timothy
Bentinck
Ruth Archer:
Felicity
Finch
Elizabeth Archer:
Alison
Dowling
Tony Archer:
Colin
Skipp
Pat Archer:
Pat
Gallimore
George Barford:
Graham
Roberts
Christine Barford:
Lesley
Saweard
Tom Forrest:
Bob
Arnold
Joe Grundy:
Edward
Kelsey
Clarrie Grundy:
Rosalind
Adams
Neil Carter:
Brian
Hewlett
Mike Tucker:
Jerry
Molloy
Betty Tucker:
Pamela
Craig
Caroline Bone:
Sara
Coward
Lynda Snell:
Carole
Boyd
Robin Stokes:
Tim
Meats
Lisa:
Tracey
Gardiner
Jonathan Dimbleby and guests Lady Anson, Chairwoman of the Association of District
Councils; Ann Clwyd ,
MP, Shadow National Heritage Secretary; Graham Mather ,
President of the European Policy Forum; and the Rt Hon John MacGregor , MP, Secretary of State for Transport, tackle the issues raised in Barnet, Hertfordshire.
Producer Nick Utechin
Contributors
Unknown:
Jonathan
Dimbleby
Unknown:
Ann
Clwyd
Unknown:
Graham
Mather
Unknown:
John
MacGregor
Producer:
Nick
Utechin
The cases, the courts and the lawyers -
Marcel Berlins 's weekly look at the developments in the law and how they affect our lives.
Producer Sallie Davies
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