Presented and produced by Tim Finney.
James Whitboum in conversation with a special guest.
Producer Christine Morgan
with Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Umar Hegedus.
Cliff Morgan with news, issues and conversation from the sporting world. Producer Robin Bailey
The holiday and travel programme presented by Pete McCarthy. This week Susan Marling goes to
Buckinghamshire's Stowe Gardens.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Ned Sherrin hosts an hour of live interjections from the likes of Arthur Smith.
Annabel Giles and Emma Freud.
Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo
Michael White , Political Editor of The Guardian, presents a personal view of a week in the life of MPs and peers.
Producer Dennis Sewell
BBC correspondents around the world give a personal view of their host countries. producer Geoff Spink
Alison Mitchell with news and advice about personal finance.
The antidote to panel games.
In the chair: Humphrey
Lyttelton. Round the table: Willie Rushton , Tim Brooke-Taylor ,
Paul Merton and Barry Cryer. On the piano: Colin Sell. Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo
The panel: Chris Pond , Director of the Low Pay Unit; Ian Hay Davison. businessman;
Gillian Shephard MP, Secretary of State for Employment; and Harriet Harman MP, Opposition
Spokeswoman on Health. From Yeovil, Somerset. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby.
And at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]
Your opportunity to call Jonathan Dimbleby with your views on the issues raised in this week's edition of Any Questions? Producers Nick Utechin and Keith Jones
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The Second Mrs
Tanqueray
In Arthur Wing Pinero's tragic drama,
Aubrey Tanqueray remarries and prepares to lose his friends. But his relationship with his daughter is also threatened by the ghosts of his wife's past.
Adapted and directed by Sue Wilson.
Stereo
The first of four programmes in which Dr David Cook discusses a particular medical ethical dilemma with the people to whom it matters most - the doctor and the patient. 1: A lady who's been paralysed for seven years, is unable to talk and is fed through the nose. Her daughter and her doctor disagree about her quality of life. Is she being condemned to live?
Producer Alison Bogle
Use It or Lose It?
Is the only hope for the Brazilian rainforest to harvest its natural wealth?
In the first of two special reports on the eve of the UN Earth Summit, Charles de Ledesma travels through Brazil looking at sustainable ways of using this fruitful environment. Producer Julia Durbin
(Part 2 on Tuesday at 8.00pm)
An exploration of the wildlife of Britain. Producer Grant Sonnex
Topical discussion show in which
Patrick Hannan and his guests take a sceptical look at the week's events. Producer Richard Thomas
and Sports Round-Up
A satirical look back at the week's news with the Week Ending team.
Stereo
with Robert Robinson.
Animated table talk inspired by current public and private preoccupations. Producer Ronni Davis. Stereo
Larks Ascending
Just before he volunteered for active service in the First World War.
RalphVaughan Williams completed The Lark
Ascending for violin and orchestra, a fiendish challenge for a violinist. Iona Brown performs it, with memories of the composer from
Ursula Vaughan Williams and Sir Neville Marriner , and the sounds of the larks recorded by Richard Margoschis.
Producer Richard Bannerman Stereo
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Last episode of Tobias Smollett 's boisterous tour by coach and four round Georgian Britain.
To the North and Home
Again
Dramatised by Scott Cherry Music: Matthew Scott
Director Clive Brill. Stereo
In the fifth episode of a six-part series Richard Holmes raises some intriguing questions about Dr
Johnson in conversation with fellow biographer Rebecca Fraser.
Stereo.
Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo
with the Rev
Dr Leslie Griffiths.
Stereo
Nick Baker makes contact with Ufologists. Their
"-ology" can be a hobby, a counselling service, or a profession investigating unknown flying objects and the inner spaces of the human mind.
Producer Penny Lawrence. Stereo
Bernard Braden ambles through the world of transatlantic humour in a series of six programmes. 2:
The Bard of Avon. Producer Edward Taylor
. Stereo
with folk musician
Kathryn Tickell.
Stereo.
Simon Brett presents diary extracts for 22nd May. In 1653 there were worries about water shortages; in 1758 the concern was about debt-collecting; and in 1940 diarists feared
Hitler's invasion of Britain.
Readers are Sean Barrett and Lin Sagovsky.
Stereo.
