Stereo
with Sue MacGregor and Brian Redhead
9.00am News
The final programme in which Nick Baker looks behind the pages of a periodical.
4: Police Review
In a Thames police launch on a rainy Thursday, a junior reporter is collecting 1,500 words for her feature on the river police. Meanwhile in the peace of his country home, an ex-policeman puts the finishing touches to his weekly column. Producer NIGEL ACHESON Stereo
New and endangered species of natural history books, and the sounds of young crocodiles.
Presenters Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm.
Producer JOHN RUTHVEN BBC Bristol
Stereo
In the first of seven programmes, Sue
MacGregor talks to
Phyllis Pearsall , artist and writer, head of the Geographers' A to Z map company she founded 53 years ago.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Rebecca Ridgway recalls a most unusual childhood at her father's Adventure School in remote north-west Scotland.
Presenter John Howard
Stereo (Details as Tues 6.30pm)
Presenter James Naughtie
Dirty Dishes. Stereo
Presenter Jenni Murray
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by CHRIS THOMPSON. Ann returns from a marital disaster in America to find nothing's changed at home in nearly ten years. Her father and the wallpaper are both the same. But everything else is slightly different.
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester. Stereo
Nigel Forde visits the novelist Rumer Godden at home in Scotland to explore her life and her writing.
Producer SIMON ELMES
Stereo (Details as Wed 9. 15pm)
with Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
and Financial Report
Stereo (Details as Sat 11.30pm)
The office of Lord Mayor of London celebrates its 800th anniversary this year, and to mark the occasion Hugh Sykes discovers what it takes to be elected to this influential position. He meets the present incumbent, Sir
Christopher Collett , and finds out what he does and where he goes during this busy year.
Producer CAROLINE ELLIOT
Goodbye Sovereign Powers?
Mrs Thatcher thinks
Jacques Delors is stealing British sovereignty.
But, in the first of two programmes,
David Walker asks how relevant is the idea of the autonomous nation state in an era of growing economic interdependence.
Producer CAROLINE ANSTEY
Presenter Kati Whitaker Producer MARLENE PEASE
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Playwright and actor Steven Berkoff on stage; Monteverdi's Ulysses returns; and Dance Umbrella dances on. Presenter Mark Steyn.
(Stereo)
with Robin Lustig. Stereo
The Camomile Lawn (4)
by DAPHNE DU MAURIER dramatised in six parts by MICHELENE WANDOR . With and 3: Cabin Boy and Lover
With Dona disguised as a cabin boy, Jean leads his pirate crew in a daring raid in which everything depends upon their ability to outwit their victims.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON Stereo
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