with Haddon Wilmer. Stereo

with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Dr Leslie Griffiths.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament.

Members of the public report on issues which have affected their lives.
With Susan Marling.
0 WRITE to: Punters. BBC Radio 4. Bristol BS8 2LR
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In the second of seven programmes giving foreigners a chance to express their views about Britain, the Kurdish journalist Hazhir Teimourian explores the limits of tolerance in British society. Producer Geoff Spink

Joshua. Read from the Authorised Version in four episodes by Leo McKern. 1: Crossing the Jordan. Abridged by Andrew Simpson Producer David Benedictus

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: Celia Johnson (9)

BBC correspondents from around the world report. Producer Geoff Spink

with Debbie Thrower.

Stereo

with James Naughtie.

(Broadcastyesterday 7.05pm)

At the turn of the century, Consuelo Vanderbilt was forced by her ambitious mother to marry the Duke of Marlborough and spent several years at Blenheim Palace trying to make a go of her marriage while pining for the American love of her life she left behind.
(Stereo)
Drama: page 4

Simon Rae joins readers Elinor Jones and Tony Robinson at the Cardiff Literature Festival. Producer Viv Beeby. Stereo ● REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Paul Allen is at the first night of the avant-garde
Canadian director Robert LePage 's Dragon Trilogy; and the Royal Academy opens its major exhibition of the Japanese master Hokusai.
Producer Hamish Mykura. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Wigtime by Alice Munro.
The first of two parts read by Margaret Robertson. "When her mother was dying, Anita came home to take care of her. 'I heard you were here,' this woman said. It was
Margot, whom Anita hadn't seen for 30 years." Abridged by Meg Clarke
Producer Pat McLoughlin (Part 2. tomorrow at 4.45pm)

with Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.

Stereo

Betty takes refuge at the Bull.

"The ordinary French kiss on both cheeks did not satisfy them, and it terminated on their lips!" So wrote
Richard Humphreys , Hampstead pharmacist, aged 74, who stuffed his Edwardian hiker's diaries with picture postcards to remind him of his innocent amours with the beautiful girls of rural France. Andrew Sachs returns to his own haunts in NW3 on the trail of this incurable romantic.
Adapted and produced by Gwyn Richards. Stereo

Perestroika in the Desert
The collapse of the Soviet bloc has left its former
Arab allies searching for a new strategy for survival in an American-led world.
John Keay considers how far this is driving states like Egypt and Syria to restructure their political and economic institutions.
Producer Zareer Masani

Six programmes in which Martin Wainwright digs into the northern soil and unearths some surprises. 3: TheBatley Volcano From Kinder Scout to Dronfield, fires are burning beneath the earth. Producer John Watkins

with Ted Harrison.
Producer Mariene Pease

Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo

Fluke by James Herbert. 2: Rumbo

Kathleen Turner stars as V.I. Warshawski in a six-part dramatisation of Sara Paretsky's novel.
Cousin Albert has called V.I. off the investigation into the forged securities at the Priory. But V.I. doesn't give up so easily.
(Stereo)