Presented by Michael Pickstock Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Pebble Mill
with Hope Sealy
Presented by John Humphrys and Jenni Murray
7.0,8.0 Today's News
Read by PAULINE BUSHNELL
7.25* Sport with CHARLES COLVILE
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective with JOHN NEWBURY, the BBC'S
Religious Affairs Correspondent Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY
Presented by Cliff Morgan
Expect delays on the Northern Line today: it's the Saturday of the final Test of the summer, against Pakistan at the Oval. (The MCC bicentenary celebrations are just around the corner.)
Producer PETER GRIFFITHS
Bernard Falk reports on holidays and travel. Susan Marling and Nigel Coombs make up the team that makes sense of the world of travel.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF For details of items in this week's programme please send sae to: [address removed]
unravelled, dangled or tied up by Ned Sherrin and the likes of Craig Charles Carol Thatcher , Emma Freud and Jonathan Ross. Plus Victor Lewis-Smith 's Look at Life Additional material by ALISTAIR BEATON
Producers LAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY
During the summer recess the programme leaves Westminster and joins five MPs for a political and personal tour around their constituencies.
2: Ross, Cromarty and Skye
Social Democrat MP
Charles Kennedy talks to Haig Gordon about Britain's largest constituency, which stretches across the highlands and islands of north Scotland.
Producer MARGARET hill
Producer DAVID POWELL
2: The Christening
Evelyn Waugh wrote that
'quotation is a national vice' and being led off the straight and narrow this week are William Franklyn A. N. Wilson
Mavis Nicholson and Rosemary Anne Sisson Devised and introduced by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Producer JO BUNTING. Stereo
Photographer the Earl of Lichfield presents, before an audience in the Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham, a selection of his favourite poetry and prose.
Readers ROBERT HARDY and FRANK WINDSOR Stereo
The connection between a knitting Bishop and Hare Pie hill is revealed as Gillian Reynolds and guests take a look at some of the best of Radio 4's magazine programmes. Producers LUCY LUNT andPlPPABURSTON
The Glory of the Lord by JOHN FLETCHER with and In the 60s Eric was a mod, his most glorious moments fighting on Brighton beach. Now he is a father with two young kids. His wife has left him and the violence of his youth has been transmuted into tenderness. Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol. Stereo
Jessica Holm , Jos Joslin and David Streeter tackle wildlife questions put by an audience at the Wildfowl Trust in Arundel. Introduced by Derek Jones
with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Jon Glover
With CLIVE ROSUN including Sports Round-up
Dr Anthony Clare 's subject is the cricketer Geoffrey Boycott , former captain of Yorkshire and England, much disliked by some and idolised by others.
Death and the Dancing Footman by NGAIO MARSH dramatised by ALAN DOWNER with and Jonathan Royal is a man rich enough to indulge his somewhat extravagant sense of the theatrical. But when he hits on the bizarre idea of throwing a weekend party with guests who have good reasons to loathe one another, his malicious comedy quickly turns to tragedy.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON Stereo (R)
Richard Baker presents a selection of words and music on record.
Producer JUDITH ROLES. Stereo
A Fatal Inversion by RUTH RENDELL writing as BARBARA VINE abridged in 14 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Lewis Fiander 7: A Woman of Mystery Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
A reading, a hymn and reflection led by Stephen Oliver Stereo
Keith Allan continues his inquiries into the traditional secrets of the keeper's craft with a visit to North Yorkshire to meet Stuart Cannon , a gamekeeper, as he prepares for the start of grouse-shooting on Wednesday.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Bernard Braden ambles through the world of transatlantic humour This week:
Look Ma, I'm Dancin'
Written by GEORGE BURNS
STEPHEN LEACOCK. GROUCHO MARX WILL ROGERS and MARK TWAIN Producer EDWARD TAYLOR Stereo
(This morning's programme with at least 2.5per cent extra)
followed by an interlude
