Producers Sue Broom and Steve
Punter
with Alison Bogle.
with John Humphrys and Susannah Simons.
Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Dr Colin Morris.
by Gordon West.
Read in eight parts by Leonard Pearcey.
6: The Song Of The Train. Stereo
in Florence, with Melvyn Bragg.
With guests Dr Marco Chiarini of the Pitti
Palace's Palantine Gallery: Count Nieri Capponi. celebrated lawyer;
Matthew Spender , born again Tuscan; Marquesa Fiamma Di San Giuliano of the House of Ferragamo; Rosanna Cirigliano of the "Republica".
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
Matthew. The ninth of ten parts, read by Derek Jacobi. Producer Alison Bogle
Do women in sport have a powerful will to win? In a special one-hour event athlete Tessa Sanderson and Welsh rugby captain leuan Evans get set to join Jenni Murray on her marks.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Story: Two Stories About Emma by Margaret Atwood , read by Shelley Thompson. Abridged by Delia Paton
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie
Vincent Duggleby opens the Money Box postbag. Producer Robert McKenzie
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with John Howard.
A nationwide general knowledge contest chaired by Robert Robinson.
Gerard Hetherington (Civil Servant); Charles Marriott (Building Society
Surveyor); Peter Watson (retired Journalist); lain Noble (Market Research Services Manager).
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
Adapted from
Helene Hanff s novel by James Roose-Evans .
The true story of a love affair between two people who never meet.
Director Hilary Norrish
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The third of six episodes of biographers in conversation. Margaret Forster talks to
Philip Hoare about his work in progress on a new life of Noel Coward.
Producer Ed Thomason
With Expo 92 now in full swing, Paul Vaughan reports on the arts and architecture on show, including the biggest wall of water in the world created by sculptor
William Pye for the British pavilion; and there's a look at the musical life of Seville itself, the setting for numerous operas, including Bizet's Carmen. Producer John Goudie. Stereo
At Hiruharama by Penelope Fitzgerald Read by Susan Cumow. Producer David Hunter
with Valerie Singleton and Wendy Austin.
Stereo
A May Day safari for a Grundy - with a difference!
Phil Smith 's guide to retirement.
5: Have pension, will travel.
Rutherford and Son
A bullyingTyneside factory owner is locked into conflict with his own children in Githa Sowerby 's 1912 classic stage play.
Director Michael Fox. Stereo
A special bank holiday business report, presented by Nigel Cassidy. Stereo
with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd.
The first of ten episodes, read by Robert Powell and Ian Hogg. An 18th-century architect and a 20th-century detective are linked through a series of savage murders.
Abridged by Aubrey Woods
Producer Michael Fox. Stereo
by Douglas Adams
Our heroes have some close encounters with others and themselves.
Producer Geoffrey Perkins. Stereo (First broadcast in 1980)
The popular singer
Adelaide Hall, now in her late 80s, in the last of her conversations with June Knox-Mawer.
Producer Derek Drescher Stereo
