Listings
: Prayer for the Day
With Dr Joe Seferta.: Letter from America - a Celebration
To mark more than five decades of the world's longest-running speech radio programme, a chance to hear one of Alistair Cooke 's vintage broadcasts.Repeated from yesterday Repeated on Sunday at 8.45am
Contributors
Unknown:
Alistair
Cooke
: News Briefing
6.05 Papers6.08 Sports Desk
: Open Country
Richard U ridge explores rural life across the UK.Producer Benjamin Chesterton
Contributors
Unknown:
Richard
U
Producer:
Benjamin
Chesterton
: Today
With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.7.20 Yesterday in Parliament With Rachel Hooper.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought forthe Day With Brian Draper.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament
Contributors
Unknown:
James
Naughtie
Unknown:
Edward
Stourton.
Unknown:
Rachel
Hooper.
Unknown:
Brian
Draper.
: Home Truths
John Peel takes a wry look at the foibles of family life. Producer Bella Bannerman PHONE: [number removed] email: home.truths@bbc.co.ukContributors
Unknown:
John
Peel
Producer:
Bella
Bannerman
: Excess Baggage
Sandi Toksvig explores the adventures, frustrations and joys of travel.Producers Kevin Dawson and Torquil MacLeod I
Contributors
Unknown:
Sandi
Toksvig
Producers:
Kevin
Dawson
Producers:
Torquil
MacLeod
: A History of Human Folly
1/4. Group Think. Why did the Trojan rulers insist on dragging that suspicious-looking wooden horse inside their walls despite every reason to suspect a Greek trick? Francis Wheen examines the perennial tendency of politicians, scientists and others in authority to act perversely and how, when more rational alternatives are clearly present, the best and brightest can blithely march into colossal blunders. Producer Jolyon JenkinsContributors
Unknown:
Francis
Wheen
Producer:
Jolyon
Jenkins
: Week in Westminster
Peter Oborne discusses the week's political events. Producer Marie JesselContributors
Unknown:
Peter
Oborne
Producer:
Marie
Jessel
: From Our Own Correspondent
Insight and colour from BBC correspondents around the World, with KateAdie. Producer Tony GrantContributors
Producer:
Tony
Grant
: Money Box
Paul Lewis presents impartial advice and the latest news from the world of personal finance. Producer Jennifer Clarke Repeated tomorrow at 9pmContributors
Unknown:
Paul
Lewis
Producer:
Jennifer
Clarke
: The News Quiz
A tongue-in-cheek look at the week's news from Simon Hoggart , with Andy Hamilton , Alan Coren , Linda Smith and Jack Dee. Repeated from yesterdayContributors
Unknown:
Simon
Hoggart
Unknown:
Andy
Hamilton
Unknown:
Alan
Coren
Unknown:
Linda
Smith
Unknown:
Jack
Dee.
: News
: Any Questions?
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience at Queen's University, Belfast, puts questions on the issues of the week. Panellists include David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and Mark Durkan, who leads the SDLP. Repeated from yesterdayContributors
Unknown:
Jonathan
Dimbleby
Leader:
David
Trimble
Leader:
Mark
Durkan
: Any Answers?
Jonathan Dimblebytakes listeners' calls and emails in response to last night's Any Questions?PHONE: [number removed] email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk Producer Anne Peacock
Contributors
Unknown:
Jonathan
Dimblebytakes
Producer:
Anne
Peacock
: The Saturday Play: The Officers' Ward
After a shell explodes on the Western Front,Adrien Fournier regains consciousness in the silence of the Officers' Ward. He understands little except that his life has been altered for ever. He begins an unprecedented journey to the remotest outposts of human experience, where heroism, friendship, pity and humour take unexpected new forms. Dramatised by Mike Walker from thp nnvAl hv Marn Dugain.
Director John Taylor
Contributors
Unknown:
Adrien
Fournier
Dramatised By:
Mike
Walker
Unknown:
Marn
Dugain.
Director:
John
Taylor
Adrien:
Geoffrey
Streatfellc
Clémence:
Megan
Dodds
Pierre:
Alan
Con
Henri:
Nicholas
Rowe
Marguerite:
Maxine
Peake
Nurse:
Poppy
Miller
Doctor:
Jonathan
Keeble
Grichard:
Don
McCorklndale
: The District Nurse
2/2. A look at the work of a team of nurses in inner-cityBirmingham as they care for frail , sick and dying patients intheirhomes. FrankStitch is 94 years old, proud, demanding and frail. He relies almost entirely on his weekly visits from community nurse Lisa Rowe. And she tries to find out why other agencies are failing to provide the support to which he is entitled, Producer Brian King
Contributors
Unknown:
Lisa
Rowe.
