with Marjorie Lofthouse. Producer Jane Ward. Stereo

with Jack Hywel-Davies . Bells on Sunday from Butterywells Farm, near Aberdeen. Stereo

Robert Forster joins David Street for breakfast in the Cumbrian hills.
Producer Carol Trewm

with Alison Hilliard and Trevor Barnes.
Editor David Coomes including at

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from Sherborne Abbey, Dorset. Led by the Rev Stephen Lake. Preacher the Rev Canon Robert
Willis. Dear Lord and Father of Mankind; Firmly I Believe and Truly; 0 Jesus I Have Promised;
0 Thou Who Camest from
Above; Ubi Caritas. Director of Music
Julian Dams. Assistant
Organist John Padley. stereo

Omnibus edition.
Director Vanessa Whitburn

with Anne Spackman.
Producer Jane Beresford. Stereo

with Chris Serle.
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with Nick Clarke.
Deputy editor Anne Koch

Clay Jones chairs a postbag edition. With
Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward. Producer Diana Stenson
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Dan John Scotney 's story of Dan Leno , the great music hall star whose short life brought happiness to all except himself.
Clog dancing Lawrence Evans. Music Michael Kilgarriff.
Director Geny Jones. Stereo

Four talks in which travel historian Ian Ousby argues that the English tourist industry is not a modern creation.

The perspective from the centre of Cambridge, besieged by college-tripping coach parties. And the earlier visit of Mr George H Ball from Boston, who "did" Cambridge in 1897.

America's Crisis of Leadership
The second of a four-part series in which James Naughtie asks political leaders how the US can deliver at home the success it feels it has won abroad.

The last of four programmes in which Martin Wainwright joins entomologists on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
A well-loved nursery rhyme does its bit for international harmony.

BBC Political
Editor John Cole 's interest in the Scots poet Robert Burns may partly stem from the fact that his first ever freelance earnings were for reporting a Burns Night supper in Northern Ireland. But it's his love of the poetry which takes him to Dumfries, where Rabbie spent his final years. Producer Jill Marshall

Martin Frutin describes his life-long passion for all kinds of gadgetry.
Producer Michael Shaw

The chronicles of a small Hampshire community.
The fourth of six programmes with Nigel Farrell.

Nigel Rees concludes his series on modern manners by asking whether the British are too polite for their own good.
Producer Sallie Davies. Stereo

Six programmes about how the Gulf War - the first major conflict since the end of the Cold War - developed, and what it achieved.
Presented by BBC Defence Correspondent Mark Laity. Including previously unbroadcast material from the battle zones, and the latest perspectives from those who fought and directed the war on the allied side.
2: The Storm Gathers
President Bush quickly committed himself to reversing Iraq's shock invasion of Kuwait in August 1990. Why did Saddam Hussein fail to rock the delicate coalition the President built up in response?
Producer Peter Burdin

Nigel Forde meets the British writers of the wild western; novelist Thomas Keneally cringes at the memory of his first book; and the trials and triumphs of the much-maligned pun.

Four programmes of conversation and music.
3: The Russian violinist
Viktoria Mullova won both the Sibelius and the Tchaikovsky competitions, but she felt constricted by the authorities and in 1983 escaped to the West.
She talks about her career and introduces her recording of the Mendelssohn Violin
Concerto in D minor.
Producer Derek Drescher. Stereo

with Jessica Holm.

Part of Radio 4's Northern Lights festival. Queen Elizabeth I despatched Martin Frobisher "beyond the icie seas" to what is now the Canadian Arctic. Four centuries later, Malcolm Billings joins an archaeological expedition to Kodlunarn Island in Frobisher Bay in search of the remains of this ill-fated enterprise.
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with Tim Fenton.
Producer Charles Sigler

On the eve of his return to
South Africa after eight years in exile in Britain, Cedric Mason examines the experience of Christians who challenge both church and state, in four programmes. 2: Liberating God
Producer Bevertey McAinsh. Stereo