Listings
: Today
With Sarah Montague and Carolyn Quinn.6.25,7.25,8.25 Sports News
With Garry Richardson.
7.48 Thought for the Day
With Clifford Longley.
8.55 August 1945
6/12. For details see Saturday
Contributors
Unknown:
Sarah
Montague
Unknown:
Carolyn
Quinn
Unknown:
Garry
Richardson
Unknown:
Clifford
Longley
: Start the Week
Andrew Marr and guests set the cultural agenda for the week. Producer Alice Feinstein Shortened repeat at 9.30pmContributors
Unknown:
Andrew
Marr
Producer:
Alice
Feinstein
: Book of the Week: The Hungry Years - Confessions of a Food Addict
1/5. The Fattest Day of My Life. John Sessions reads from journalist William Leith's memoirs of his struggle to lose weight and overcome his addictions. it's early2003 and William Leith weighs 16 stone 121b, the heaviest he has ever been. On arrival in New York to interview diet guru Robert Atkins, he follows along the pavements of Manhattan a 20-stone woman who serves him the horrible reminder that he's fat! Abridged by Neville Teller.
Repeated at 12.30am
RT DIRECT: Accompanying book available for ã9.99 (RRP ã10.99) including p&p. Call [number removed] (national rate).
Contributors
Reader:
John
Sessions
Author:
William
Leith
Abridged by:
Neville
Teller
Producer:
Clive
Stanhope
: Daily Service
Presented by Canon Noel Vincent. Let All the World in Every Corner Sing (Luckington). Psalm 44, vv4-10; 23-26.0 Lord. Arise (Weelkes). 0 God, Our Help in Ages Hast (StAnne). With the Coupland Consort. Director of music Marcus Farnsworth. Organist Christopher Stokes.
Contributors
Presented By:
Canon Noel
Vincent.
Organist:
Marcus
Farnsworth.
Organist:
Christopher
Stokes.
: Woman's Hour from 10.20
Presented by Jenni Murray.10.45 The Low Road By Valerie Miner. The Wom an's Hour drama. For details see drama repeat 7.45pm
Contributors
Presented By:
Jenni
Murray.
Unknown:
Valerie
Miner.
: Test Match Special
England v AustraliaThe final day's play in the Second Test at Edgbaston.
Including at 12.35pm News; Your Letters Answerea
Producer Peter Baxter *approximate time
Contributors
Producer:
Peter
Baxter
: Lives in a Landscape
5/6. The Base. Tidworth in Wiltshire is home to the 1st Battalion Staffordshire Regiment, currently serving in Iraq It's hard for the wives and children who are lert at home to carry on with their daily routines while coping daily with news of injuries and death in a hostile country thousands of miles away. Producer Neil GeorgeContributors
Producer:
Neil
George
: Be Prepared .....
New series 1/4. Survival. Miles Rummings is determined to run a scout troop, and so four misfits attempt to venture where no scout has ventured before. By Gerard hosier. Producer/Director Sally AvensContributors
Unknown:
Miles
Rummings
Unknown:
Gerard
Hosier.
Director:
Sally
Avens
Miles:
Kim
Wall
Jason:
Louis
Dunsford
Dawn:
Emma
Amos
Steve:
Barnbaby
Power
Farmer:
Gerard
McDermott
: You and Yours
Consumer issues, with Peter White and Liz Barclay.Contributors
Unknown:
Peter
White
Unknown:
Liz
Barclay.
: Brain of Britain
New series 1/17. Four contestants from London compete in the first round of the nationwide general knowledge contest. Robert Robinson is in the chair. Producer Richard Edis Repeated on Saturday at 11pmContributors
Unknown:
Robert
Robinson
Producer:
Richard
Edis
: The Archers
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm: Afternoon Play: The Glasswright
By Liz Kuti.A commission for a commemorative window saves a glasswright from ruin. But when the recently dead subject begins dictating the style of the work, he is forced to reconsider undertaking the project.
Contributors
Writer:
Liz
Kuti
Director:
Eoin
O'Callaghan
Glasswright:
Tim
McInnerny
Sarah:
Amy
Marston
Priest:
Nickolas
Grace
Merchant:
Robert
Price
Alice:
Jasmine
Hyde
: Inside Money
Repeat of Saturday at 12.04pm: The Reggie Pepper Stories
1/5 Absent Treatment. Reggie attempts to cure his chum Bobby Cardew of a remarkable weakness of memory. Martin Jarvis reads this series of stories by PG Wodehouse involving idiocy, misplaced good intentions and sheer comic genius. Producer Rosalind AyresContributors
Unknown:
Bobby
Cardew
Unknown:
Martin
Jarvis
Stories By:
Pg
Wodehouse
Producer:
Rosalind
Ayres
: The Old Bill
1/5. Financial Returns. What do the Tory agents accounts in the constituency of Westminster tell us about the election of 1774? Richard Foster reveals lives and stories that stem from old bills - a basic source of research for historians. Technical presentation Neil Gardner Producer Merilyn HarrisContributors
Unknown:
Richard
Foster
Unknown:
Neil
Gardner
Producer:
Merilyn
Harris
: The Food Programme
Dylan Winter travels to western Canada to explore the foods of the First Nations (indigenous) people and to find out what lumberjacks survive on during their long tour of duty. Presented by Sheila Dillon. Repeated from yesterday at 12.30pmContributors
Presented By:
Sheila
Dillon.
