Stereo
with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor
with Libby Purves
Producer Bridget Osborne
Today: Hexham Abbey.
10.30 Pilgrim by Alex Ferguson.
Read by Val McLane. Producer Gillian Hush
10.45 The service with the Abbey choir. God Be in My Head; Rejoice in the Lord; Psalm 15; Forth in Thy Name.
This week
Lucie Skeaping samples the music of Edinburgh's Bengali community. Producer Daniel Snowman
with John Howard
Dylan Winter and Molly Plod on through a monsoon in Monmouth towards the Severn
Bridge, on the concluding leg of their journey down the English-Welsh border. Producer Brian King. Stereo
Repeated on Friday at 6.30pm)
With James Naughtie
Jenni Murray meets novelist Angela Carter.
Serial: Of Such Small Differences (2)
Solly wants a job done quickly, but can he trust Denning and Smidgeley? A comedy thriller by W F Jones.
Director Alison Hindell. Stereo
Fantasy and magic are vital traditions in children's literature. Jenni Mills meets Ursula Le Guin ,
Diana Wynne Jones and Jenny Nimmo.
Producer Jill Burridge
Tony Wilkinson reports on the Penrith Press. It's not all floods, garbage tips and drug busts.
There are violin lessons at the Joan Sutherland Arts Centre and male beauty contests at the Panther's Club.
Producer Julian Hale. Stereo
Ian Christie picks the week's new films, including The Handmaid's Tale; actor Simon Callow talks about his not-so-happy experiences in front of the camera; and Clare Tomalin uncovers the invisible woman in Charles Dickens 's life. Producer Mike Greenwood Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes
and Financial Report
Stereo
John Waite investigates. Producer Graham Ellis
Hugh Sykes reports from Northumberland and Cornwall in his search for Britain's most exciting new companies. 3: Seabait are angling for the L 10,000 award with a ragworm farm in a power station. Copa South West hope to clean up the E5,000 prize by saving beaches from pollution. Producer Marc Jobst
Robert Dawson Scott goes behind the scenes of a giant firework display and talks to pyrotechnic buffs about the magic, and dangers, of playing with fire.
Producer Steve Greenwood
Stereo
with Roger White. Stereo
with Alexander MacLeod Stereo
Midnight Tales
3: The Dream in the Dead House
Stereo
Simon Brett takes a look at the end of October through other diarists' eyes, and adds his entry for Hallowe'en 1990. Producers Kate Whitehead and Kate McAII. Stereo
