with the Rev
Richard Thornburgh.
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Elaine Storkey.
by Peter Mayle. 3: August
Stereo
Presented by Libby Purves.
Producer Bridget Osbome
A postbag edition.
Chairman Clay Jones.
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Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, PO Box 27, Manchester M60 1SJ
Mrs Pulaska by Christopher Burns. 'For people such as us she was an emissary from another world. She was angular with bony features and long black hair like a witch's ...'
Read by David Horovitch. Producer Duncan Mmshull
Jesu, Our Hope, Our Heart's Desire (Metzler's Redhead, BBC HB 126); Romans 8, w 18-26; Sing, My Soul, His Wondrous Love (Rorem); I'll Praise my Maker (Monmouth, BP 36).
Director of Music Barry Rose. Stereo
Information technology in cars - is Big Brother watching you? Plus a sneak preview of the RCA's industrial design show; and mobile phones - are they just for poseurs? Carol Vorderman loosens the nuts and bolts of today's technology.
Producer Constance St Louis
with John Howard.
The quiz game that delves into the origins of well-known phrases and expressions.
With Leslie Thomas ,
Frances Edmonds , Pam Ayres and Chris Stuart. Chris Serle in the chair.
Producer Paul Z Jackson. Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 2)
with James Naughtie.
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Can high-tech treatment help childless couples, and what's the true cost? Cheryl Armitage looks into the test tube.
Story: A Glimpse of Sion's Glory by Isabel Colegate.
Alison, an ambassador's wife, has known Raymond since she was a young woman. Now he has written her a long confessional letter. The first of three episodes read by Rowena Cooper. Music: Kalliwoda's Morceau de Salon
Abridged by Jack Singleton
Editor Sally Feldman
Mike Harris 's four-part drama of race and power, set in the sweatshops, factories and immigration offices of Manchester and Dacca between 1917 and 1981.
David Goldberg, Jack's brother, is close to retirement. He's spent a lifetime fighting for the rights of Asian workers. Now an all-out final strike looms ...
(Stereo)
with Michael Rosen.
Noel Streatfeild 's Ballet
Shoes has launched a million childhood dreams
- as well as a new literary genre. Kathleen Griffin gets on her points with the help of Jean Ure and Jean Estoril , creator of the Drina Ballerina books.
Producer Jill Burridge
As society becomes progressively non-religious, Chris Dunkley examines the secular alternative to divine rites, in four programmes. 3: The Naming
'I've gone to the lengths of looking up the standard baptism service - how can a six-month-old child renounce the Devil?'
Producer Fiona Couper. Stereo
Nigel Andrews reviews the American box-office success The Silence of the Lambs, starring Anthony Hopkins ; and discusses the implications of a new wave of violence on screen and in books.
Producer Adrian Washbourne Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes.
and Financial Report
Stereo
Cameron is desperate to get hold of Nelson.
John Waite investigates. Editor Graham Ellis
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Six concert performers talk to June Knox-Mawer. 2: Salvatore Accardo , Italian violinist, conductor, founder of the Naples Chamber Music
Festival and enthusiastic supporter of Juventus football team, talks about his career, and introduces his recordings of a Rossini String Sonata and Paganini's Violin
Concerto No 2 in B minor
(La Campanella).
Producer Derek Drescher. Stereo
Stereo
with Martin Webber.
Stereo
with Alexander MacLeod.
Stereo
Young Emma by W H Davies.
3: To Fresh Fields
A collection of contrasting memories from the women who used the steam washing houses of Glasgow in the 30s, 40s and 50s. Talk of the hard times, the sad times and the glad times is punctuated by evocative songs from the Wildcat Theatre's production of The Steamie.
Producer Pam Wardell
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
3: Arthur C Clarke and Katharine Hepburn
by Anne Tyler. Part 3.
