Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev
Tom Butler.
Five programmes in which
Peter Mayle continues his award-winning account of his first year grappling with life in Provence.
1: June
Inundated with builders and guests, he and his wife also find time for goat races, memorable meals and the highlight of the agricultural year - the grape harvest. Abridged by Meg Clarke Producer Sheila Fox
from the Pavilion
Theatre, Brighton, with Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Jack Tinker , Professor John Barrow and Paul Morley.
Producer Geoff Prout. Stereo
Trail of the Green Blazer by R K Narayan.
Read by Sam Dastor. Producer Duncan Minshull
Live from All Saint's
Church, Fawley,
Southampton, with the Keble Choir. Led by Alison Bogle. How Shall I Sing That Majesty
(Kingsfold); Isaiah 63, w 7-14 (NIV); Let All
Mortal Flesh Keep Silent (Holst); 0 for a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Lingham). Director of Music Gary Philbrick. Trumpeter:
Matthew Ogden.
Organist: Chris Fay. Stereo
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers Elizabeth Bell and Ronald Pickup and guest Philip Gross.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by Debbie Thrower. Editor Ken Vass
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Chairman
Robert Robinson.
First Round - The North. John Griffiths (freelance journalist); Chris Hill
(accountant); John Poulter (retired school teacher); lain Grant (staff development officer).
The programme includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey
with Jenni Murray. Take a flight in the programme's Victorian balloon with Queen
Victoria (Edwina Currie ), Mrs Beeton (Prue Leith), George Eliot (A S Byatt) and Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson (Wendy Savage). Producer Hazel Castell
Vincent Price stars in a horror story written by Victor Pemberton.
'It came at me from nowhere ... eyes glarin' out of the dark like emeralds ... This isn't one of God's creatures, sir. It's the work of the devil himself!' Director John Tydeman Stereo
Love in a Hot Climate India has produced some of the most sexually explicit art, the Kama
Sutra being a byword for Eastern eroticism. And yet modern India controls sexual relationships with vigorously imposed taboos, and the shortest screen kiss is all that is allowed by the censor. John Keay examines the paradox. Producer Mike Greenwood
Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.
and Financial Report
Stereo
Lucy seems very irritable.
Other People's Lives In Marilyn Morris 's comedy a woman makes awful discoveries about family and friends when she is laid up with a broken leg and cannot escape them or their secrets. Director Tony Cliff Stereo
Stereo
How predatory is French industry and is it just a tentacle of the French government?
Nigel Cassidy investigates. Editor Alan Griffiths. Stereo
with Richard Kershaw. Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
Young Emma by W H Davies. ( Looking for a Wife
'The year was 1919 and I had decided to change my way of life.' The first of five parts abridged and read by David Burke. i Producer Marilyn Imrie
Michael Bentine stars in the first of seven one-man shows, originally broadcast in 1984. Producer Jamie Rix. Stereo
Four programmes in which Claude
Jenks describes imaginary encounters with the famous in unlikely circumstances. 1: W H Auden in Skipton Cattle Market
Producer Alastair Wilson
by Anne Tyler. Evie Decker , a small-town American teenager, changes her life in a bizarre manner.
The first of five parts read by Barbara Barnes. Abridged and produced by David Hunter
