with Rev Katherine Meyer.

with Brian Redhead.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev James Jones.

(Stereo)

Supporting the Team
In the first of a new series,
Pat Nevin , the Everton footballer, argues that those who make money out of sport have a duty to help players and athletes cope with the problems of sudden celebrity status. Producer Dennis Sewell

Part 14.

with Jenni Murray. Serial: Smoke by Mariana Villa-Gilbert .
The first of four parts read by Crawford Logan.
"His mother, he knew, had lost her heart. And to someone so unlike his father it seemed impossible....
Abridged by Janet Hickson
Music: Jerome Kern 's Smoke Gets in your Eyes

with Roisin McAuley.

Brian Johnston umpires another test of wit and general knowledge.
Taking the crease: Tim Rice and Willie Rushton. with Leslie Thomas and Christopher Martin -Jenkins. From IBM
Hursley Cricket Club, near Winchester.
Producer Jon Magnusson. Stereo

with Nick Clarke in London and James Naughtie in Harrogate.

Stereo

by Derrick Geer.
A series of arson attacks on Welsh holiday cottages seems easy to explain till a body turns up and Pryce and Rees are taken off the case.
Director Alison Hindell. Stereo

Presented by Simon Rae with guest Charles Causley and reader Stephen Thorne.
Producer Julian Wilkinson. Stereo

Robert Dawson-Scott goes to see Alan Rickman as Hamlet, directed by the Georgian Robert Sturua : and Tim Malyon reports on Wisdom and Compassion, an exhibition of Tibetan art at the Royal Academy.
Producer Anthony Denseiow. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Dolly's Mother by Maeve Binchy.
"Mother was tall and willowy and had a smile that made other people smile too and a laugh that caused strangers to look up with pleasure ... If you were square and solid and without colour and grace it was sometimes easy to hate Mother."
Read by Stella McCusker. Producer Eoin O'Callaghan

with Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.

Written by and starring comedian Nick Revell.
4: The Holiday with Alistair McGowan , Caroline Gruber ,
Brian Bowles , Doon Mackichan and Alison Sterling.
Producer Jon Magnusson. Stereo

Tension in the air for
Robin and Caroline. Stereo

The Chosen People The first of two programmes in which Tudor Parfitt journeys through southern Africa in search of the Lemba. Are they the "Black Jews" they claim to be? As the trail leads from Soweto to Great
Zimbabwe, oral tradition, local practices and beliefs and new scholarship reveal an intriguing mystery.
Producer Julian Hale. Stereo

A portrait of the American poet Edna St Vincent Millay (1892-1950) with Gayle Hunnicutt as the poet. Written by Judith Chemaik.
Millay was a great paradox. Not particularly attractive, yet pursued by suitors. Full of restless energy, yet also a neurotic recluse. She personified romantic behaviour in the 1920s, yet in her poetry she is cynical towards love and sex. Her story is told by two of the men who knew her best.
Director John Theocaris. Stereo

with Ted Harrison.
Producer Marlene Pease

Stereo
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White. stereo

with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo

Human Voices
Part 9.

The final part of the thriller by Nigel Baldwin starring Alison Steadman as journalist Dee Mitchell. Now Alex's predictions of death have proved true will anyone take up Dee's quest for justice?
Mrs Mitchell ... LAWMARY CHAMPION
Original music by Laurie Scott Baker Director Jane Dauncey. Stereo

First of a series in which
Francis Wilford Smith looks at the work of five pianists who have made a significant contribution to piano blues.
Montana Taylor
Unusually for a bluesman, Taylor was bom in the northern state of Montana in 1903. He moved south and became one of the greatest of the blues boogie pianists of the rent party years. He was also in demand as a blues singer. Producer Derek Drescher
(First broadcast on Radio 3)