Presenters
Chris Lowe and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev
Richard Harries
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
Chris Dunkley of The
Financial Times airs your letters and comments on BBC programmes and policy.
Producer Catherine Mahoney
BBC correspondents at home and abroad report on one of the main
British or foreign topics in this week's news. Producers Howard Rogers and Carole Lacey
The Sisters
Read by Judy Bennett. Written by Carol Lake . Producer Anne-Marie Cole (R)
Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above (Luther's Hymn); Luke 13, vv
10-17; Heaven Shall Not Wait (J Bell/G Maule); Lord, Thy Church on Earth Is Seeking
(Abbot's Leigh), stereo
The return of the programme that answers your queries.
Dilly Barlow gazes skywards to find out if the length and weight of a cloud can be gauged but comes back down to earth in search of the origins of bebop, boogie-woogie and swing music.
Producer Viv Black
* WRITE to: Enquire Within, BBC Broadcasting House, London
WIA IAA, or phone [number removed]
Presenter John Waite
Six programmes in which three Somerset families talk to Jenni Mills.
4: The Daily Grind
George Jennings is a milkman, and his wife Jean a school dinner-lady; the Moreys run a craftsman-built kitchen company together; and Jeremy Taylor plans to make a million next year out of acid-house parties. Producer Jenny Stuart (R)
Presenter John Sergeant
Mrs Pepperpot at the Bazaar. Stereo (R)
with Anne Brown.
Serial: Love Among the Single Classes (10)
The first in a three-part dramatisation of Joyce Carey 's novel, with Freddie Jones as the ageing painter, Gulley Jimson.
Prisoner 846221 Gulley Jimson is released from a spell in chokey. All he wants is paint, brushes, a wall to paint on, and a regular amount of liquid refreshment to lubricate his genius. But fate conspires against him...
Stereo (A R4/World Service co-production)
Humphrey Carpenter looks at the members and activities of six literary societies.
3: The Arthur Conan
Doyle Society
Producer Nick Utechin
Stereo
with Frances Coverdale and Robert Williams
and Financial Report
Peter Hobday discovers what's new and what's happening in the world of transport.
Producer Jill Thomas
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television over the past seven days.
Producer Fiona Couper. Stereo
Sam Galbraith
Sir Nicholas Henderson
Lord Rees-Mogg and Gillian Shephard , MP tackle the issues raised in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire.
Chair Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Anna Carragher
with Marcel Berlins Producer Gareth Butler
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Independence Day 1990
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
A French insight in to Independence Day, the British stereotype of American pastimes, and a travel guide for tourists visiting New York State, as discussed by Alistair Cooke.
A Small Country Festival
Every summer for the last 30 years the town of Ludlow on the Welsh borders has put on its Festival. There's professional Shakespeare in the Castle Grounds ... amateur Shakespeare in the pub yard ... but it's always the gardening lecture that sells out first.
Paul Allen visits Ludlow to discover what makes a small town tick during Festival Fortnight. Producer Chris Eldon Lee
by Alistair Cooke
with Robin Lustig. Stereo
Tales of an Old Horse
Trader (3)
Five programmes.
In the small village of Little Blighty,
Mrs Roberts has been head of the Parish Council for
11 years. A toll tax has just been introduced and ... hang on, doesn't this sound a bit familiar?
With Jo Kendall
Michael Troughton John Baddeley
Bernadine Corrigan and Daniel Strauss. Producer Lissa Evans
with Vincent Duggleby