Stereo

with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys Details as Easter Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Leith Dunn
8.35
Yesterday in Parliament

Listeners report on a variety of issues with the help of Susan Marling. Editor Jenny Walmsley BBC Bristol
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BBC Radio 4, Bristol BS8 2LR

'One was seldom able to do her a good turn without some thoughts of strangulation.'
In the first of four talks, Alan Bennett recalls how an unusual visitor took up residence in his garden and turned it into a long-stay car park. BBC North

The pressures of life for the creatures that live in the depths of the ocean; and a haven for herons that have found an ideal home. With Fergus Keeling and Lionel Kelleway. Producer John Ruthven BBC Bristol

Stereo

Stereo (Omnibus edition next Saturday at 6.25pm)

Six programmes with Sue MacGregor.
2: Bert Massie , the director of RADAR, the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation.
Producer Gillian Hush BBC North

Thirty years ago Alma Rosser was snowbound in a remote cottage with a baby dying of starvation....

Presenter John Waite

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers

with James Naughtie

Crackers and the Grand Hat. Stereo

with Jenni Murray.
Woman's Hour Book of Short Stories: 3: The Mask of the Bear (2)

by Sheelagh Kanelli dramatised by Maria Vigar.
With Alice Arnold
Joanna Foster.
A Greek village, on a hot afternoon, when the sea is at its most alluring - and the girls are almost free ... almost free.
Director Maria Vigar. Stereo

Frank Muir talks about The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose;
Frederick Forsyth and other thriller writers; discuss the problems of researching and plotting thrillers; and Nigel Forde talks to Tanzanian writer
Abdulrazak Gumah about his latest novel, Dottie.
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft
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Stereo

Presenters
Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams

and Financial Report

Six scandals or causes célèbres which made the headlines in their day. 2: Crichel Down:
Grounds for Resignation? The Crichel Down affair led to the resignation of Sir Thomas Dugdale , the Minister of Agriculture, in 1954. But did he have to take responsibility for the actions of his civil servants? Would a minister in his position do the same today?
Written and presented by David Wheeler. Readers John Bull and James Greene. Producer Mark Savage Stereo

Forty years ago Edward Heath became an MP; 20 years ago he was elected Prime Minister; and it's 15 years since he lost the Tory leadership to Mrs Thatcher.
John Cole , Political Editor of the BBC, re-examines Heath's role in the battle for the true soul of British Conservatism; and assesses his impact on the changing shape of the nation.
Contributors include
Lord Jenkins of Hillhead; the Rt Hon Norman Tebbit , MP; the Rt Hon
Denis Healey , MP; the Rt Hon
John Biffen , MP; Lord Prior; Henry Kissinger ; Willy Brandt ; and the Rt Hon Douglas Hurd , MP. Producers Chris Harmer and Howard Rogers

Presenter Kati Whitaker Producer Marlene Pease
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Paul Vaughan talks to the people who put classics on radio, and Brian Morgan finds where opera and science meet.
Producer Belinda Sample Stereo (Tomorrow 4.30pm)

with Roger White Editor Stephen Chilcot

with Richard Kershaw Stereo

In the Red Kitchen (8) by Michele Roberts

Dramatised in four parts by Nick McCarty.
With Mick Ford.

Forty years after he first appeared in the comic Eagle, Dan Dare hits the airwaves and embarks on a mission to Venus to save the world.
(Stereo)
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