with Simon Parkes.
Producer Sue Broom
with James Whitboum.
with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Father Oliver McTeman.
with Cliff Morgan.
Producer Joanne Watson
with Pete McCarthy.
This week the programme comes from the Garden
Festival, Wales.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
Christopher Morris reports continuously, with news oversights by Steve Coogan , Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber ,
Doon MacKichan , and David Schneider.
Producers Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris. Stereo
More comedy re-creations starring Michael Roberts as Groucho and Frank Lazarus as Chico.
With Graham Hoadly , Lorelei King and guest stars Spike Milligan and Dick Vosburgh. Script by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman
Adapted by Mark Bnsenden Music by David Firman
Producer Dirk Maggs. Stereo
The True Spirit with Chris Lowe.
Will the 25th Olympiad mark a turning-point for sport and politics? Producer Charles Sigler
with Gordon Clough. Editor Anna Carragher
with Roger White.
3: Decisions, Decisions! The pensions dilemma. Producer Ann Gilmartin
Referee Desmond Lynam. Team captains
Rory Bremner and Rory McGrath and their guests,
Gary Mabbut and Steve Cram. Producer Richard Edis. Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 5)
From Southam,
Warwickshire. The panel: Robin Cook , MP,
Shadow Health Secretary; Michael Portillo , MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury; Ruth Deech , Principal, St Anne's
College, Oxford;
Alan Beith MP, Liberal Democrat
Spokesman on Treasury Affairs. Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. Producer Nick Utechin
Producers Nick Utechin and Lucy Cacanas
● LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
Birthday
Dawn French makes her radio debut in Michael Frayn 's comedy, as the heavily pregnant Jess who disrupts her sister Liz's 27th birthday.
Adapted and directed by Matthew Walters. Stereo
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The Wicket Keeper Four visits to Mayfield Cricket Club, a typical village team.
1: The Wicket Keeper Wicket keeper Les Chapman talks about his
40 years at the club.
Producer Sally Marmion. Stereo
with Christopher Cook.
As John Major begins his presidency of the Council of the EC and diplomats continue their discussions on the Maastricht Treaty, John Miller looks back to the Congress of Vienna in 1814, which has been described as the birth of modem Europe. John Roberts , Warden of Merton College, Oxford, considers A J P Taylor's The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, and Richard Langhorne discusses
Europe since Yalta and Potsdam.
Producer John Knight
with Alun Lewis.
Producer Julia Durbin
Twenty years ago the Blueprint For Survival was published. Roger Harrabin asks its editor, Edward Goldsmith , if he thinks anything has really changed since then. And Dylan Winter finds out whether there is environmental friendliness after death.
Producer Jeffrey Olstead
New York
Oliver Sacks, author of Awakenings, evokes the atmosphere of New York. Producer Martin Buckley
and Sports Round-Up
Stereo
with Robert Robinson.
Producer Ronni Davis. Stereo
Tirra Lirra by the River Why was Sir Lancelot's song so beguiling? In the centenary of Tennyson's death, Kaleidoscope celebrates his best-loved poem The Lady o/Slialott. Producer Beaty Rubens. Stereo
Claudius by Robert Graves.
A three-part radio version by Eric Ewens. 1: /,
Claudius Claudius tells of his life at court, his grandmother
Livia's ambitions, and the accession of Caligula.
Adapted and directed by Glyn Dearman. Stereo
Sue MacGregor talks to Margaret Barraclough.
Stereo
Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo
led by Fr Dermot Preston. Stereo
Last programme in the series. Celibacy - a case for pity or envy?
Chairman Andrew Marr. Producer Sheila Cook. Stereo
with Helen Lederer and Amelia Bullmore , Michael Raeburn , James Quinn and Victoria Finney , in the last programme of the series.
Producer Paul Z Jackson. Stereo
with Jeremy Nicholas and guest John Drummond.
Stereo
A series of plays by women about sex.
2: A Month of Lunchtimes
Alison Leonard 's play explores how new lovers cannot be free of the past. Director Jane Dauncey Stereo
