Stereo
with John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
Nick Baker looks behind the pages of four periodicals.
3: General Practitioner A news item has just reached the newsroom of this doctors' weekly. A tiny sewing machine has been developed which, when swallowed, can stitch up holes in the patient's stomach.... Producer NIGEL ACHESON
Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm discover a thriving population of rare African wild dogs. Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Stereo
For his final conversation in the Hebridean Isles
Derek Cooper talks to the Raasayborn Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
Mathematician
David Bodanist describes how he took revenge on his past.
Presenter John Howard
Stereo (Details as Tues 6.30pm)
Presenter James Naughtie
No Roses for Harry by GENE ZION. Stereo
Jenni Murray meets
June Layson , recently appointed as Britain's first university Professor of Dance.
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by ANTHONY WHEELER. With and Together Olive and Tony can meet any challenge. Even to life itself.
Directed by PENNY GOLD Stereo
Nigel Forde steps gingerly into the world of crime and horror thrillers. Why is James Herbert haunted? Who lies in the murder bookshop?
Perhaps H. R. F. Keating's Inspector Ghote can help to unravel the mystery. Producer SALLY MARMION
Stereo (Details as Wed 9.15pm)
with Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
and Financial Report
Stereo (Details as Sat 11. 30pm)
'I couldn't think of him as my son ... He was a murderer.'
How do parents cope when their child is convicted of a serious offence? How do they keep going? How does society treat them? Can they still love the offender? 'It doesn't end your life, it alters your life; you've got to carry on, for their sake.'
Producer FIONA COUPER. Stereo
The Writing on the Wall While its citizens are voting with their feet,
East Germany is facing pressure for political reform. Will changes in the East transform the post-war European order? John Eidinow chairs a discussion on the German question.
Producer JULIAN BROWN Editor CAROLINE ANSTEY
Presenter Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
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Vaclav Havel is part of Globe Theatre 89 on R4; film animators descend on Bristol; and a biography of the man who tracked down Dr Livingstone, Sir Henry Stanley , I presume. Presenter Mark Steyn. Producer MIKE BEDWARD
Stereo
with Richard Kershaw Stereo
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (9). Stereo
by Daphne du Maurier, dramatised in six parts by Michelina Wandor.
With Lorna Heilbron as Dona St Colomb
As the local Cornish gentry decide how to deal with the French pirate, Jean plans his next venture with the aid of a new accomplice.
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