with Rt Rev Peter Firth , Bishop of Malmesbury.
with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Dr John Newton.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament.
Aneight-part series on life in one of Britain's largest hospitals - Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry. 1: Senior management clash with the public over proposals to make the hospital a self-governing trust; and staff in the Emergency Admissions Department try to cope with too many patients and not enough beds. Producers Sarah Rowlands and Brian King
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The Gospel of Mark 7: The Crucifixion
with Jenni Murray.
Fancy drifting along a balmy Caribbean beach? Or maybe fighting a blood-drenched battle is more to your taste? Sue Margolis investigates Virtual Reality. (Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
Coroner's Pidgin (8)
Producer Geoff Spink
with Debbie Thrower.
by Jim Eldridge. Starring James Grout as Mr Beeston , the Head Teacher. 7: Taking the Rap
There is often more to "playing truant" than meets the eye, as Mr Long is to discover.
Producer John Fawcett Wilson Stereo
with James Naughtie.
A woman leams to face tragedy when In Vitro
Fertilisation goes wrong and her baby son is bom with a genetic disease.
Written by Neil Shenton.
Director Michael Fox. Stereo
Simon Rae introduces the winning poems in the BBC Wildlife Young Poet of the Year competition, along with your poetry requests, read by Sara Markland and David Sterne. Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo •REQUESTS TO: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Paul Allen is at the first night of Coriolanus with Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench ; and also sees American actor
John Malkovich in A Slip of the Tongue; plus the pick of Glasgow's Mayfest and the music of the Neville
Brothers.
Producer Sarah Johnson. Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
The Boarding House by James Joyce.
A determined landlady exacts a just reparation. Read by Maurice O'Callaghan. Producer Eoin O'Callaghan Stereo
with Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.
Events Plus Edition.
Special edition of the news oversight programme, featuring an extended look at events.
Guest presenter Christopher Morris. And introducing Stuart Lee, Richard Herring, Andrew Glover, Steven Wells and David Quantick with the events.
Producer Armando lannucci
Stereo
Caroline discovers the root of all evil.
What's Left?
After socialism, social democracy; after social democracy, what? David Walker asks how and on what principles the Left might seek to re-invent itself.
Producer Chris Westcott
In a series of six programmes, Christopher Cook delves into the BBC
Sound Archives to discover something of the great figures of the past through the memories of those who met them.
Producer John Knight
with Ted Harrison.
For disabled listeners.
Producer Marlene Pease
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(Mon-Fri 10.00am-5.00pm) •WRITE to: Does He Take
Sugar?, BBC, London W1A 1AA
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Mark Gregory. Stereo
with Alexander MacLeod. Stereo
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd.
Part 9 read by Robert Powell and Ian Hogg.
Stereo
A six-part techno-thriller by Shaun Prendergast. 4: Following the unsuccessful attempt on Kim's life at Elsinor by Miss Gee, Kim turns to Todd for help. In Paris, Kim and Charles meet
Seeta, a fugitive with a dreadful secret.
Director Adrian Bean. Stereo