With THE VEN NOEL JONES, Chaplain of the Fleet Stereo
Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With CHARLES COL VILE
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Producer ANGIE NEHRING Stereo
This week Clay Jones and his team of Dr Stefan Buczacki. Fred Downham and Sue Phillips answer gardening queries sent in by post. Producer DIANA STENSON BBC Manchester
Questions, on postcards only, please, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ
The Boatman byDEREHSMITH
Read by Daniel Webb Producer SHEILA FOX
nem, p 97; Thou, whose almighty word (BBC HB 185); Gloria in excelsis Deo; Matthew 5, vv 17-26; Soldiers of Christ, arise (BBC HB 365) Stereo
From the apparently obvious to the downright obscure, Dilly Barlow attempts to answer your questions with advice from experts and help from the BBC Reference Library.
Producer CATHY DRYSDALE
Questions, please. to: Enquire Within BBC, London W1A 1AA
tackles your problems and explains how events and issues of the day will affect you and your family.
Presented by John Buckley
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Presented by Nick Worrall with news and topics in and behind the headlines
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Playing at Home Stereo (R)
2.05 WPFM Radical youth radio presented by GARY CROWLEY Stereo (e) Ring [number removed] between 2.15 and 3. 15pm for more information on programme items and free factsheets
Should you have the right to dictate your child's curriculum, veto the appointment of teachers and decide the length of the school day? In the programme that explores the backbone of everyday life,
Pat Rowe investigates the changing role of parent-governors.
Serial: The Phoenix Tree (11) Presenter Jenni Murray
by KEITH HAGENBACH with and A policeman's lot is not always a happy one, as Tony discovers when he spots a familiar face while holidaying on the Costa del Crime.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo
The fourth of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks to Jeni Couzyn about her life and poetry.
Reader liane AUKIN Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
Reporter Max Easterman Producer david MILLER Editor BRIAN WALKER BBC Manchester
Still Life with Spring RoUs
Among the teeming streets of Hong Kong are hundreds of artists producing a surprising commodity - old masters. Handmade and skilfully reproduced, these are not forgeries but are intended for clients who can't afford a genuine Rembrandt or Van Gogh. How does it feel to paint a Leonardo? Is a Constable easier than a Cezanne?
Christopher Cook investigates the business of masterpieces. Producer SIMON BROUGHTON
Presented by Rory Maclean and Robert Williams
5,00, 5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50.55
with BRIAN PERKINS including Financial Report
This week in the quotation game Martin Jarvis reveals the fastest Hamlet on record, and Humphrey Lyttelton reviles the most famous song in the world. The other guests are
Gemma O'Connor and Dr Stefan Buczacki.
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher
Producer LISSA EVANS. Stereo
(Re-broadcast tomorrow at 1. 40pm)
(Details tomorrow at 9.05am L W)
A series of six programmes. Robert Cushman in conversation with Tom Stoppard
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE Stereo (R)
In the fourth of five programmes examining the state of the art of oratory,
Melvyn Bragg talks to some of those who regularly make public speeches as part of their job: in the law courts, in churches and chapels, sales conferences and on the professional after-dinner circuits:
A series of eight portraits presented by Hugh 0' Shaughnessy 4: Patricia Lara
Why is Colombia so violent? This is the question that perplexes Patricia Lara as she works on an article for her newspaper El Tiempo.
For a political journalist like her, it's an important week. Colombia is preparing for its first-ever local elections, after a campaign marked by violence and killings.
Series producer MICK WEBB. Stereo
Natalie Wheen presents tonight's arts magazine, which includes a review of the National Gallery exhibition of masterpieces from Russian galleries. Producer JOHN BOUNDY
(Rev re-broadcast tomorrow at
4.35pm)
Riceyman Steps (13)
Presented by Alexander MacLeod
FM joins at 12.10