: Weekend Woman's Hour
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney.Series editor Jill Burridge Producer Natasha Maw EMAIL: womanshour@bbc.co.uk
Contributors
Presented By:
Martha
Kearney.
Editor:
Jill
Burridge
: Saturday PM
News and sports headlines, presented by Dan Damon. Editor Peter RipponContributors
Presented By:
Dan
Damon.
Editor:
Peter
Rippon
: Back Row
With the release of Secret Window, Jim White wonders why so many Stephen King novels are a must for movie-makers. And is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey , really the best film Of the year? Producer Mohini PatelContributors
Unknown:
Jim
White
Unknown:
Stephen
King
Unknown:
Kate
Winslet
Unknown:
Jim
Carrey
Producer:
Mohini
Patel
: Six o'Clock News
MUSIC LIVE: Loose Ends
Ned Sherrin hosts the eclectic show from the LyricTheatre, Belfast, as part of the BBC's festival of live music. Producer Simon Clancy
Contributors
Unknown:
Ned
Sherrin
Producer:
Simon
Clancy
: Saturday Review
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests discuss the cultural highlights Of the week. Producer Fiona McLeanContributors
Unknown:
Tom
Sutcliffe
Producer:
Fiona
McLean
: Letters from a Northern Landscape
2/3. Jim Crumley visits three landscapes that are part of his belief system.Cam Elrig. A lowly outlier from which to view the great
Cairngorms. " . . . the loch is hidden until the last stride, as it is from the headwall. Sometimes in June it is host to a small flotilla of icebergs, barging into each other, crackling the space with echoes." Repeated from Sunday
Contributors
Unknown:
Jim
Crumley
: The Archive Hour: I Too Am America
The writer Caryl Phillips uses startling new evidence from a huge slave burial site discovered in New York City to expose the extent of slavery in both the northern and southern parts of the United States. The human remains discovered during routine building work in Manhattan smash the idea of slavery as a largely"Southern" phenomenon. The programme also draws on oral archive of the last people to be born into slavery in the American South and contrasts thei r experiences with surprising new detail about the lives of their northern counterparts. Producer Jane Beresford
Contributors
Unknown:
Caryl
Phillips
Producer:
Jane
Beresford
: Classic Serial: We
1/2. The first great dystopian novel of the 20th century, written in secret in early Soviet Russia by Yevgeni Zamyatin , and adapted by Sean O'Brien.In a post-revolutionary future, OneState is ruled according to the principles of rationality. The penalty for dissent is death. D-503, the chief engineer of the state, meets the beautiful 1-330. Her initial intentions seem innocent, but soon D starts to question her identity-and indeed his own.
Director Jim Poyser Repeated from Sunday
Contributors
Unknown:
Yevgeni
Zamyatin
Adapted By:
Sean
O'Brien.
Director:
Jim
Poyser
D-503:
Anton
Lesser
R-13:
Don
Warrington
U:
Briglt
Forsyth
1-330:
Joanna
Riding
0-90:
Julia
Rounthwalte
Benefactor:
Russell
Dixon
Tannoy:
Emma
Clarke
Babushka:
Judith
Davis
S:
Patrick
Bridgman
Second engineer:
Paul
Vlragh
: The Reith Lectures
3/5. Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Wole Soyinka argues that we are living in a new climate of fear, and examines the challenge this presents to democracy.The Rhetoric that Binds and Blinds. How language can stoke up the flames of fear. From the I max Theatre,
Bristol. Presented by Sue Lawley . Repeated from Wednesday
Contributors
Unknown:
Wole
Soyinka
Presented By:
Sue
Lawley
: Counterpoint
Ned Sherrin hosts another edition of the eclectic music quiz, from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Repeated from MondayContributors
Unknown:
Ned
Sherrin
: C Day-Lewis - Honest Dreams
This month, 100 years since his birth, the poet laureate Cecil Day-Lewis is remembered as having been a pillar of the Establishment. But in his youth he was a member of the Communist Party, dreaming - and writing- of revolution. With contributions from fellow poets Stephen Spender and Benjamin Zephaniah. Poems are read by David Holt. Presented by Muriel Gray. Repeated from SundayContributors
Unknown:
Cecil
Day-Lewis
Unknown:
Stephen
Spender
Unknown:
Benjamin
Zephaniah.
Read By:
David
Holt.
Presented By:
Muriel
Gray.
: Little Black Dress
3/5. Alma Martyr. Written and read by Susie Maguire. Radiating success, Midge is determined to give her old friends a day out to remember. They deserve it. Producer Lu KempContributors
Read By:
Susie
Maguire.
Producer:
Lu
Kemp
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