with Rev Robert Paterson.

with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev
Dr Donald English.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament.

Chris Dunkley of the Financial Times airs your letters and comments on BBC programmes and policy.
Producer Nadine Grieve
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● Chris Dunkley writes on The Future of Radio: page 34

Romans
Part 4.

From the North.
With Christa Ackroyd.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
The Fireman's Fire
Final part.

Presented by Jessica Holm. Producer Sarah Blunt

with John Howard.

with Derek Cooper. Producers Sheila Dillon and Marie Helly

with Susannah Simons.

Stereo

A four-part serialisation of A S Byatt's novels The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life, dramatised by John Harvey.
Stephanie gives up teaching in anticipation of the birth of her first child. Her sister Frederica's horizons, however, are expanding as she finally realises one of her long-cherished ambitions.
Stereo

BBC correspondents at home and abroad report on one of the main British or foreign topics in this week's news.
Producers Carole Lacey and Howard Rogers

When author Muriel Spark 's first novel appeared, following her conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1954, she had already established a reputation as a poet and biographer. The Comforters was warmly received and was followed by many novels, including her best known, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. She is about to publish a volume of autobiography. Nigel Forde examines her particular talent for elegant, comic and eccentric stories.
Nigel Williams talks about his new comic novel, They Came from SW19, and Kate Figes selects the pick of the summer's paperback reading.
Producer Sally Marmion. Stereo

A major retrospective of the impressionist painter Alfred Sisley ; and Pete Davies , author of Storm Country, ventures into small-town America.
Natalie Wheen's guest is the conductor
Richard Hickox.
Producer John Goudie. Stereo

The Passport Officer by James Thurlby.
Harding's pressurised business life is having a strange effect on him.
Read by Paul Daneman.
Producer Duncan Minshull

with Eddie Meir and Frank Partridge.

with Janet Trewin. Producer Jill Thomas

Nigel's childhood comes up trumps at Lower Loxley.
Written by Graham Harvey Director Vanessa Whitburn
Stereo

From South Ascot, Berkshire.
Panel: Bryan Gould , MP, Shadow Environment
Secretary; Sir Simon Hornby , Chairman of W H Smith ; Peter Lilley , MP; Judy Weleminsky , Director, National Council for Voluntary Organisations. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Nick Utechin

Marcel Berlins ' weekly look at the law.
Producer Sallie Davies

The idea of sportsmanship and the battle against the steroids which can help fulfil athletic ambitions in the approach to the Barcelona Olympic Games .

by Alistair Cooke.

with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo

The Way of All Flesh Part 5.

Producer Louise Coats. Stereo

with Heather Payton.