from Alnmouth Friary, Northumberland.
Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys
Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev Philip Crowe
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

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Producer Nick Utechin
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Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory and the operating theatre to the dentist's chair and the GP's surgery. Producer Peter Croasdale at 7.45pm)

Please Do Not Touch by Carol Barker. Read by Victoria Finney.
'It felt strange to be reading somebody else's secrets - sad, somehow, as if I wanted to cry. It made me wonder how I'd feel if someone read mine.'
Producer Gillian Hush

Jesus, Where'er Thy
People Meet (Wareham, BBC HB 263); Acts 2, v 4 to 3, v 8; There's a Spirit in the Air (Lauds); Filled with the Spirit's Power (Farley Castle).
Director of Music
James Whitbourn. Stereo

Written by Greg Snow
(Stereo)

Reflections of life and politics abroad. Producer Geoff Spinks

Six programmes in which Patrick Hannan tries to leap the gap between what people say and what they mean.
4: Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Producer Hilary Jones

Presented by Debbie Thrower

This week the quotation game comes from the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol.
With guests Celia Haddon , P J Kavanagh , Bryan Magee and Derek Robinson.
In the chair: Nigel Rees. Reader Ronald Fletcher.
Producer Armando lannucci Stereo

Presented by James Naughtie

Jenni Murray meets Alison Britton , OBE, one of this country's leading ceramicists. Serial: A Country of Strangers (7)

with the violinist
Gyorgy Pauk , born in Hungary but a distinguished part of Britain's musical life for the last 30 years. Producer Michael Emery

The Hole Truth
The Beatles may have known how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall , but they can't have known holes could be so exciting. Neil Walker and David Clayton report. Producer Nick Clarke

Paul Vaughan discusses the complete stories of Irish writer
Flannery O'Connor ; the latest book by Milan Kundera ; and previews the Prokofiev Season on London's
South Bank.
Producer Julian May . Stereo

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge

and Financial Report

John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden. In the chair: Steve Race. Producer Richard Edis. Stereo (R,

The last of three programmes about the end of the Soviet Union as we know it.
We've Got You over a Barrel
In Siberia, where the temperature falls to 60 below and the permafrost cloaks vast energy reserves, millions of tonnes of oil and gas are wasted because of shoddy technology and antiquated working methods. Even so, the oilfields of Russia earn half the Soviet
Union's hard currency. Gordon Clough reports from western Siberia on how the oil men could hold the Kremlin to ransom.
Producer Anne Koch

The third of six talks by Charles Arnold-Baker , born Wolfgang Werner von Blumenthal , a Prussian aristocrat, in which he reflects on the English society of which he became such a 'compleat' example.
Producer Louise Purslow. Stereo

with Peter White
Producer Thena Heshel

Stereo

with Roger White Stereo

with Robin Lustig Stereo

Age of Iron by J M Coetzee. Part 7.

Six programmes in which Rosemary Hartill explores the relationship between God and the poets.
4: Victorian Times - the Debate: Robert Browning. Readers Garard Green, Christopher Goode and Jenny Howe.
Producer Amanda Hancox Stereo (R)