Listings
: Farming Today
With Anna Hill. Producer Steve PeacockContributors
Unknown:
Anna
Hill.
Producer:
Steve
Peacock
: Today
With Edward Stourton and Sarah Montague.6.25,7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With Clifford Longley.
Contributors
Unknown:
Edward
Stourton
Unknown:
Sarah
Montague.
Unknown:
Clifford
Longley.
: Start the Week
Andrew Marr and guests set the cultural agenda for the week(Shortened repeat at 9.30pm)
Contributors
Presenter:
Andrew
Marr
Producer:
Alice
Feinstein
: Book of the Week: My Invented Country
Isabel Allende reads from her new memoir recalling her life in Chile. 1: Allende remembers her childhood and her grandfather's home, which was to become the setting for her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Abridged by Sally Marmion. Producer Di Speirs Repeated at 12.30amContributors
Unknown:
Isabel
Allende
Abridged By:
Sally
Marmion.
Producer:
Di
Speirs
: Daily Service
From St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.Led by the Rev Johnston McKay with the cathedral choir. Reading: Amos 2, w4-8, 13-16. Hymns: Judge Eternal, Throned in Splendour (Rhuddlan). God Moves in a Mysterious Way (London New). Director of music Matthew Owens. Assistant organist David Goodenough.
Contributors
Unknown:
Rev Johnston
McKay
Music:
Matthew
Owens.
Organist:
David
Goodenough.
: Woman's Hour
Presented by Jenni Murray.10.45 Why Don't You Stop Talking
Parti of this week's Woman's s Hour drama. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Contributors
Presented By:
Jenni
Murray.
: A Class Act
At the South London Charter School, youngsters prepare for their Sats exams and celebrate the end of another successful year. producer sue Mitchell: The Six Mothers in Law of Henry VIII
New series An unreliable history, created and written in six parts by Barry Grossman1: Twenty years married to Catherine of Aragon - and no son. Should she take all the blame?
Contributors
Writer:
Barry
Grossman
Music By:
Jim
Parker
Producer:
John Fawcett
Wilson
Henry VIII:
Jonathan
Coy
Cromwell:
Milton
Jones
Chronicler:
Alfred
Burke
Catherine of Aragon:
Carla
Mendonca
Donna Elvira:
Sheila
Steafel
Wolsey:
John
Rowe
Pope:
Stephen
Greif
: You and Yours
With Winifred Robinson and John Waite.Contributors
Unknown:
Winifred
Robinson
Unknown:
John
Waite.
: Masterteam
Peter Snow hosts the challenging nationwide general knowledge quiz. This week's teams are from Reading and Aberdeen.Producer Paul Bajoria Repeated on Saturday at llpm
Contributors
Unknown:
Peter
Snow
Producer:
Paul
Bajoria
: The Archers
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm: Afternoon Play: Daunt and Dervish: 1: After the Ball Is Over
A series of five period comedy thrillers by Guy Meredith, from an idea by Anna Massey and Imelda Staunton.Two women who worked in their different ways in the Ministry of Defence during the Second World War resolve their feelings of uselessness by setting up a detective agency.
Contributors
Writer:
Guy
Meredith
Director:
Cherry
Cookson
Josephine:
Anna
Massey
Susan:
Imelda
Staunton
Bill:
Bill
Paterson
Elizabeth:
Kate
Buffery
James:
Rupert
Vansittart
Charles:
Ben
Crowe
Daisy:
Beth
Chalmers
: Money Box Live
Paul Lewis and guests answer personal finance questions. Producer Louise GreenwoodContributors
Unknown:
Paul
Lewis
Producer:
Louise
Greenwood
: Postscripts by J.B. Priestley
Patrick Stewart reads a selection of J.B. Priestley's Postscripts- short talks originally broadcast on the BBC in 1940. Today, he reflects on the evacuation of Dunkirk. Abridged by Julian Wilkinson.Contributors
Reader:
Patrick
Stewart
Abridged by:
Julian
Wilkinson.
