with the Rev Peter Read.

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rt Rev Jim Thompson
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament.

Michael Buerk chairs a live investigation into the moral questions behind the week's news.
Witnesses face cross-examination from
Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Janet Daley , Edward Pearce and Professor Roger Scruton. Producer David Coomes
Stereo

First of four programmes. Suzanne Levy has brunch in New York, beginning with Yoner Shimell 's
Kenishs and ending up in the Erotic Bakery.
Producer Elizabeth Burke. Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 3)

The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians (2)

Withjenni Murray.
Serial: Bucket Nut (4).

Producer Geoff Spink

with Debbie Thrower.

Howie Firth chairs a quizzical look at the far side of science in the company of Sheila Anderson , Heinz Wolff , John Davies and David Hughes. In this first programme: having fun with the noble gases, confusing your pet honey-bee, and the inexorable rise of Finland.
Producer Christopher Lambton Stereo

with James Naughtie.

Stereo

Ray Ball 's romantic comedy on two wheels.
Len, Colin and Denis take their annual cycling holiday, but a widow joins the party and changes everything.
Director Tony Cliff Stereo

from the Pump Room in Bath. Simon Rae introduces a selection of listeners' requests, read by Eleanor Bron and Tim Pigott Smith. Producer Susan Roberts Stereo •REQUESTS TO: Poetry Please! BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

Paul Allen 's guest is Frank McGuinness , whose new hostage play opens tomorrow. There is also a review of Melvyn Bragg 's play King Lear in New Yorl? at the Chichester
Festival and a report on translation in films.
Producer Sarah Johnson. Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

A Dangerous Remedy by Rhys Davies.
When Jane Puw falls ill, Dr Vavasor Evans prescribes the best known cure.
Read by Huw Ceredig. Producer Caroline Sarll

with Frank Partridge.

by Jim Eldridge.
Starring Karl Howman as Mr Sims and James Grout as Mr Beeston.
2: Witch Hunt
A dissatisfied parent challenges the "teacher knows best" syndrome.
Producer John Fawcett Wilson
Stereo

There's something in the air to cheer Robin up! Stereo

Is God dead? In the 20th century numerous obituaries have been written by philosophers, scientists and others, but reports of God's demise seem premature. Religious belief is flourishing worldwide and now, with bishops edging away from supernatural beliefs and physicists flirting with mysticism, something strange seems to be going on. Melanie Phillips speaks to prominent atheists and believers.
Producer Martin Buckley. Stereo

The Matrimonial State The institution of marriage is out of fashion. David Walker asks whether what's happening to the traditional, formal bonding of men and women is any business of the policy-makers Producer Simon Coates

Presented by Kati Whitaker from Galludet University,
Washington DC - a unique institution which only admits deaf and hard of hearing students.
Producer Marlene Pease
•PHONE: [number removed](Mon-Fri 10.00am-5.00pm)

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Mark Gregory. Stereo

with Robin Lustig. Stereo

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler. Part 9.

Bruce Bedford's dark, time-hopping thriller, set in Bath.
2: Saul's post brings a laureate's surprise plus a bill for pornography.
Music composed by Thomas Johnson , realised by Robin Leaver Producer Andy Jordan. Stereo