With THE RT REV PATRICK KELLY. Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor 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 7 25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
8.50* Letters
Write to: TodaY Letters.
BBC. London W1A 1AA
with Libby Purves producer ANGIENEHRING Stereo
visits Oxfordshire, where members of the Eynsham Horticultural Society put their queries to
Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward.
Chairman Clay Jones Producer DIANA STENSON BBCManchester
Mother Will Be Pleased byTEDMOORE .
Read by Caroline Pickles producer SHEILA FOX
NEM p 46; 0 thou who earnest from above (BBC HB 362);
Psalm 100; John 1, w 19-28,
God of grace and God of glory (BBC HB 391) Stereo
A series of six programmes in which Alex Ferguson struggles with the governors of the (almost) imaginary Bilton School.
2; Spring Term
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Presented by John Howard
A series of four programmes. In 1980, Tom Vernon cycled from the Italian Alps to the Mezzogiorno.
3:The Roads near Rome
Producer JOY HATWOOD. Stereo (R)
Presented by James Naughtie
Written by GRAHAM HARVEY
BBC Pebbk Mill
1.55 Listening Corner Today's story: Crackers and the Duchess Stereo (R)
2.05 WPFM Presented by JO WHILEY. Producer NICK WARE. Stereo (e) Phone [number removed] (free), lines open from 2.15-3.15pm
Jenni Murray meets the award-winning novelist Jeannette Winterson.
Serial: The Skin Chairs (8)
A short story by SHUSAKO ENDO dramatised by PENNY LEICESTER . With
Obsessed by the persecution of 17th-century Japanese
Catholics and conscious of his own failings as a Catholic,
Suguro visits Mount Unzen, where 300 years earlier, Christians were tortured and killed.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo
The second of five programmes in which George MacBeth talks with the poet and occasional playwright Carol Ann Duffy about her life and work. Reader UN SAGOVSKY.
Producer ALEC REID. BBC Bristol
As Ronald Reagan prepares to leave the White House,
Helen Boaden reports on the future direction of New Right politics in the United States, and its message for
President-Elect Bush. Producer VICKY WHITFIELD Editor GERRY NORTHAM BBC Manchester
Rediscovering Gauguin
Public interest in Gauguin's life as an artistic recluse living among the natural beauties of Tahiti has often superceded the interest in his paintings. Now, in the Grand Palais in Paris, the largest collection of his works ever assembled re-examines the range of his art and his working methods.
Presenter Paul Allen
Producer JUUAN MAY . Stereo
Presented by Robert Williams and Frances Coverdale
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PMLetters; 5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55
including Financial Report
Last programme in the series in which Iain Johnstone hosts the celebrity panel show. This week's panel are Dick Vosburgh, Susan George, Simon MacCorkindale and Barry Cryer.
(Stereo) (R)
(Details tomorrow at 9.05am LW)
A series offourprogrammes in which Christopher Nicholson explores the relationship between English landscape and literature from 1700 to the present day.
1: The Landscape GardenersIn the 18th century, gardens were designed to be read like poems, poets sat in damp grottos and meditated on life, and landowners employed peasants to pretend to be early Christian hermits. Producer NICOLA BARRANGER (First broadcast on BBC World Service)
with Geoff Watts.
Producer NICHOLAS MORGAN
In 1771 a handful of young Scots travelled to the St Ambrose
Church of Valladolid in Spain to train for the priesthood.
Since then the seminary has attracted hundreds of students, who spend seven formative years in exile.
Reevel Alderson traces the Spanish connection.
Producer CAROLINE ADAM
BBC Scotland
The acclaimed director of Cheek by Jowl, Declan Donnellan , makes his debut at the National Theatre with Fuente Ovejuna, a play by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega; and a new film, Pascali's Island, stars
Ben Kingsley , Charles Dance and Helen Mirren.
Presenter Christopher Bigsby Producer ANTHONY DENSELOW Stereo
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (18)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
Help Yourself: A-Level Physics Producer JULIAN COLEMAN. Stereo (e) at 12.30 Simple Harmonic Motion and at 12.50 Gravity