with the Rev John Rackley.
with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Philip Crowe.
The Mythmaker's Office "Death" becomes unmentionable, and people arrive from the moon sucking lozenges.
My Last Story brings this series to a poignant end. Stereo
Producer Mohini Patel
•Lines open from 8.00am
The First Letter of St Paul to Timothy
with Alison Hilliard.
They have brains very like ours, and have built an utterly harmonious matriarchal civilisation.
Jean Snedegar explores the world of bees and their keepers.
Story: Loulou; or, the Domestic Life of the Language by Margaret Atwood.
with Geoff Watts. Producer Julia Durbin
with Sally Hawkins.
From William Caxton to P G
Wodehouse - a conducted tour by Frank Muir. 1: First Things First
Including the first printed joke, a doctor's first ward-round and a baby's first appearance. Readers
Prunella Scales ,
Richard Briers and Timothy West. Adapted by Mike Barfield from The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose
Producer Colin Swash. Stereo
with James Naughtie.
It's Better to Travel
Marianne Carey 's first play for radio is all about finding the right recipe for romance, as Lizzie slaves in the kitchen to spice up her marriage to stick-in-the-mud Ron. Director Patrick Rayner Stereo
Writer and jazz musician Barry Fantoni is Jeremy Nicholas 's guest. Stereo
Newspaper stories about the private lives of the Prince and Princess of Wales provoked a vigorous response from the new Press Complaints Commission - but that didn't stop them appearing. Would those and other stories have been treated differently if the reforms proposed in 1977 had been acted upon? Rewriting history this week are
Lord Blom Cooper , the last Chairman of the Press Council, and the Ombudsman for the Guardian, Prof Hugh Stephenson.
Producer Ian Bell
with Susan Marling. Editor Jenny Walmsley
As a new biography is published, Paul Vaughan investigates the importance of Hubert Parry as a composer. Also a review of Polish sci-fi novelist Stanislaw Lem 's novel Memoirs Found in a Bathtub.
Producer Alasdair Cross. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
The Cowboy by Lamorna Hutchison.
Read by Stuart McQuarrie. "He wore a waistcoat, bright red, and a black boot-lace tie, and slung casually round his hips was a gun in a holster.
And it was that gun that made us all look at him." Producer David Jackson Young
with Valerie Singleton and Wendy Austin.
Questionable quotes and quotable quips from a quintessential quartet of Brian Glover , Maureen Freely, Peter Wood and Frederic Raphael. With Nigel Rees in the chair.
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher.
Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo
Promises, promises. Stereo
Dr Anthony Clare talks to Glenys Kinnock.
John Florance visits Hull and through poetry and observation explores the city Philip Larkin made his own.
Producer Julia Gillett
With Peter White. Producer Thena Heshel
•QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: tel 071.[number removed]between
9.15pm and 10.15pm
Stereo
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White. Stereo
with Alexander MacLeod. Stereo
Lucky Jim Part 7.
The second in a series of late-night conversations about poetry.
Andrew McAllister invites Jackie Kay , Alan Jenkins and Peter Porter to take a look at what's happening on the poetry scene - and to read some of their latest work.
Readings by Kathleen Jamie , Simon Armitage , Ian Duhig and Paul Muldoon.
Producer Susan Roberts
Stereo
Chris Kelly hosts the quiz in which a starter for ten is a very expensive prawn cocktail.
This week: Oz Clarke, Josceline Dimbleby ,
Michael Bateman and Susan Brookes. Recorded at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London.
Producer Richard Wilson. Stereo
