Stereo
Presenters Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor
Regional Variations (2)
Desert Island Discs
Sue Lawley's castaway is actress Joan Collins. Show more
with Daniel Snowman.
5: Alain Touraine recalls how reading Homer in Greek led to his becoming a sociologist.
Producers CAROLE LACEY and ADAM RAPHAEL
Dolly's Mother by MAEVE BINCHY
Read by Stella McCusker Producer EOIN O'CALLAGHAN BBC Northern Ireland
Christ is our cornerstone; 1 Peter 2, w 4-10; Psalm 118, w 14-24; Church of God, elect and glorious Stereo
(Details as Thursday 8.00pm)
Last in the series of the children's book programme presented by Penelope Lively.
Novelist Susan Hill and Brough Girling , author and director of the Children's Book
Foundation, recommend some recently published summer holiday reading. Producer JILL BURRIDGE
Presenter John Waite
Q: What is Bordeaux mixture?
A: A fungicide
Check your gardening knowledge against two teams led by Irene Thomas and Norman Painting.
This week's guests are
Vivian Ellis , Jill Balcon , Pam Ayres and Bernard Bresslaw.
Questionmaster
Dr Stefan Buczacki Producer IAN STRACHAN BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presenter Brian Widlake
The Big Sleep Party Stereo
Introduced by Ruth Wishart in Glasgow Short story: Dr Bertoloni and the Soft Fruits by USA ST AUBIN DE TERAN abridged by JACK SINGLETON. Reader
Lynda Bellingham
Producer PAT MCLOUGHUN (Music: Lloyd Webber's Variations)
by CHARLES DICKENS adapted in seven episodes by NICK MCCARTY. With
1: Beginnings
A man buried 18 years and now 'recalled to life' is the first link in a chain binding London and Paris at the height of the French Revolution. and JOHN MOFFATT.
RICHARD PEARCE. RICHARD TATE and JOHN WARNER.
Music by Wilfredo Acosta Technical presentation by PETER NOVIS. WILFREDO ACOSTA , IAN HARKER and SUSAN KEYNON.
Director IAN COTTERELL. Stereo 0 FEATURE: page 64
CASSETTES, ZBBC 1074-5, available now from book and records shops
(Details as Sunday 8.30pm)
Stereo (Details Thurs 9.45pm)
with Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams including reports from Wimbledon.
and Financial Report
with Clive Jacobs ,
Tom Boswell and Alex Lester. Producer MOLLY PRICE-OWEN
(Repeatednext Monday 1. 40pm)
with Margaret Howard Producer TIM SUTER Stereo
The panel includes Tony Banks , mp, and Michael Winner , film producer. From Bicester, Oxfordshire. Chairman
James Naughtie
Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
with Marcel Berlins
Producer GARETH BUTLER
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
The New York water shortage
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
The conditions that led to the 1989 New York City water shortage and the power of Congress to perform "corrective action" to bypass judgements made in by courts.
(Details as Monday 8.42am)
by Alistair Cooke
Design on Docklands
A revamped warehouse space in London's
Docklands opens on Thursday as the Design Museum, a permanent showcase for everyday manufactured products. It is the brainchild of Sir Terence Conran and aims to make us rethink our surroundings. Waldemar Januszczak reports on the new enterprise at Butlers Wharf.
Producer ANTHONY DENSELOW Stereo
The Heat of the Day (15)
with Richard Kershaw
with Bill Wallis ,
David Tate , Sally Grace and Jon Glover
Written by BARRY ATKINS MARK BRISENDEN ,
SIMON BULUVANT , MIKE COLEMAN.
MICHAEL DINES , MAX HANDLEY ROBERT LINFORD.
BILL MATTHEWS. GED PARSONS . OLEH STEPANIUK , PETER HICKEY and others.
Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo