Listings
: Precious Cargo
3/5. Veteran officers in the merchant marine recall their youth on board ship. Presented by Dylan Winter. Producer Frances ByrnesContributors
Presented By:
Dylan
Winter.
Producer:
Frances
Byrnes
: Open Country
Exploring rural life around Britain.Producer Sandra Sykes Repeated on Thursday at 1.30pm
Contributors
Producer:
Sandra
Sykes
: Farming Today This Week
Miriam O'Reilly reports on the food-chain issue of the week. Producer Chris ImpeyContributors
Unknown:
Miriam
O'Reilly
Producer:
Chris
Impey
: Today
With Carolyn Quinn and Edward Stourton.7.20 Yesterday in Parliament With Mark D'Arcy.
7.25 and 8.25 Sports News With Steve May.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
8.51 Yesterday in Parliament
Contributors
Unknown:
Carolyn
Quinn
Unknown:
Edward
Stourton.
Unknown:
Mark
D'Arcy.
Unknown:
Roy
Jenkins.
: Saturday Live
It's real life, but not as you know it. Fi Glover presides over a volatile studio with the assistance of Joan Bakewell.Loud plaid jacket and poetry courtesy of Elvis McGonagall. Producer Paula McGinley
Contributors
Unknown:
Fi
Glover
Unknown:
Joan
Bakewell.
Unknown:
Elvis
McGonagall.
Producer:
Paula
McGinley
: ExcessBaggage
John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys Of travel. Producer Harry ParkerContributors
Unknown:
John
McCarthy
Producer:
Harry
Parker
: Corridors of Power
When it comes to fictionalising their governments for television the Americans and the British produce very different results. Compare the slick reverence of The West Wing to the satire of Yes Minister, which portrayed ministers as shambolic idiots. Former Ambassador to the USA Sir Christopher Meyer talks o writers from both programmes, to fans and political junkies such as Shami Chakrabati , and to Ian Hislop to find out why American optimism and British cynicism inevitably create such different worlds. Producer Rachel HooperContributors
Talks:
Sir Christopher
Meyer
Unknown:
Shami
Chakrabati
Unknown:
Ian
Hislop
Producer:
Rachel
Hooper
: Week in Westminster
Elinor Goodman takes a look behind the scenes of Westminster's corridors of power. Editor Marie JesselContributors
Unknown:
Elinor
Goodman
Editor:
Marie
Jessel
: From Our own
A lively collection of dispatches from the BBC's foreign correspondents. Presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony GrantRT DIRECT- From Our Own Correspondent, edited by Tony Grant , is available for £15.99 (RRP £.6.99) including p&p. Call [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute)
Contributors
Presented By:
Kate
Adie
Producer:
Tony
Grant
Edited By:
Tony
Grant
: Money Box
Paul Lewis with the latest personal finance news. Producer Chris A'Court Repeated tomorrow at 9pmContributors
Unknown:
Paul
Lewis
: The News Quiz
8/8. Sandi Toksvig presides over the satirical quiz, testing the panel's knowledge of the news stories of the week.Repeated from yesterday
RT DIRECT- The News Quiz: Hold the Front Page, is available on CD for £8.99 (RRP £ 2 99) plus free p&P, call [number removed](landline calls cost a maximum of 8p per min) or send a cheque payable to BBC Shop to BBC Shop, [address removed]. quoting [text removed]
Contributors
Unknown:
Sandi
Toksvig
: News
: Any Questions?
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the discussion as an audience in Norfolk poses topical questions from the week's news to a panel that includes Sarah Teather MP and Times journalist Anatole Kaletsky. Repeated from yesterdayContributors
Unknown:
Jonathan
Dimbleby
Unknown:
Sarah
Teather
Unknown:
Anatole
Kaletsky.
: Any Answers?