Producer:
Emma
Harding
: On the Beach
The first of this week's five programmes exploring how the British, as an island race, have a special relationship with beaches. Today, writer and film-maker Roger Deakin spends a summer day atJaywick Sands, near Clacton on the Essex coast. Producer Jane Greenwood
Contributors
Unknown:
Roger
Deakin
Producer:
Jane
Greenwood
: The Food Programme
Shropshire. Sheila Dillon looks at the contrasting culinary traditions in Shropshire. The team from BBC Radio Shropshire explores the county from Ludlow, rich in tradional fare, to Telford, with its vibrant ethnic and urban scenes. Extended repeat of yesterdayContributors
Unknown:
Sheila
Dillon
: Four Corners
Anne Mackenzie and guests discuss international issues Of the day. Producer Amber DawsonContributors
Unknown:
Anne
MacKenzie
Producer:
Amber
Dawson
: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
New series The famous antidote to panel games opens its 42nd series of inspired nonsense and pointless revelry with a programme from the Theatre Royal in Winchester. Sandi Toksvig joins regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor, with Colin Sell at the piano and chairman Humphrey Lyttelton.Producer Jon Naismith Repeated on Sunday at 12.04pm
BBC RADIO COLLECTION: Eight series of I'm Sorry I Haven a a Clue, along with various collections and anniversary editions, are available on CD and audio cassette from good retail outlets or from www.bbcshop.com Call [number removed]
Contributors
Unknown:
Sandi
Toksvig
Unknown:
Barry
Cryer
Unknown:
Graeme
Garden
Unknown:
Tim
Brooke-Taylor
Unknown:
Colin
Sell
Unknown:
Humphrey
Lyttelton.
Producer:
Jon
Naismith
: The Archers
Ed gets a new opportunity. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm: Front Row
Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and a review of the film Love Actually. Written and directed by Richard Curtis , it features Hugh Grant as a bachelor prime ministerwho arrives in DowningStreet and instantly falls for a member of his staff. Producer Sally Spurring
Contributors
Unknown:
Mark
Lawson
Directed By:
Richard
Curtis
Unknown:
Hugh
Grant
: Why Don't You Stop Talking
Five short stories by Jackie Kay on love, loneliness and obsession, adapted for radio by the author.1. A Guid Scot's Death. From her hospital bed, an elderly Scottish woman approaches her death with grit and spare humour. Atough and unsentimental - but very moving - view of old age and mortality.
Director Polly Thomas Repeated from 10.45am
Contributors
Stories By:
Jackie
Kay
Director:
Polly
Thomas
Old woman:
Carol Ann
Crawford
Bruce:
Glenn
Cunningham
Pearl:
Ann
Rye
Young man:
Kevin
Harvey
Nurse/granddaughter:
Victoria
Balnaves
: How to Be a Brit
The debate over asylum and citizenship in the UK is nothing new. Historian Julian Putkowski unearths a handbook tellingJews how to become British, a Russian secret service manual on how spies can pretend to be British and a British Army guide on being British abroad. Is there any more to it than "faking" it? Producer Matt ThompsonContributors
Unknown:
Julian
Putkowski
Producer:
Matt
Thompson
: Crossing Continents
Rosie Goldsmith travels to Poland to find out how the country is preparing for European Union membership. She asks Poles, including a Catholic priest, how they feel after discovering their hidden Jewish roots, and examines whether Poland is siding with itsEU neighbours or with America in taking military control of multinational troops in central Iraq.
Contributors
Unknown:
Rosie
Goldsmith
: The Nature of Medicine
Human beings are not the only species to use medicine: a huge variety of animals can treat illness and injury using an armoury of different plants. In the first of two programmes, Dr Gillian Rice examines the evidence for animal self-medication. Producer Jeremy GrangeContributors
Unknown:
Dr Gillian
Rice
Producer:
Jeremy
Grange
: Start the Week
Shortened repeat of 9am: Book at Bedtime: The Riddle of the Sands
By Erskine Childers , abridged in ten parts by Doreen Estall. 6: Fraulein Dollman unwittingly reveals the real identity of herfather. Read by Crispin Bonham Carter. Producer Susan CarsonContributors
Unknown:
Erskine
Childers
Unknown:
Doreen
Estall.
Read By:
Crispin
Bonham
Producer:
Susan
Carson
: Home Truths
Shortened repeat of Saturday at 9am: News
: Book of the Week: My Invented Country
Parti. Repeated from 9.45am: BBC Schools
Digital only3.00 Numbertime: Mental Maths Year 1: Age 5-6
3.15 Reading Tree Stories: Age 5-6 3.30 Alphabet Time: Age 4-6
3.40 Alphabet Time First Phonics: Age 4-6 3.50 Playtime: 3-5
4.10 Hopscotch: Age 5-7 4.25 Scottish Resources: Age 7-9
4.40 Scottish Resources: Scotland during the time of Mary Queen of Scots
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