with the Rev
Canon Tony Hart. Stereo
with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Fr John McDade.
by John Betjeman. Part 7.
Members of the public do the reporting with the help of Susan Marling and the Punters team. Stereo (Repeated on Sunday at 8.00pm; 0 WRITE to: Punters.
BBC Radio 4, Bristol BS8 2LR 0 PHONE: [number removed]86
The last of six talks by John P Harris about living in a village in the south of France. Grumbles
Producer Merilyn Harris
Most of the ponies reported to be living in dire conditions on Dartmoor are not true Dartmoor ponies, but a collection of crossbreeds turned out in the 50s and 60s to provide a cheap cash crop for the European meat industry. Jessica Holm and Michael Scott go in search of the real Dartmoor pony - bred for work and to withstand the harsh weather on this bleak moor.
Producer John Holmes
Reflecting on the concerns of the day. Stereo
A series of showbusiness reminiscences, in seven programmes.
2: The TV Spectacular - a Contradiction in Terms A story that will confirm the truth of a lot of what you'd always suspected, and the place in show business history of the liver sausage sandwich. Performed and written by Peter Jones.
Producer Pete Atkin
Sue MacGregor talks to the racehorse trainer
Jenny Pitman.
Producer Gillian Hush
Daft as a Brush
Sally Vincent bristles at her brush-making ancestors.
with John Howard.
Nigel Rees chairs the quotation game. With
Dillie Keane , Bel Mooney , John Julius Norwich and John Peel. Readings by Ronald Fletcher.
Producer Armando lannucci Stereo
with Nick Clarke.
It's been called 'a watery paradise', 'ravishing but venal' - today's programme celebrates the magic and mystery of Venice.
Serial: Seeing Red (2)
Fascinated by Judy Garland and her legend, Charlie learns that his waiter father met the star on her visit to Glasgow in 1951.. John Binnie 's play conjures up a touching and humorous dream world.
Director Stewart Conn. Stereo
Edward Blishen invites
Jackie Kay and Joan Smith to talk about four paperbacks they consider to be A Good Read.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo
Paul Allen is at the first night of When She
Danced, starring Vanessa Redgrave ; the poet
Douglas Dunn collects writings about Scotland; and Amanda Brisbane sculpts animals out of glass. Producer Adrian Washbourne Stereo
with Wendy Austin and Hugh Sykes.
and Financial Report
Evelyn Waugh 's novel adapted in three parts. 2: Hollywood, 1947.
Two men are in love with Aimee Thanatogenous. One is the poet
Dennis Barlow. The other is senior mortician Mr Joyboy ...
Dramatised by Bill Matthews
Producer Ussa Evans. Stereo
Sid is frantic with worry.
After 30 years working in Kuwait, Dr Josephine Candy fled the country six weeks after the Iraqi invasion of August 1990, leaving behind almost all her possessions - and her parrot Charlie. In June, with her son John Dryden , she made an emotional return to Kuwait to start work again in the hospital where she had hidden. She met old friends who had survived the occupation, but what had become of Charlie?
Producer John Watkins. Stereo
Blurry Works at Hurdles Ford
The River Liffey cuts its way through a city defined by its contradictions,
Dublin. Where once there was a port, now there is a financial centre which deals in electronic money. And the young find their voices in the city's best known export, Dublin Rock. Writer
Fintan O'Toole unravels the conflicts to reveal his city as it attempts to hurdle the ford between its past and its future. Producer Mary Price
with Kati Whitaker.
Producer Marlene Pease
Stereo
with Roger White. Stereo
with Robin Lustig. Stereo
Talking It Over by Julian Barnes. Part 9.
A sixpart crime series set in 1830, a year after the Metropolitan Police Act created the 'Peelers'.
Written by Patrick Carroll. 4: PC Quin is in prison for debt and Maria is imprisoned by her father.
Singer Martin Carthy.
Director Janet Whitaker. Stereo
by James Joyce. Part 8.
Read by Norman Rodway and James Greene.