Listeners' calls and emails taken by Jonathan Dimbleby in response to Any Questions? Producer Lisa JenkinsonPHONE- [number removed] (calls from land lines cost no more than 8p per minute) Lines open from 12.30pm; email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk
Contributors
Unknown:
Jonathan
Dimbleby
Producer:
Lisa
Jenkinson
: The Saturday Play: Safe as Houses
When Ruth and Ellie are sent in to clear a Ministry of Defence safe house in a remote part of Devon, there are disturbing clues as to the identity of the person who was living there. What's more, news comes in that someone has found out who he is and tried to shoot him, so he's now on the run. Written by Peter Wolf.Producer/Director Cherry Cookson
Contributors
Written By:
Peter
Wolf.
Director:
Cherry
Cookson
Ruth:
Juliet
Aubrey
Ellie:
Paula
Jacobs
Angus:
Struan
Rodger
Harding:
Stephen
Hogan
Junior:
Declan
Wilson
Andre:
Jason
Chan
Brigadier:
Andrew
Harrison
Undersecretary:
Nicholas
Boulton
Julie:
Ndidi Del
Fatti
: Finding a Voice
Barbara Dickson charts the story of the female singer in the 20th century, when women rose from being seen as the victims of an industry dominated by men to being fully in control of their own singing careers. Repeated from TuesdayContributors
Unknown:
Barbara
Dickson
: Weekend Woman's Hour
The best of the week on Woman's Hour, presented by Martha Kearney. Editor Jill Burridge EMAIL: womanshour@>bbc.co.uk RT DIRECT: Woman's Hour a Celebration of Mothers, featuring excerpts from the programme, is available on audio cassette and CD for £8.99, including p&p, from www.bbcshop.com, or by calling [number removed], quoting [number removed]Contributors
Presented By:
Martha
Kearney.
Editor:
Jill
Burridge
: Saturday PM
Presented by Nigel Wrench. Editor Peter RipponContributors
Presented By:
Nigel
Wrench.
Editor:
Peter
Rippon
: The Bottom Line
5/9. The biggest names in business talk frankly about the workplace issues that matter, from the boardroom to the shop floor and from building success to handling failure. Presented by Evan Davis. Producer Neil KoenigContributors
Presented By:
Evan
Davis.
Producer:
Neil
Koenig
: Loose Ends
Ned Sherrin welcomes more guests for sparkling conversation, comedy and music. Producer Cathie MahoneyContributors
Unknown:
Ned
Sherrin
Producer:
Cathie
Mahoney
: From Fact to Fiction
2/8. A writer provides a satirical take on the week's news headlines by turning fact into fiction.Producer Conor Lennon Repeated tomorrow at 5.40pm
Contributors
Producer:
Conor
Lennon
: Saturday Review
Sarfraz Manzoor and guests Bridget Kendall , Patrick Gale and Susan Jeffreys debate the hottest cultural events of the week, including Ridley Scott 's A Good Year, which stars Russell Crowe as an Englishman who inherits a vineyard in Provence. Producer Nicki PaxmanContributors
Unknown:
Sarfraz
Manzoor
Unknown:
Bridget
Kendall
Unknown:
Patrick
Gale
Unknown:
Susan
Jeffreys
Unknown:
Ridley
Scott
Unknown:
Russell
Crowe
Producer:
Nicki
Paxman
: The Archive Hour: Suez - the Missing Dimension
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Suez crisis,Professor Scott Lucas examines the key role played by British intelligence services in the ill-fated invasion of Egypt. He uses new evidence to uncover how MI6 planned for the overthrow of Egypt's President
Nasser, how it shocked CIA colleagues with the proposal to use Israel in the attempt, and how it eventually produced the plan for "psychological warfare" that failed in November 1956, with catastrophic results for the Eden government. Producer Simon Jacobs
Contributors
Unknown:
Professor Scott
Lucas
Producer:
Simon
Jacobs
: Classic Serial: The Cairo Trilogy
2/3. Omar Sharif stars in this family saga chronicling the downwardly mobile life of a middle-class family in early20th-century Egypt. This episode covers the late 1920s to the mid-1930s, when an outbreak of typhoid has a tragic effect on the family. Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from the novels of Naguib Mahfouz , the Nobel Prize-winning
Egyptian writer who died in August. Recorded in Egypt.
