As farmers come under attack from environmentalists, many are turning to farming the sea. Euan Mcllwraith takes a look at fish farming: from the invisible oyster farm to the high-tech salmon that travel by helicopter.
Producer Tim Finney
with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day, with Rev. Myra Blyth
with Bryon Butler.
Producer Graeme Reid Davies
Breakaway heads for the Southern States, for a Tennessee Special. Liz Kershaw visits
Nashville, home of country music and a delightful concoction named GooGoo
Cluster at the Loveless
Hotel. Simon Parkes lays a Blanket on the Ground in the Smokey Mountains, and stays in the Chattanooga ChooChoo Hotel.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
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with Ned Sherrin and Arthur Smith ,
Emma Freud and John Walters. Producer Alison Vernon-Smith
Stereo
Trading Insults
With the election campaign over, will civility return to the political debate? Or is that unnatural? Is the truth that well-honed insults and invective are the proper ammunition of politics? This week Vivian White reviews the history and utility of the trade in political insults.
Producer Dennis Sewell
Gordon Clough travels the byways of the continent to record conversations over the garden walls.
Producer Maria Balinska
Presented by Maggie Drummond.
Producer Frances MacDonald
Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains
Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren and their guests. Producer Colin Swash. Stereo
The panel includes
Dr Marjorie Mowlam (Labour).
From Hardwick, Cambridgeshire. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
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The Legend of Robin Hood
John Nettles stars as the great English hero in a radio adventure for all ages. Drawing on the original Robin Hood ballads, John Fletcher 's epic play takes Robin from May Day revels in Sherwood to crusading battles in the Holy Land - and back again to a life and death struggle with the Sheriff of Nottingham, and an even more sinister enemy....
With David Holt , Richard Mitchley and Pat Quayle. Music composed and performed by Vic Gammon.
Director Nigel Bryant. Stereo
The unique story of a lifetime relationship between a falconer and his
29-year-old African falcon. Producer Martin Kurzik
(First broadcast on Radio Wales)
with Alun Lewis live from the Edinburgh
International Science
Festival.
Producer Julia Durbin
The last in the present series on the pros and cons of the greener global life. With Roger Harrabin. Producer Jeffrey Olstead
Simon Hoggart and friends take a satirical look at life.
Producer Brian King
and Sports Round-Up
Meet two of comedy's fastest-rising stars - Harry Hill and Alistair McGowan
- in their own Easter spectacular.
With guests Mark Hurst and Fred McAuley. Stereo
with Robert Robinson.
Animated table talk inspired by current public and private preoccupations. Producer Michael Ember. Stereo
A Radio Hamlet
Kenneth Branagh plays Hamlet in a new production of Shakespeare's tragedy on Radio 3 later this month.
Any production of Hamlet reflects its own times, and Paul Allen looks ahead to this radio event with Kenneth Branagh , director Glyn Dearman and other members of a cast which includes Dame Judi Dench and Sir John Gielgud.
Producer Jerome Weatherald. Stereo
Carmen
Adapted in two parts by Stephen Jeffreys , from the story by Prosper Merimee . 1: Amidst the turmoil of the Spanish Civil war, Jose, a young Basque, meets Carmen, a gypsy, and a fatal obsession is bom.
Music: Andrew Dodge
Director Claire Grove. Stereo
Sue MacGregor goes to the Hackney Empire in London to talk to its director, Roland Muldoon.
Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo
A rreading. a hymn and a reflection led by Fr David Hutt.
Stereo
Is Democracy
Compatible with Islam? Last in the series of discussions chaired by Edward Mortimer.
Producer Anna Parkinson. Stereo
A series of five talks in which South Africans look at what the future holds for their country. In the second, the Nobel Prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer wonders what part writers and artists should play in building the new South Africa.
with composer John Tavener. Stereo
First of two programmes. Victoria Wood returns with some of her favourite co-stars in a show which includes the best of her award-winning TV programme. Stereo 0 COMEDY: page 9