with Brian Redhead and John Humphrys

A personal impression of life in Northern Ireland. Fergal Keane , until recently BBC Radio's correspondent in Belfast, talks to the citizens of the province and listens to their poetry and music. Producer Cathy Packe

News of two endangered species: the puffins of the Norwegian island of Rest and the rhinoceros. With Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm.
Producer John Harrison

Stereo

Written by Greg Snow Director Adrian Bean
Stereo (Omnibus edition on Saturday at 6.25pm)

This week Jenny Cuffe talks to Sharley McLean , who fled Nazi Germany as a child. A marriage and two children later, she faced the fact that she was a lesbian.
Producer Joy Hatwood. Stereo

Jerry Hicks affectionately remembers his grandmother's house in Harrogate - where 'all the world was a stage'. Producer Viv Beeby

with John Howard

Stereo

with James Naughtie

Presenter Jenni Murray talks to cookery writer
Annette Hope about the larders of the famous, from Chaucer to
Virginia Woolf. Serial: An Awfully
Big Adventure (7)

Nigel Forde discovers what made TV producer Bernard Cornwell become an author, and Hilary Spurling talks about her new biography of Raj Quartet author
Paul Scott. Also, Bernard Levin discloses his favourite reading. Producer Sally Marmion

Paul Allen meets the singers of Le Mystère des voix bulgares and Judy Meewezen reports on Street Beat, a documentary play about the police. Producer Nicki Paxman
Stereo

with Jenny Bond and Wendy Austin

and Financial Report

Stereo

Jenny Cuffe visits four towns that have become inseparable from the institutions at their heart.
3: Oundle - and its public school
Producer John Watkins. Stereo

Moneybags and Brains With British forces once again in the front line with the United States,
Peter Hennessy presents a two-part examination of the costs and benefits of the 'special relationship' with the USA since 1945.
1: A Dependency Culture? Were successive British policy-makers deluded by the transatlantic fixation? Producer Caroline Anstey

Presenter Kati Whitaker.
For disabled listeners. Producer Marlene Pease

Stereo

with Sam Jaffa. stereo

with Richard Kershaw Stereo

Jonathan Son of Jeremiah (4)

A six-part adaptation of Nicolas Freeling 's novel. 4: Boring Old Biarritz
Castang follows the trail south in search of a missing landlady and a million dollars.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell Director Matthew Walters. Stereo