Oliver Walston visits the former East Germany to investigate how farming there is changing in post cold war times.
Producer Carol Trewin

with James Whitbourn.

with Peter Hobday and Jennie Bond.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.
Editor Philip Harding

with Bryon Butler. Producer Bob Shennan

with Ken Bruce.
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with Ned Sherrin , and the likes of Mark Steyn , Emma Freud and Craig Charles. Producer DymphnaFlynn. Stereo

Robin Oakley , Political Editor of The Times, reports on this week's Conservative Party
Conference in Blackpool. Producer Margaret Hill

BBC correspondents from around the world look at their host countries.
Producer Geoff Spink

with Louise Botting.
Producer Frances Macdonald

Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains
Alan Coren and Richard Ingrams and their guests in the last of the series.
Producer Diane Messias. Stereo

This week's panel:
John Banham ;
Tony Blair , MP; Rt Hon John MacGregor , MP; and Sir Russell Johnston.
From Ramsbottom, Lanes. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. (Broadcastyesterday) and at 2.00pm
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Settling with the Indians The first English settlement in Virginia is the scene for Mick Mangan 's powerful story of Ben Mellors , a man appalled by the colonial mentality around him. His friendship with the captive princess Pocahontas finally forces him to defect to the Indians, a move which has tragic consequences.
Director Dave Sheasby. Stereo

Peter Howarth tells the story of Thomas Allen , who hawked religious tracts and books in 19th-century Bacup. With
Malcolm Raeburn as Thomas Allen.
Producer Gillian Hush. Stereo

The world's most useless scientific research, the science of Sherlock Holmes and the chance to expose a few scientific myths, in the lighthearted panel game featuring
Bob Ralph , Howie Firth ,
Steve Hall and John Davies. Chairman Michael Scott.
Producer Louise Dalziel Stereo

with Alun Lewis.
Producer Julia Durbin

An off-the-rails look at the life of two metropolitan mammals - one of which is a mouse.
Commuter Fergus Keeling. Raps devised and performed by members of the Tie-Break Theatre Company.
Music Elizabeth Parker ,
BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Producer John Ruthven
Stereo

A lopsided view of birth, death and all the other messy bits in between, with Simon Hoggart and friends.
Producer Brian King

and Sports Round-Up

with Bill Wallis and Sally Grace.
Stereo

with Robert Robinson.
Producer Michael Ember. Stereo

At the Diner
Under the red neon light above the counter, Tim Marlow checks his new rockabilly haircut in the reflection of the chrome coffeemaker before sticking another dime in the Wurlitzer. Looking out at his gleaming T-bird he decides to investigate the increasing presence of the all-American diner in Britain.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Stereo

A ten-part dramatisation of Charles Dickens's novel.
David has met Steerforth in London and taken him to Yarmouth, where he introduced him to little Emily.
(Stereo)

John Miller talks to six eminent historians.
4: Robert Blake , former Provost of Queen's College, Oxford.

Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo

led by Fr Oliver McTeman. Stereo

The first rule of the junk mail business was "you have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince". Now that computers know so much about us, they hope to make every mailshot count. But if the EC bans
"Lifestyle Marketing", we could again be buried in junk mail.
Anna Grayson reports.
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with composer and pianist Richard Rodney Bennett. Stereo

For the first time on Radio 4, the funniest moments from
Radio 1 's Sony award-winning comedy series The Mary Whitehouse Experience.
Written by and featuring Hugh Dennis , Steve Punt , David Baddiel ,
Rob Newman and Jack Dee. Producer Armando lannucci Stereo