with the Rt Rev Peter Firth.
with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jonathan Fryer.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
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Desert Island Discs
Sue Lawley's castaway is writer J G Ballard. Show more
Chris Dunkley
NEW of the Financial Times returns to air your letters and comments on BBC programmes and policy. Producer Nick Utechin
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Daily Service
Six murder cases where forensic evidence helped trap the murderer. Narrated by Nick Ross. 5: Murder on the Farm. Steven Jameson has been poisoned by paraquat which his wife accidentally spilled in a stew. But his doctor believes that Steven has been murdered. Written by Rib Davis. With Ronald Herdman. John Church, John Webb, Ann Windsor, Peter Penry-Jones , Kate Binchy , Eric Allan , Brett Usher , Jonathan Adams and Melanie Hudson. Producer Fiona McLean. Stereo
The Book of Job Part 3.
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
The European Court has ruled that there should be no difference in the age of retirement between men and women. So what is the ideal retirement age? How can those who expected it to be later or earlier be reconciled to it? And what are the implications for pensions and monetary planning?
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial: Backlash (2)
withjessica Holm. Producer John Ruthven
Sales Talk Live from the Meadowhall Centre, Sheffield.
John Howard asks shoppers for their verdict on the tricks of the selling trade. Producer David Harvey
with Derek Cooper. Producers Sheila Dillon and Marie Helly
with Nick Clarke.
Under Western Eyes
A two-part dramatisation of Joseph Conrad 's novel. l:St Petersburg, 1911. Revolutionary activity is on the increase and, much against his will, Razumov is drawn into the thick of it.
Stereo
BBC correspondents at home and abroad report on one of the main British or foreign topics in this week's news.
Producers Carole Lacey and Howard Rogers
Nigel Forde examines the influence of the emigre author; meets novelist Carol Clewlow who follows A Woman's Guide to Adultery with an exploration of Love in the Modern Sense; and sees the underworld of London's derelict waterways through
Russell Celyn Jones's pickpocket hero.
Tim Marlow reports on the major exhibition of artist Lucian Freud at the Tate Gallery Liverpool; on the Royal Opera House's new production of Don Giovanni ; and on a group of Exeter artists who call themselves the Exeter Letterers.
Producer Julian May. Stereo (Lucian Freud is on Radio 3's Third Eartonightat 7.05pm)
The Proper Respect by Isabel Allende.
Diana Quick reads this story of scoundrels who con their way into the highest echelons of society.
Producer Janet Whitaker
with Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.
Janet Trewin and John Brice visit Canada to look at the problems of running a transport system that spans some 4,000 miles coast tocoast.
Producer Jill Thomas
Jennifer's cover is nearly blown....
Written by Simon Frith
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Woman's Hour
Presenter Chris Serle. Producer Fiona McLean. Stereo
This week's panel:
Rt Hon John Biffen ,
MP; Donald Dewar , MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland;
Margaret Ewing , MP,
Leader, the Parliamentary Group Scottish Nationalist Party; and Alan Beith ,
MP, Treasury Spokesman for the Liberal Democrats.
From Cumbernauld, Scotland.
Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Anna Carragher
Marcel Berlins 's weekly look at the developments in the law and how they affect our lives.
Producer Sallie Davies
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Events of 1991
15 minutes on BBC Radio 4 FM
Available for over a year
Following a recent opinion poll on the significance of the major events of 1991, Alistair Cooke looks back on the previous year and examines the top American choices on the list.
Crooning Like Bilious Pigeons
Voice training has come a long way since Henry Higgins schooled
Eliza Doolittle. Actors in Britain are now encouraged to keep their accents. Paul Allen listens in on the teachers and the taught.
Stereo
by Alistair Cooke.
with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo
Stories of Mystery by Lafcadio Hearn.
5: The Story of itoNorisuke
A look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis ,
Sally Grace , Jon Glover and Julian Dutton.
Producer Gareth Edwards. Stereo
with Nigel Cassidy. Stereo