with Rev Stephen Lynas.
with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rachel Stephens.
Episode 5. Stereo
Your chance to talk to
Chris Lowe and his guests on an issue of the moment. Producer Nadine Grieve ●Lines open from 8am
Denis Quilley concludes the reading of the First
Letter to Peter followed by the Second Letter to Peter.
with Alison Hilliard.
Serial: Family (4)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer James Clarke
with Sally Hawkins. Editor Ken Vass
2. The Stranger In Our Midst.
Including a Frenchman on cricket, Mark Twain on Europe, and the British diplomat who swallowed a moth! Read by Prunella Scales , Paul Eddington and Timothy West.
Adapted by Mike Barfield from The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose
Producer Colin Swash. Stereo
with James Naughtie.
A to B and Back Again Love and Flo are vegetarians and New
Agers and are thinking of moving to where the air is purer and where there is inner silence. But their friends Kev and Cassandra - like Madonna - are into overunderwear, and have new ideas for Love and Flo.
Written by Nick Pullin.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin. Stereo
Soprano Sarah Walker is Jeremy Nicholas 's guest. Stereo
Britain is the divorce capital of Western Europe. But what if Parliament hadn't passed the so-called "Casanova's Charter" which made it easier to get a divorce? Would things be different today?
Christopher Andrew is joined by Judge Alan King Hamilton who recalls the cases in which he thinks everyone lied, and by Chris Clulow of the Tavistock Institute for Marital Studies.
Producer Ian Bell
Listeners report on a variety of issues that affect their lives and could affect yours.
With Susan Marling. Editor Jenny Walmsley
●WRITE TO: Punters, BBC Radio 4. Bristol BS8 2LR •PHONE: 0[number removed]
Gill Pyrah investigates a new breed of film transferred straight onto video, and talks to the author Darryl Pinckney about his book
High Cotton.
Robert Dawson-Scott reports on dance at the Edinburgh Festival. Producer Sarah Johnson
Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
The Closed Shop by W Somerset Maugham. Read by Brian Gear. "The young men of fashion preferred to spend their evenings at the Grand Hotel - where they received for soft words entertainment, which at the regular establishments they could only have got for hard cash."
Producer Viv Beeby
with Brian Hanrahan and Frank Partridge.
Another edition of the popular quotation game. Chairman Nigel Rees , with Charles Osborne , Katharine Whitehorn , Hunter Davies and Benny Green.
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher.
Producer Jon Naismith
Stereo
Sharon's into Scandals. Stereo
The professional prankster Jeremy Beadle faces Dr Anthony Clare in The Psychiatrist's Chair. Stereo
John Florance explores the "blue remembered hills" of A E Housman's
Shropshire with Jane Caulcott from the Housman Society. They evoke the poet's landscape and origins through readings and observation. Producer Rosie Boulton
with Cheryl Gabriel. Producer Eleanor Garland
●QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: tel [number removed]between
9.15pm and 10.15pm
Stereo
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White. Stereo
Stereo
Lucky Jim Final part.
The third in a series of late night conversations about poetry. Andrew McAllister takes a look at politics and poetry with Liz Lochhead , Simon Rae and Miroslav Holub. With readings by Lemn Sissay ,
Tom Leonard and Tom Paulin. Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo
with Chris Kelly. This week Antonio Carlucci and Nigella Lawson take on Michael Jackson and Henrietta Green.
Producer Richard Wilson. Stereo