Listings
Pause for reflection, with Claire Campbell Smith.
Rural round-up and trends, presented by Anna Hill. Producer Alasdair Cross
Contributors
Presented By:
Anna
Hill.
Producer:
Alasdair
Cross
With Evan Davis and James Naughtie.
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Angela Tilby.
Contributors
Unknown:
Evan
Davis
Unknown:
James
Naughtie.
Unknown:
Angela
Tilby.
2/2. Futures and Options. Jeff Randall examines whether the seeds of the credit crunch were sown in London's past successes and considers what the future holds for the City as a financial centre.
Producer James Cook Shortened repeat at 9.30pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Jeff
Randall
Producer:
James Cook
Shortened
Led by Claire Campbell Smith. 0 Worship the King (Hanover). Revelation 1, vv4-8. Behold I
Am the First and the Last (James). Salvation Belongs to Our God (Howard and Turner).
Contributors
Unknown:
Claire Campbell
Smith.
4/5. Eleanor Bron reads Michael Holroyd 's s biography of Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. Terry's Lady Macbeth is a controversial success, but her relationship with Irving becomes distant and the fortunes of the Lyceum Theatre begin to look very precarious. Abridged by Richard Hamilton. For details see Monday Repeated at 12.30am
Contributors
Unknown:
Eleanor
Bron
Unknown:
Michael
Holroyd
Unknown:
Henry
Irving
Unknown:
Ellen
Terry.
Abridged By:
Richard
Hamilton.
Presented by Sheila McClennon.
10.45 The Dig 4/5 The Woman's Hour drama.
For details see drama repeat at 7.45pm
Contributors
Presented By:
Sheila
McClennon.
11/11. Northern Uganda. Callum Macrae visits northern Uganda, where one of Africa's s longest and most brutal civil wars was fought.
Producer Rebecca Fordham Rptd on Monday at 8,30pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Callum
MacRae
Producer:
Rebecca Fordham
Rptd
Bernard Cribbins pays tribute to comedy writer Mollie Millest , who wrote scripts for many of Kenneth
Home's radio shows, yet was content to remain in the background, living a double life as a member of the Salvation Army. Producer Stephen Garner
Contributors
Unknown:
Bernard
Cribbins
Unknown:
Mollie
Millest
Producer:
Stephen
Garner
Presented by Liz Barclay and John Waite.
Contributors
Presented By:
Liz
Barclay
Presented By:
John
Waite.
With Martha Kearney.
Contributors
Unknown:
Martha
Kearney.
Elinor Goodman visits the Chilterns, an area of outstanding natural beauty, to find out if this part of the UK really does offer the best rural life. Repeated from Saturday at 6.07am
Contributors
Unknown:
Elinor
Goodman
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm
3/3 The concluding part of John Dryden and Miriam Smith 's drama. Peter and Jennifer Whitelock arrive in Japan to help find their daughter's murderer. Peter puts his trust in a TV producer who promises to champion their cause, while Jennifer begins to receive calls from a man claiming to be the killer. Starring Lynne Hobday and Martin Burns. For cast and details see Tuesday
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Dryden
Unknown:
Miriam
Smith
Unknown:
Jennifer
Whitelock
Unknown:
Lynne
Hobday
Unknown:
Martin
Burns.
3/10. Interactive problem-solving programme providing answers to life's niggling dilemmas. Presented by Stewart Henderson. Producer Kevin Dawson PHONE: [number removed] email: [address removed]
Contributors
Presented By:
Stewart
Henderson.
Producer:
Kevin
Dawson
Rptd from Sunday at 7.55am
4/5. Flight of Freedom. A failed drug-dealer spends his time hanging out on a London street corner near the tower block where he lives alone. Then one day he develops a worryingly insistent itch, between the shoulder blades. Courttia Newland 's story is read by Don Gilet. For details see Monday
Contributors
Unknown:
Courttia
Newland
Read By:
Don
Gilet.
