with Fr Donal McKeown.
with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Richard Bewes.
and How to Be Topp by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle. Part 3.
The programme driven by punter power takes to the river and sea to plumb the depths of a number of maritime stories with the help of Susan Marling and the Punters team.
0 WRITE to: Punters.
BBC Radio 4, Bristol 13S8 2LR 0 PHONE: [number removed]86
The Finger of God
The first in a series of four talks by the BBC's Foreign Affairs Editor, John Simpson , in which he looks back at the extraordinary events of 1989 and 1990, a period which saw the fall of communist regimes across eastern Europe. In the first programme, he looks at the breaching of the Berlin Wall and the role of Mr Gorbachev as the common denominator of change.
Producer Geoff Spink
Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm discover the origins of the modern cow and the introduction of longhorn cattle and bison into Britain.
Producer John Ruthven
Reflecting on the concerns of the day. Stereo
A series of showbusiness reminiscences, in seven programmes. 3: Dick Turpin
The story of a scheme to make a fortune from flops, which puts The Producers to shame.
Performed and written by Peter Jones.
Producer Pete Atkin.
Joanna Buchan visits five Scots acknowledged as remarkable achievers in their chosen professions.
1: Bill McCue , Opera Singer 'I could pretend that what I do is high art - what I do is hard work.'
Producer Cathy Orysdale. Stereo
After an absence of 34 years, Monica Porter returns to Hungary with her father.
with Debbie Thrower.
with Nigel Rees.
Another plethora of polysyllabic platitudes.
Identifying the quotes are Simon Brett ,
Arnold Brown , Sue MacGregor and Mark Steyn. Readings by Ronald Fletcher.
Producer Armando lannucci Stereo
with Nick Clarke.
with Jenni Murray.
Can only a perfect body look beautiful in dance?
Frances Byrnes meets the disabled dancers who may never perform Swan Lake but still see their art as valid. Serial: Seeing Red (7)
In all major disasters, it is the after-effects on those who were involved which linger. However, when a policeman, Benfield, calls on Katrina to probe into the cause of the disaster, it almost seems as though, through him, she will find a way to come to terms with it.
Written by Elizabeth Mickery.
Guitar Les Beavers.
Director Kay Patrick. Stereo
Edward Blishen invites Libby Purves and Nigel Forde to talk about four paperbacks they consider to be A Good Read.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo
Robert Dawson-Scott reviews the new films
Paris Trout and Naked
Tango; talks to crime writer Sarah Paretsky ; and reads the words of painter Paul Cezanne. Producer Nicki Paxman
with Frank Partridge and Wendy Austin.
and Financial Report
Evelyn Waugh 's novel adapted in three parts. 3: Hollywood, 1947.
Aimee Thanatogenous is horrified to discover that her fiance, Dennis Barlow , works in a pets' cemetery. But can she find true happiness with her other suitor, senior mortician Mr Joyboy ?
Dramatised by Bill Matthews
Producer Ussa Evans. Stereo
John's dressed up for his date.
In the second of four programmes, spanning the year, Phil Smith gets out and about to record the impact of summer on everyday life.
Producer Gillian Hush
'England is the country of my birth, but I cannot say I am an Englishman.'
'I'm neither Indian nor British, I'm a lost soul.'
'White people see black as the colour of sin, the colour of dirt, the colour of the devil.'
Black people in Britain voice the pain and struggle of trying to find identity and acceptance in an unwelcoming society. Producers Tim Pemberton and Rebecca De Saintonge
with Ted Harrison.
Producer Marlene Pease
with Roger White. Stereo
with Alexander MacLeod.
Stereo
Growing up with Grandma
4: Grandma at the Rugby
A six-part crime series set in 1830, a year after the Metropolitan Police Act created the 'Peelers'.
Written by Patrick Carroll. 5: The blackmail plot is rumbled, but Quin and Maria seem as far apart as ever.
Singer Martin Carthy.
Director Janet Whitaker. Stereo
by James Joyce. Part 12. With Stephen Rea ,
Norman Rodway , Maggie Whiting , Miriam Kelly , Hilary Reynolds , Chris Dunne , Sean Barratt , David Bannerman ,
Terence Edmund , Ronald Herdman , Brett Usher , James Greene ,
John Rogan , Gerard O'Hare and Joanna Myers.