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 12.30am
Contributors
Unknown:
Isabel
Allende
Abridged By:
Sally
Marmion.
Producer:
Di
Speirs
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.
New series An unreliable history, created and written in six parts by Barry Grossman
1: 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
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
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
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
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 at
Jaywick Sands, near Clacton on the Essex coast. Producer Jane Greenwood
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 yesterday
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
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 Downing
Street and instantly falls for a member of his staff. Producer Sally Spurring
Contributors
Unknown:
Mark
Lawson
Directed By:
Richard
Curtis
Unknown:
Hugh
Grant
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
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 Thompson
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 its
EU neighbours or with America in taking military control of multinational troops in central Iraq.
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 Grange
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 Carson
Digital only
3.00 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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