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SATURDAY
The War Games Files Radio 4, 8.00pm
In 1965 a documentary, The War Game, was suddenly removed from the BBC TV schedule. Hugh Carleton-Greene, the BBC directorgeneral at the time, said it was his decision as the film was "too shocking" for public transmission. The film's scenario is that in the event of a Soviet nuclear attack in the Sixties our Civil Defence plans were inadequate and would lead to millions of UK deaths. Previously secret Cabinet Office files reveal the pressure put on the BBC at the time from both the Wilson government and the Civil Service not to transmit it. Michael Apted, who began as a documentary maker then made such acclaimed movies as Gorillas in the Mist, is the presenter. His interviewees include Professor John Cook, whose Freedom of Information request brought the files to light. Produced by David Morley for independents Bite Media.
The Saturday morning archive slot on Radio 4 Extra (9.00am) is Barry Humphries: Gladdies All Over, with rare performances from Radio 4's Front Row, Radio 3's In Tune and Nightwaves plus contributions from Humphries as Dame Edna Everage, his notorious cultural attache Sir Les Patterson and ghostly veteran Sandy Stone. The presenter is the outrageous Kathy Lette.
Radio 3 Highlight: Beethoven's Missa Solemnis from Manchester's Bridgewater Hall (7.30pm). Radio 5 highlight: The Epsom Derby (4.30pm).
SUNDAY
Good Morning Sunday with Clare Balding Radio 2, 7.00am
It's the launch of Carers' Week on Radio 2, which offers help and advice for the 6.5million people who care, unpaid, for family and friends. Clare Balding talks to Helena Herklots, chief executive of the charity Carers UK. Jeremy Vine's show on Radio 2 at noon all week will also feature carers.
Christopher Le Brun, chairman of the Royal Academy, walks us round the RA summer exhibition in a private preview and shares some of his favourite music in Private Passions (Radio 3, noon).
WB Yeats and the Artifice of Eternity (Radio 3, 6.45pm) marks the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth with garlands from (among others) Ireland's current Professor of Poetry, Paula Meehan; Declan Kiberd of University College, Dublin and Ireland's poet-President, Michael D Higgins.
Sound the trumpets for John Osborne's A Patriot for Me (Radio 3, 10.00pm), the play that...