4/30 New France astride America's
Heartland. The story of French movement from the north to the south, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi. A history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. For details see Monday
Contributors
Presented By:
David
Reynolds.
Repeated from Sunday at 4pm
How do trace metals find their way into polar ice in regions when there is no evidence of volcanic activity nearby? Scientists studying volcanoes have recently discovered that they are a source of tiny nanoparticles, which could be responsible for everything from cloud formation reflecting solar radiation back into space to seeding distant patches of barren ocean with nutrients. Quentin Cooper looks at the microscopic end of the earth-shattering volcanic activity.
Contributors
Presenter:
Quentin
Cooper
Producer:
Peter
McHugh
New series 1/6. Phill Jupitus
Marcus Brigstocke cajoles his guests into doing some everyday thing for the very first time. His first victim is
Phill Jupitus who tries a Findus Crispy Pancake and a pig's trotter, and reads his first Jane Austen novel. Producer Bill Dare Radio features: pages 118-119
Contributors
Unknown:
Phill
Jupitus
Unknown:
Marcus
Brigstocke
Unknown:
Phill
Jupitus
Unknown:
Jane
Austen
Matt enters alien territory.
For cast see Friday Repeated tomorrow at 2pm
With Mark Lawson , including the first-night verdict on Kenneth Branagh in the title role of Chekhov's Ivanov, in a version by Tom Stoppard. Producer Timothy Prosser
Contributors
Unknown:
Mark
Lawson
Unknown:
Kenneth
Branagh
Unknown:
Tom
Stoppard.
Producer:
Timothy
Prosser
4/5. By John Preston. The public are invited to see the excavations at Sutton Hoo and a row erupts about where the treasure should be deposited. Starring Anna Madeley.
For cast and details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Preston.
Unknown:
Anna
Madeley.
2/3. The case of Suez Maru, a Japanese ship transporting Allied
PoWs in 1943 who were massacred at sea. Despite the perpetrators being taken into custody, a decision was made not to prosecute those responsible for the crimes. Mike Thomson pieces the story together through official documents, before talking to a defence counsel of the International
Criminal Court in the Hague about whether the case Can still be tried. Producer Neil McCarthy
Contributors
Unknown:
Mike
Thomson
Producer:
Neil
McCarthy
4/8. Casino Capitalism. What can financiers learn about risk management from gambling and the casinos that do it every day of the week? Peter Day asks the experts. Producer Sandra Kanthal Repeated on Sunday at 9.30pm
5/6. The Politics of Famine. Investigating the politics of famine to uncover whether the food policies of many UK-based agencies are actually contributing to, rather than alleviating, the problem.
Producer Kaylois Henry Repeated tomorrow at 3pm
Contributors
Producer:
Kaylois
Henry
Shortened repeat from 9am
With Robin Lustig.
Contributors
Unknown:
Robin
Lustig.
9/10. Ellen has agreed to divorce Avery, but refuses to accept his money as alimony, In the meantime his son and daughter continue to reject their father. By Dorothy Whipple. For details see Monday
Contributors
Unknown:
Dorothy
Whipple.
4/5. Jon Ronson explores possible ways of slowing down or even stopping time. He talks to a scientist who is developing a means of time travel and meets the world record holder for staying awake (thus doubling his time on this earth). Comedian Danny Robins tries to stop time by going to live in a house in the Scottish Borders that is frozen time in 1793. Producer Simon Jacobs
Contributors
Unknown:
Jon
Ronson
Unknown:
Danny
Robins
Producer:
Simon
Jacobs
3/4. James Naughtie visits Fort Riley in Kansas, a base with a key role in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. He examines the use of the military as an instrument of US foreign policy and assesses the direction the country might take after November's presidential election. For details see Tuesday
Contributors
Unknown:
James
Naughtie
Unknown:
Fort
Riley
4/5. By Michael Holroyd. Repeated from 9.45am
Contributors
Unknown:
Michael
Holroyd.