: Beyond Belief
6/13 Ernie Rea presents more conversations with guests about the place of faith in today's complex world. Producer Kathryn BlennerhassettContributors
Unknown:
Ernie
Rea
Producer:
Kathryn
Blennerhassett
: Just a Minute
5/9 Paul Merton , Clement Freud , Rob Brydon and Chris Neill try not to repeat, hesitate or deviate from the subject given to them by Nicholas Parsons in the most devious of panel games. From the Mermaid Theatre, London. producer Claire Jones Repeated on Sunday at 12.04pmBBC AUDIO: Several series of Just a Minute are available on audio cassette and CD, including the recently released Just a Minute 8, from good retail outlets or from www.bbcshop.com, or by calling [number removed]
Contributors
Unknown:
Paul
Merton
Unknown:
Clement
Freud
Unknown:
Rob
Brydon
Unknown:
Chris
Neill
Unknown:
Nicholas
Parsons
: The Archers
Neil and Susan tighten their belts.For cast see page 38 Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
: Front Row
Kirsty Lang presents the arts magazine, with news, interviews and reviews. Producer Stephen HughesContributors
Unknown:
Kirsty
Lang
Producer:
Stephen
Hughes
: The Low Road
1/5. By Valerie Miner , who, as she grew up in America, used to listen to her mother's memories of her native Edinburgh. Orphaned in her teens, her mother left Scotland in 1930, travelling alone with 50 dollars in her pocket to begin a new life in the USA. Here, the parallel diaries of mother and daughter chronicle Mary's new life in America and Valerie's guest to understand her family's dislocated past. Valerie searches Edinburgh for her mother's old haunts and finds an old man who remembers Fairley's Cafe and Dance Hall, where Mary used to work as a waitress.Producer/Director Kate McAII Repeated from 10.45am
Contributors
Unknown:
Valerie
Miner
Director:
Kate
McAii
Valerie:
Nancy
Crane
Mary:
Colette
O'Neil
: After the Gold Rush
Thirty years ago the first drops of North Sea oil sailed up the Thames on a Texan tanker. Tom Morton celebrates the lives of the mavericks and risk-takers who created Britain's oil industry. Producer Alasdair CrossContributors
Unknown:
Tom
Morton
Producer:
Alasdair
Cross
: The Howling Terror Mystery
In July 1900, at a scenic spot near Brighton known as Devil's Dyke, an enormous megaphone sent a human voice hurtling across the South Downs. In the pre-electronic amplification and pre-radio era this new invention fascinated and terrified local people. Newspapers labelled it "The Howling Terror" and prophesied that its diabolical broadcasts would dominate the forthcoming 20th century - yet today it's forgotten. Alan Dein resurrects its strange story.Contributors
Presenter:
Alan
Dein
Producer:
Matthew
Dodd
: Native Science
Adam Fowler travels into Interior and Arctic Alaska to meet native Alaskans, who have noticed signs of climate change since the 1970s. Intriguingly, he discovers that many elders believe it to be a result of man exploring the moon. He also finds that it's only recently that scientists have begun to utilise this source of knowledge to help establish the impact and implications of climate change. Producer Kate BissellContributors
Unknown:
Adam
Fowler
Producer:
Kate
Bissell
: Start the Week
Shortened repeat from 9am: The World Tonight
News and analysis, with Claire Bolderson.Contributors
Unknown:
Claire
Bolderson.
: Book at Bedtime: The Thirty-First of June
1/5. A comedy fairy tale for the summer, in which artistSam Penty of advertising agents Wallaby, Dimmock, Paly and Tooks falls in love with Princess Melicent, daughter of King Meliot of Peradore, although he has never met her. By JB Priestley , and read by Nicky Henson. Producer Chris Wallis
Contributors
Artist:
Sam
Penty
Unknown:
Jb
Priestley
Read By:
Nicky
Henson.
Producer:
Chris
Wallis
: Home Truths
Repeated from Saturday at 9am: News
: Book of the Week: The Hungry Years -Confessions of a Food Addict
1/5. The Fattest Day of My Life. John Sessions reads from William Leith 's memoirs of his struggle to lose weight and overcome his addictions. Rptd from 9.45amContributors
Unknown:
John
Sessions
Unknown:
William
Leith
: Analysis
: News
: Secrets in the Sand
Looking at how US military officials fear that the Sahara desert could become the next al-Oaeda base: News
: News
: Outlook
: Off the Shelf Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance (2/5) For details see yesterday
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