Other cast members: Nairy Avedissian , Radwa Elgabry , Salah Fahmy Yara Goubran , Caroline Khalil , Rena Malak , Dina Nadim , Ahmed Nour Sherif Nour , Ola Roshdy , Sedky Sakhar , Hany Seef , Saymaa Shalan , Hugh Sowden , Mika Thabet Yeve Youssef and Ekram Zalat
Music by Sacha Puttnam Producer/Director John Dryden Rptd from Sunday
Contributors
Unknown:
Omar
Sharif
Dramatised By:
Ayeesha
Menon
Unknown:
Naguib
Mahfouz
Unknown:
Nairy
Avedissian
Unknown:
Radwa
Elgabry
Unknown:
Salah
Fahmy
Unknown:
Yara
Goubran
Unknown:
Caroline
Khalil
Unknown:
Rena
Malak
Unknown:
Dina
Nadim
Unknown:
Ahmed
Nour
Unknown:
Sherif
Nour
Unknown:
Ola
Roshdy
Unknown:
Sedky
Sakhar
Unknown:
Hany
Seef
Unknown:
Saymaa
Shalan
Unknown:
Hugh
Sowden
Unknown:
Mika
Thabet
Unknown:
Yeve
Youssef
Unknown:
Ekram
Zalat
Music By:
Sacha
Puttnam
Director:
John
Dryden
Old Kamal:
Omar
Sharif
Kamal:
Amr
Waked
Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab:
Lhab
Sakkout
Aida:
Shirine El
Ansari
Zanuba:
Maryam El
Khoshed
Zubayda:
Zeinab
Moubarak
Yasin:
Tamer
Nasrat
: The Moral Maze
4/11. Michael Buerk chairs a debate in which Melanie Phillips , Steven Rose , Claire Fox and Clifford Longley cross-examine expert witnesses on the moral issues behind the Week's news. Repeated from WednesdayContributors
Unknown:
Michael
Buerk
Unknown:
Melanie
Phillips
Unknown:
Steven
Rose
Unknown:
Claire
Fox
Unknown:
Clifford
Longley
: Brain of Britain
8/17. Four contestants from the Midlands and East Anglia compete in the continuing first round of the nationwide general knowledge contest. The chairman is Robert Robinson. Repeated from MondayContributors
Unknown:
Robert
Robinson.
: Poetry Please
4/7. Roger McGough presents a selection of poems with seasonal sentiments, including Rich Days, The Burning of the Leaves, Autumn Journal and October Dusk, read by Jenny Coverack , Philip Franks and Andrew Sachs. Repeated from SundayContributors
Unknown:
Roger
McGough
Read By:
Jenny
Coverack
Read By:
Philip
Franks
Read By:
Andrew
Sachs.
: Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch
3/5. Pentecost - a Flashback. A prayer meeting in war-time Glasgow is rudely interrupted and the life of Mrs Funny , the hall caretaker, is changed for ever. Tamara Kennedy reads another supernatural short story from the classic 1949 collection by Scottish author Dorothy K Haynes. Producer David Jackson YoungContributors
Unknown:
Mrs
Funny
Unknown:
Tamara
Kennedy
Unknown:
Dorothy K
Haynes.
Producer:
David Jackson
Young
: World Briefing
1.00 BBC WorldDrama Four. Four - Straight Town: another chance to hear this award-winning play by Desmond Ntshalintshali , set among taxi drivers in Mandela-era Johannesburg
Contributors
Play By:
Desmond
Ntshalintshali
: News
: Sports Round-up 430 Politics UK
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