Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
with Canon Barney Milligan.
with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.
Sue Townsend's latest novel, read in eight parts by Miriam Margoyles. 6: Justice
Abridged by Elizabeth Proud
Producer John Tydeman. Stereo
with Melvyn Bragg and guests for lively and stimulating conversation. Producer Manna Salandy-Brown Stereo
I Stories from the Hindu tradition. i: introduction by Akhandadhi Dasa , editor of text and stories. Readers Art Malik , Mamta Kaash and Nitish Bharadwaj. Music: Malcolm Clarke Producer Juh Wills
As Oxfam celebrates its
50th birthday, Jenni Murray considers its achievements and examines the future role of international aid agencies. Serial: A Woman of the Pharisees by Francois Mauriac. The third of 12 episodes read by Terence Hardiman.
Translated by Gerard Hopkins Abridged by Sally Skrimshire Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie
with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Virginia Eastman ●Lines open from 10.00am
with John Howard.
London (Irene Thomas and Eric Korn ) versus the Midlands (
Peter Oppenheimer and John Julius Norwich ). Questionmasters:
Gordon Clough and Anthony Quinton.
Producer Paul Z Jackson. Stereo
with Nick Clarke.
Stereo
by Frank White.
Billy Leng 's a 13-year-old optimist who's certain he can better himself in wartime Manchester.
But he's reckoned without the strains of life on the Home Front.
Director Tony Cliff. Stereo
In the first of six conversations.
Ferdinand Dennis talks with Val McCalla , founder of The Voice, Britain's largest -selling black newspaper, which has spawned a new generation of black journalists.
Producer Marina Salandy Brown Stereo
Natalie Wheen talks to
Andrew Davis , a Bath stonemason who has become a portrait photographer. The studio guest is the conductor
Andrew Litton , currently rehearsing Porgy and Bess. Producer John Boundy. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
The Luncheon by Somerset Maugham.
A nightmarish lunch-date for him who picks up the bill. But revenge is sweet. Read by Robert Rietty.
Producer Duncan Mmshull
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.
A taste of the high life. Stereo
with Derek Cooper.
Blossom before Essence by Dave Conway.
Itored with traditional labels in the cliche that is
"Riot-torn Belfast", Jean and Blossom decide upon a revolution with a difference.
Director Eom O'Callaghan. Stereo
In the second of a four-part series, Californian writer William T Vollmann , author of Whores for
Gloria and Fathers and Crows, offers his views on the debacle in Yugoslavia. Producer Noah Richler
Stereo
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White. Stereo
with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo
The 1992 £20.000 Booker Prize for Fiction will be awarded on Tuesday 13 October. On each of the next six weekday nights an extract from one of the six shortlisted novels will be broadcast.
Tonight: Serenity House by Christopher Hope , read by Alan Towner. Producer David Hunter
Stop press! The roar of the mighty presses is stopped to invite you to meet the members of the Weekly
Bind newspaper. Starring Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne , with Sam Costa , Maurice Denham and Dora Bryan. With The BBC Men's Chorus and Variety Orchestra.
Producer Leslie Bridgmont (First broadcast in 1953)
Nigel Rees hosts another edition of the popular quiz based on the evolution of quotations. Looking for the missing links are Charles Osborne ,
Katharine Whitehom ,
Hunter Davies and Benny Green.
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher.
Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo
