Fellow 64-year-olds talk to writer Hunter Davies about their lives, hopes and expectations. In this concluding programme, Nobel Peace Prize-winning politician John Hume recalls growing up in Northern Ireland during the war. Producer Miles Warde. Rptd at 9.30pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Hunter
Davies
Unknown:
John
Hume
Producer:
Miles
Warde.
The first of a new series in which Claudia Hammond examines the brain's chemical messengers.
Acetylcholine. The brain chemical that helps us solve problems while we Sleep. ProducerMarya Burgess
With the Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch. Lord God, Your
Love Has Called Us Here (Ryburn); John 13, w2-5, W12-17- Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe! (Lloyd
Webber); 0 Jesus I Have Promised (Wolvercote). Director of music John Powell.
Britain is a leader in the developed world with its proportion of mixed-race relationships. Yasmin Aiibhai-Brown joins Jenni Murray to discuss the impact of the children of this generation on our national identity. Drama: The History of the Life and Memoirs of the Late Ingenious MrsAphra Behn by Alison Joseph. Part2. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Oxygen's Poisonous Life Force. Modern chemistry started with the discovery of the gas that is essential for life-oxygen. Adam Hart-Davis learns howthis remarkable element was first isolated by three chemists in three different countries at the same time, and that only a little less oxygen in the atmosphere would suffocate life, while only a little more would cause massive fires to sweep the globe. Reader Crawford Logan. producer Louise Dalziel
Contributors
Unknown:
Adam
Hart-Davis
Reader:
Crawford
Logan.
Producer:
Louise
Dalziel
The War. First in a new four-part series looking at Workers Playtime, the classic radio variety show which was broadcast live to factories all over Britain. Destined to run for six weeks in 1941 it eventually finished in 1964, and featured such entertainers as Eve Boswell, Tommy Handley , Harry Secombe , Peter Sellers , Diana Coupland , Peter Goodwright , Nicholas Parsons , Janet Brown and Sheila Tracy. Presented by Mervyn Stutter. Producer Jayne Gibson
Contributors
Unknown:
Tommy
Handley
Unknown:
Harry
Secombe
Unknown:
Peter
Sellers
Unknown:
Diana
Coupland
Unknown:
Peter
Goodwright
Unknown:
Nicholas
Parsons
Unknown:
Janet
Brown
Unknown:
Sheila
Tracy.
Presented By:
Mervyn
Stutter.
Producer:
Jayne
Gibson
The series examining pieces of music known for their emotional impact. The Lark Ascending. Vaughan Williams 's famous piece forviolin and orchestra is an evocation of a lark rising in an English summer sky at the turn of the century. Violinists
Tasmin Little and lona Brown discuss what it is like to perform this most English Of works. Producer Rosie Boulton
Contributors
Unknown:
Vaughan
Williams
Violinists:
Tasmin
Little
Violinists:
Lona
Brown
Producer:
Rosie
Boulton
In Simon Little's drama Willie Crawford strikes gold as he digs for a gas main. In the panic that follows, he is preyed upon by various vultures, including councillors, development agency executives, loan sharks and geologists. That's before the council disputes ownership of the mineral rights.
Director Dave Batchelor
Contributors
Writer:
Simon
Little
Director:
Dave
Batchelor
Willie:
Rodney
Matthew
Ruby:
Ann-Louise
Ross
Shelley:
Meg
Fraser
Burke:
John
Ramage
Hare:
Andrew
Clark
Reporter:
John
Buick
The programme that examines queries and concerns about the environment, presented by Richard Daniel. Producers Ivan Howlett and Nick Patrick
WRITE TO: [address removed] E-MAIL: home.planet@bbc.co.uk. PHONE: [number removed]
Contributors
Presented By:
Richard
Daniel.
Producers:
Ivan
Howlett
Producers:
Nick
Patrick
2: The Ex-magician from the Minhota Tavern by Murilo Rubiao , read by Steven McNicoll. When a man can't stop producing lions, snakes or free lunches out of thin air-what Can he do? For detailssee yesterday
2: Rockin' Humber Delta Blues. Memories of the night Big Bill Broonzy sang the blues in Hull, and afterwards ordered "double whisky and chips" at a greasy spoon. For details see yesterday
Journalist Jeremy Clarke and legendary record producer Sir George Martin discuss their recommended books with Louise Doughty. Producer Peter Everett. Repeated Sunday llpm
Contributors
Unknown:
Jeremy
Clarke
Producer:
Sir George
Martin
Unknown:
Louise
Doughty.
Producer:
Peter
Everett.
A sketch show about modern life, starring
Eleanor Bron. With Paula Wilcox , Roger Blake and live music from Neil Innes , and Ronnie Gold and the Rex. Producer Helen Williams
Contributors
Unknown:
Eleanor
Bron.
Unknown:
Paula
Wilcox
Unknown:
Roger
Blake
Unknown:
Neil
Innes
Unknown:
Ronnie
Gold
Producer:
Helen
Williams
By Alison Joseph. 2: Marriage to a Pantaloon
To keep Aphra out of trouble, her mother marries her off to an ancient Dutch merchant.
For details see yesterday. Repeated from 10.45am
"Batty boy", an abusive term for a a homosexual, has become a familiar chant on British streets. The term originates in Jamaica where violent, homophobic lyrics are an integral part of dancehall music; a Jamaican song calling for gay men to be burnt topped Radio 1's ragga chart last month. Writer and director Rikki Beadle-Blair journeys to the island of his mother's birth to confront the homophobia used in music, and to find out where it comes from.
Homosexuality remains a crime in Jamaica, but as Beadle-Blair discovers, even in this environment, gay people are beginning to exert themselves.
Producer David Prosser.
Repeated Sunday 5pm
Contributors
Director:
Rikki
Beadle-Blair
Producer:
David
Prosser
News, issues and information of interest to blind and partially sighted people, with Peter White.
Producer Cheryl Gabriel. PHONE: [number removed] for more information
Most households have a first-aid box tucked away somewhere, but how many of us know anything about first aid? There are courses to attend, but do we always remember what we have been taught? Would we know what to do if someone had a heart attack, for example? Dr Graham Easton investigates. Producer Geraldine Fitzgerald. E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk Repeated tomorrow 4.30pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Dr Graham
Easton
Producer:
Geraldine
Fitzgerald.
Comedian and storyteller Dave Gorman has spent every August for the last 12 years at the Edinburgh Festival, first as a penniless student and later as a sell-out performer. As 12 Augusts make up a whole year, in this one-off programme Gorman looks back on his "year" at the Fringe, and at some of the comedians who have influenced his style since his first trip to Edinburgh.
The remarkable tale of the late eccentric blind composer and poet Moondog, alias Louis Thomas Hardin, who was a regularfixture on Manhattan's streets in the sixties and seventies dressed as a Viking. Presented by Brian Morton. Producer Neil George (R)
Contributors
Unknown:
Louis
Thomas
Presented By:
Brian
Morton.
Producer:
Neil
George
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