Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
with Fr Dermot Preston , SJ.
with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.
Three different views of animals in the BBC's
Sound Archives.
2: RSPCA vet
Terence Bate unearths the unnatural selection imposed on domestic animals by human fancy. Producer Fran Acheson
with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
The Book of Job
Joss Ackland reads the fourth of seven episodes from the Authorised Version of the Bible.
Producer Michael Fox
Presenter Jenni Murray. Serial: Backlash by Paula Gosling.
The third of 12 episodes read by Peter Marinker. Abridged by MegClarke Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie
with Vincent Duggleby. • LINES OPEN from 10.00am
with Debbie Thrower. Editor Ken Vass
The third heat in the wide-ranging musical quiz, with Ned Sherrin posing questions on anything from Aaron Copland to ZZ Top. Producer Gareth Edwards. Stereo
with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey
Two young Irish singers meet: Aidan is part of the folk-rock revival and Joe is a traditional singer from Sligo. There's friendship and respect until their careers and affections diverge. Written by Patrick Carroll.
(Stereo)
John Humphrys talks to four more people who have weathered major storms in their careers. 1: Bruce Gyngell , chairman of TV-am, who lost his licence to broadcast.
Producer Brian King
Paul Vaughan reports on the major National Theatre production of Tennessee Williams's play The Night of the Iguana; the 80-year-old conductor Gunter Wand is celebrated by two new recordings of Schubert and 20th-century works; and Colin Dexter , creator of Inspector Morse , confesses to an artistic passion.
Producer JohnGoudie. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
by Louis Golding.
In this comedy classic admired by Wodehouse, Albert Wimpole, the original wimp, abruptly changes character.
Read by Hugh Dickson.
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
Stereo
Brian's suspicions are aroused.
Presenter Michael Rosen. American author Paul Zindel , whose book The Pigman leads the way for teenage-fiction writers, talks to Julia Eccleshare. Producer Jill Burridge
Laura Singer
Harriet Walter plays Laure, a middle-class
French girl forced by her father to marry a peasant much older than herself.
David Zane Mairowitz 's lyrical play shows how passionate feeling leads
Laure to song rather than argument.
Director Peter Kavanagh. Stereo
The second of six talks based on the prison journals of John Williams , released on parole in 1990 after serving nine years. "A prison cell can never really be home. It's a place for a time to have a relationship with yourself." Producer Chris Paling. Stereo
Stereo (Revised repeat of4. 05pm)
with Nigel Cassidy. Stereo
with Robin Lustig.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
The Blindfold Horse
Shusha Guppy reads from her memories of a Persian childhood, in ten episodes. 1: My Great-GrandfatherAbridged by Christopher Logue Producer Jane Robinson. Stereo
Classic comedy from the 70s with John Cleese , Tim Brooke-Taylor , Graeme Garden , Bill Oddie , David Hatch and Jo Kendall. Producers David Hatch and Peter Titheradge