with Marjorie Lofthouse. Producer Jane Ward. Sfereo
with Jack Hywel-Davies including
Bells on Sunday from the Parish Church of Our Lady of St Nicholas, Liverpool. Stereo
with Christopher Morgan and Andrew Green. Editor David Coomes including at
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by Alistair Cooke.
for Pentecost, from
St John the Baptist Church, Woking. Led by the Rev James Song. Preacher: the Rev Gavin Reid.
Readings: Joel 2, w 28-32; Acts 2, w 1-12. Hymns:
We Have Heard the Joyful Sound; Father We Love You; 0 Breath of Life; 0 Thou Who Camest from
Above; Go Forth and Tell. Organist: Roger Firman.
Omnibus edition.
Director Nialt Fraser
with Martin Wainwright. Producer Jane Beresford
with Margaret Howard. Stereo
with Nick Clarke. Editor Roger Mosey
This week the team visits Warwickshire where members of the Kenilworth Flower Club put their queries to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Sue Phillips.
Chairman Clay Jones. Producer Amanda Mares
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Strange Meeting An adaptation of the novel by Susan Hill. Hilliard, a young subaltern, returns to the Western Front after sick leave. Here he meets the inexperienced Barton, whose charm and common sense begin to affect
Hilliard's own reserve and cynicism. Slowly the two change roles.
Adapted by Guy Vaesen
Director Richard Wortley. Stereo (First broadcast in 1974)
Merchants of the Apocalypse
The Gulf War highlighted the dangers of international arms sales to dubious regimes. Peter Hennessy examines the case for new controls on the trade in lethal weaponry by western arms producers.
NEW The first of a six-part series in which Rosemary Leach and Michael Fitzgerald read poetry and prose about the weather.
1: Snow
Producer Julia Gillett
Margaret Howard 's love of horses is much in evidence when she visits
Newbury in Berkshire.
Producer Anthony Smith. Stereo
From Buddhist tracts to the Beatles - poets, politicians and priests have had their say about women. Tony Slattery and Haydn Gwynne present a four-part anthology of abuse.
3: Women at Work
'They have a right to work whenever they want to - as long as they have dinner ready when you get home.' Oohn Wayne ) Producer Sara Conkey. Stereo
Chris Dunkley of The Financial Times airs your letters and comments on BBC programmes and policy.
A compilation of the day-to-day triumphs and tragedies of a small rural community as they unfolded last summer. Presented by Nigel Farrell.
Producer Chris Paling
(A new series of The Village begins on Friday at 9.45am)
NEW The return of the series that goes out into the villages, towns and cities of Britain to report on key issues from the perspectives of the men and women most affected by them. Presented by Stephen Beard.
Producer Andrew Denwood
Nigel Forde talks to Jilly Cooper about the glamorous and competitive world of Polo recreated in her new novel, and, with the help of Bryan Connon 's biography, rediscovers
'the original bright young thing', Beverley Nichols.
As Britain faces new record levels of crime, confidence in the police is undermined by notorious miscarriages of justice, and more and more influential voices call for change. Today, Lord Scarman chairs the first of a five-part inquiry into the future of the police service.
What sort of service do we want? How can the police be made more accountable? Should there be a national police force? Lord Scarman hears evidence from local politicians, academics, lawyers and the public. Presented by Gerry Northam.
Reporter Julia Sharp.
Michael Rosen meets the poet John Agard.
Only a handful of Mauritius echo parakeets survive. A rescue has been launched to bring the species back from the brink of extinction.
Presented by Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm.
A Leicestershire childhood, poaching with the boys, the annual pig-killing.... and later writing poems on pieces of building-slate, winning the 1951 Commonwealth poetry prize -
Jeff Fletcher (1907-86) led an extraordinary life.
His vivid reminiscences are followed by five of Mr Fletcher 's Poems read by Leonard Fenton and John Baddeley.
Producer Piers Plowright. Stereo
with Patrick Bartlett.
Producer Charles Sigler
Nearer to God in the Garden
The third in a series of four programmes of seasonal words and music which reflect spiritual responses to being in a garden.
Editor Noel Vincent. Stereo