Farmers and Food A four-part monthly series in conjunction with BBC Good Food magazine. 1: George and Amanda Streatfeild and their
Dorset pigs and hams. Producer Tim Finney

with James Whitbourn.

with Chris Lowe and John Humphrys.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Fr Oliver McTernan.
Editor Philip Harding

Cliff Morgan with news, issues and conversations from the sporting world. Producer Andy Gillies

Susan Marling visits
Mauritius, the tropical island where the dodo breathed its last.
And David Prest slams a variety of vodkas aboard the Russian cruiser Karelia.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Ned Sherrin hosts an hour of live interjections from the likes of Carol Thatcher , Steven Wells , Michele Kirsch and The Men Who Know.
Stereo

James Naughtie presents the first of two programmes portraying more than half a century of parliamentary life, through the eyes of distinguished senior MPs who are retiring from the House of Commons at the next general election - among them Sir Geoffrey Howe , Denis Healey , Michael Foot ,
Cecil Parkinson and Sir Bernard Braine , the Father of the House.
Producer Sheila Cook

The series that looks behind the headlines and talks to the people of Europe. Presented by Max Easterman. Editor Jolyon Monson

with Louise Botting and Vincent Duggleby. Producer Frances Macdonald

Barry Took quizzes
Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren and their guests.
Producer Diane Messias. Stereo

This week's panel:
Virginia Bottomley, MP, Howard Davies , Jack Dromey and Rosalind Miles.
From Baildon, West Yorkshire. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]
Call Jonathan Dimbleby with views on the issues raised in Any Questions? Producers Anna Carragher and Lucy Cacanas
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Harry Rolt Is Missing Harry is about to make a scientific breakthrough which will be as revolutionary as the discovery of electricity.
But then he disappears ... Written by Michael Davies.
Director Alison Hindell. Stereo

Small Cog - Big Machine Europeans have a taste for the exotic - for tea and diamonds and silks. It is the desire to obtain luxuries that has transformed Europe from a self-sufficient continent to a small cog in the world machine. In the final programme of the series, Peter France looks at how trade began back in the Ice Age and how it has changed through time, and asks: what is the real price of luxury?
Producer Mary Colwell

Presented by Alun Lewis. Producer Julia Durbin

Sue MacGregor meets the composer and conductor Antony Hopkins , for once talking about his own life in music.

Stereo

and Sports Round-Up

Omnibus edition.
Director Tracey Neale. Stereo

with Robert Robinson.
Producer Michael Ember. Stereo

The Absentee
The second half of Maria Edgeworth 's saga of an Anglo-Irish family, published in 1812. Lord Colambre has travelled to Ireland for the first time to visit the Clonbrony estates but, unknown to him, Lady Dashfort is determined to trap him into marriage with her daughter Isabel.
With Fraser Kerr , Danielle Allan , Emma Gregory , Jenny Howe , Elizabeth Kelly , Auriol Smith ,
Ian Lindsay , Andrew Wincott and Terence Edmond.
Music played and arranged by Andrew Dodge.
Adapted by Nick McCarty
Producer Claire Grove. Stereo

Simon Broughton visits Georgia as it wrestles painfully for its independence from
Moscow. He encounters dancing, music and singing, ending his travels in a remote part of the country where Jason found the Golden Fleece.
Producer Richard Bannerman
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Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo

led by Canon Colin Semper. Stereo

Edward Mortimer chairs the discussion programme which challenges its participants to think before they speak.
Producer Gwyneth Williams

The Balkans
In the fifth of six programmes, Misha Glenny looks at this troubled region, wondering whether it will be the scene of Europe's first war since 1945.

with operatic husband and wife Norman Bailey and Kristine Ciesinski.
Stereo

Enter a brave new world created and presented by John Dowie , in the third of four programmes.
With Jim Sweeney , Steve Steen , Cathryn Harrison and The Ronnie Golden
Small Band.
Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer Stereo