Presented and produced by Tim Finney.
with James Whitboum.
with Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev David Winter.
with Cliff Morgan. Producer Robin Bailey
The holiday and travel programme presented by Bill Oddie. This week Gill Elliot finds herself shouting uncontrollably into the microphone at Ascot Racecourse. Producer Sara Jane Hall
Ned Sherrin with Robert
Elms, Victoria Mather and The Men Who Know.
Producer Alison Vernon Smith
Stereo
The Conservative
Party
Michael White, Political Editor of The Guardian, reports on this week's Conservative Party
Conference in Brighton. Producer Dennis Sewell
Producer Geoff Spink
with Alison Mitchell. Producer Virginia Eastman
Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains
Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren and their guests. Producer Colin Swash. Stereo
Nick Clarke and guests Frank Dobson , MP, Shadow Employment Secretary;
Simon Hughes , MP, Liberal
Democrat Spokesman on the Environment and Natural Resources: Rt
Hon Malcolm Rifkind , MP, Defence Secretary; and Hugo Young , journalist, tackle the issues raised in Eastbourne.
Producers Nick Utechin and Alison Vernon Smith
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A Season of Clear
Shining
Nan Woodhouse 's story of a Quaker and a Catholic trying to reconcile their love and different beliefs in the intolerant world of 17th-century England.
Director Tony Cliff. Stereo
Alan Hankinson demolishes some of the romantic legends clustering around the last Earl of Derwentwater.
Stereo
Most people who go to work are conscientious, industrious and loyal. Not the ones in this series, though. Clare Mclntyre as Dr Kirsty McProtkin has a frank talk about the other side of working life.
1:The Art of Skiving. A plumber, a removal man, a solicitor and others confess all.
Producer Fiona Couper. Stereo
A weekly review of discoveries and developments.
Producer James Clarke
Lionel Kelleway reports from the sand dunes of the Kenfig National Nature Reserve in Glamorgan. Producer Simon Roberts
with Simon Hoggart. Producer Brian King
Stereo
Robert Robinson ad libs with a group of chess players about the sex and death in chess.
Producer Nadine Grieve
No Master's Voice
Performers' co-operatives in the arts are hardly a novelty, but for a group of songwriters based in untrendy Rotherham to get together to develop their craft and protect their rights is a rather unusual, not to say unique event.
"No Master's Voice" talk to
Dave Sheasby.
Producer Dave Sheasby. Stereo
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A story of passion and repression set in Boston in the 1640s and dramatised in two episodes.
1: Hester Prynne , a scarlet letter on her breast and her baby in her arms, stands on the scaffold as the crowd surrounds her and cries out for her execution. Hester's sin of adultery is plain to see by the letter "A" she wears, but who should take the place by her side?
Dramatised by Greg Snow
Director Tracey Neale. Stereo
In the first of six conversations,
Ferdinand Dennis talks with Val McCalla , founder of the Voice, Britain's largest-selling black newspaper.
Stereo
More favourite melodies presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo
led by Rev Keith Clements. Stereo
Catholics tell their personal stories of what goes on in the confessional, and priests reveal their own dilemmas.
Reporter Jennifer Holden. Producer Tessa Watt. Stereo
A series of six programmes in which journalists remember the first faltering steps they took in their careers.
5: Inquests, Weddings and Bazaars.
In the 1920s, female reporters were as rare as snowflakes in summer.
Undeterred by this,
17-year-old Mary Stott worms her way onto the Leicester Mail.
Producer Caroline Adams
A series of six programmes in which Andrew Green invites musicians to choose music which reflects the character and spirit of their native countries. In the first programme, Vladimir Ashkenazy talks about Russia and its music.
Stereo
Starring Tom Miles and Rob Millner , Jim Tavare , Jonathan Cecil and Flaminia Cinque.
Producer Harry Thompson. Stereo
