with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday

High Stakes (2)
Stereo

with Libby Purves
Producer Bridget Osborne

Denys Hawthorne reads Grunberg and the Actor by Elizabeth Troop.
Producer Richard Wortley. Stereo

An act of worship, including a reading from Galatians 3, v 26, to 4, v 7. With the BBC Singers. Stereo

Three thousand singers from around the world made a musical pilgrimage to Italy last month.
Joanne Watson joined the British contingent. Stereo

The third of four poetry and prose anthologies in which Jane Lapotaire and David Suchet explore the home and workplace. Producer Julia Gillett (R)

with John Howard

In the second of two
Programmes, Martin Wainwright explores professional naming. Producer Wendy Pilmer (R)

with Nick Clarke

Jenni Murray meets
Eunice Gayson , the star of 60s West End musicals, and Paddy Ashdown reveals his favourite bedside reading. Serial: Dora (2)

How does a family recover from the kidnapping of a child, and how does the child cope? Written by Mike Walker.
Director Jeremy Mortimer. Stereo

The second of five programmes in which poet Gillian Clarke talks to Carol Ann Duffy. Reader Sian Phillips. Producer Alec Reid

Paul Allen reports from a Glasgow shipyard shed, where actors and musicians celebrate the shipbuilding industry.
Producer Nicki Paxman. Stereo

with Frances Coverdale and Hugh Sykes

and Financial Report

The quotation game with this week's guests Jean Boht , Sheridan Morley , Peter Porter and Humphrey Carpenter. Presenter Nigel Rees. Producer Armando lannucci Stereo (R)

John Waite returns with a new series to investigate your complaints of injustice. Producer Graham Ellis
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This week: a Rottweiler in the playground.
Producers Sarah Rowlands and Brian King

The story of Felicia Hemans , the popular poet of the early 19th century, remembered now for perhaps the most parodied lines in English literature:
'The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled ...'
Written and presented by Malcolm Jones , with Jenny Howe as Mrs Hemans.
Readers Geoffrey Banks , Victoria Finney and Barbara Marten. Producer Gillian Hush

Presenter Peter Day Editor Stephen Chilcott

Natalie Wheen visits a new National Theatre play about composer Benjamin Britten , and spends two nights at the opera in Leeds and London.
Producer Adrian Washbourne Stereo

with Nigel Cassidy. Stereo

with Robin Lustig. Stereo

Summoned by Bells (part 5)

In the third of four programmes,
Timothy West reads the diaries of James Agate - theatre critic, broadcaster and bon viveur - chronicling his life in London during the 30s and 40s.
With David Bannerman , James Greene , Michael Kilgarriff , Fraser Kerr and David King.
Adapted by David Wheeler
Producer Rosemary Hart. Stereo

3: Victoria Hall , Hanley. Stereo