Producer Tim Finney

with James Whitbourn.

with John Humphrys and Susannah Simons.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Dr Leslie Griffiths.
Editor Philip Harding

with Cliff Morgan. Producer Rob Nothman

with Ken Bruce.
Today: David Prest reports from the western fjords of Norway on the landscape which inspired Grieg. Producer Sara Jane Hall

with Ned Sherrin and the likes of Robert Elms, Victoria Mather , and The Men Who Know.
Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo

Robin Oakley talks to some of the parties and politicians who face little prospect of success in the forthcoming General
Election. How do those destined to be political also-rans explain the lure of the hustings? Producer Dennis Sewell

with Louise Botting. Producer Ann Gilmartin

Panel: Derek Nimmo , Wendy Richard ,
Paul Merton and Stephen Fry. Chairman Nicholas Parsons.
Producer Sarah Smith. Stereo

Panel: Robin Cook , MP; Jean Lambert ; Rt Hon Christopher Patten , MP; and Rt Hon
Shirley Williams. From Gloucester.
Chairman Nick Clarke. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]with Nick Clarke. producers Anna Carragher and Nick Ware
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Tarra Lengy
Billy Leng 's a 13-year-old optimist who is certain he can better himself in wartime Manchester.
Written by Frank White.
Director Tony Cliff. Stereo

Annette Kobak invites six travellers to reflect on a journey.
2: Tim Severin recreates the voyage of St Brendan from Ireland to the Promised Land. Producer Kate McAll

Part of Radio 4's Northern Lights festival. Alun Lewis drops in on scientists studying a surging glacier above the Arctic Circle.
Producer Julia Durbin

In the second of a four-part series, Dr Christopher Andrew asks, "What if, back in the 1920s, Ulster had been reduced to four counties instead of six?"
With Conor Cruise O'Brien and two other eminent
Irish historians.
Producer Ian Bell. Stereo

Six programmes in which Phil Smith examines the pressures of family life. 2: Group Portrait
Producer Gillian Hush

and Sports Round-Up

with David Tate , Sally Grace and Bill Wallis.
Stereo

Robert Robinson meets a group of ballroom dancers at a dance school in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Producer Michael Ember

Tupilaks and Faxes
Part of Radio 4's Northern Lights festival. Greenland is the world's largest island, but only about
50,000 people live there, many still hunters with dog sleds. Yet it is also a modern place, with home rule, CDs and faxes. So, is there a role for art - such as the traditional Inuit
"tupilak" sculpture - when mere survival is difficult, despite the comforts of modern technology?
Paul Allen visits Greenland, and hunts for art which uses ancient traditions to speak for an emergent nation - and to the rest of the world.
Producer Julian May. Stereo

A four-part adaptation of Alessandro Manzoni's novel.
As Renzo and Lucia flee for safety, a furious Don Rodrigo demands to know how they could possibly have escaped from his clutches.
Translated by Bruce Penman Dramatised by Louise Page
(Stereo)

Professor Akbar Ahmed talks to six people from the Indian subcontinent who have influence in Britain.
2: Mrs Shahwar Sadeque Stereo

Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo

led by Canon Eddie Neale. Stereo

Six programmes about the Circumpolar Arctic, as part of Radio 4's Northern Lights festival.
2: Cultures on Ice
Around the Arctic Rim are native communities who five in the modern world yet still value the traditional northern ways: hunting the seal, herding reindeer, speaking the language and performing the music of their ancestors. Presented by Daniel Snowman. Stereo (Seeafso Tuesday 3.00pm FM)

Six talks by Charles Arnold-Baker , born the Prussian aristocrat
Wolfgang Werner von Blumenthal.
2: Eels, Fairies and Royals Producer Louise Purslow

with cellists
Alexander Baillie and Timothy Hugh. Stereo

The third of four comedy shows comes from Bristol.
With Nick Hancock , Tony Hawks, Neil Mullarkey and Rebecca Front.
Producer Sarah Smith. Stereo