Alan Stennett visits Husker Harvest Days, a farm show in the American state of Nebraska, to talk to the real farmers of the Mid West.
Producer Tim Finney
With James Whitboum.
with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.45 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jonathan Fryer.
with Cliff Morgan. Producer Gill Pulsford
Presented by Bill Oddie. This week Liz Kershaw joins Reg Holdsworth ,
Vera Duckworth and Rita Fairclough on board a Coronation Street cruise to Lisbon.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
with Ned Sherrin.
Producer Dymphna Flynn Stereo
with Andrew Marr. Producer Dennis Sewell
The series returns with a new presenter, Brian Hanrahan , with news and views from the Atlantic to the Urals. Editor Anna Carragher
with Alison Mitchell. Producer Alan Griffiths
Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains
Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren and their guests WF Deedes and Nick Clarke. Producer Colin Swash. Stereo
A panel of leading figures in public life tackle the issues raised in Belfast. Chairman Nick Clarke.
with Nick Clarke. Producers Nick Utechin and Keith Jones
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Touching the Rock
John M Hull , Professor of Religion at Birmingham University, went blind at the age of 40 in 1980. This is his own account of the experience of blindness, dramatised by Jane Coles.
Piano played by Stuart Hutchinson Director Matthew Walters. Stereo
Richard Kelly tells the story of the Italians who sailed for New York yet who ended up in the North East of England. Producer Gillian Hush
The other side of working life, with Clare Mclntyre as Dr Kirsty McProtkin. 3: Perks and Pranks.
Producer Fiona Couper. Stereo (Rot)
with Peter Evans. Setting a bug to catch a bug - new biological pest controls. Producer Mike Bedward
An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman splosh around an Oxfordshire fen to explore life among the peat beds. Producer Sarah Blunt
Patrick Hannan and his guests return to take a sceptical look at the week's events.
Producer Richard Thomas
and Sports Round-Up
A satirical review of the week's news. Stereo
Robert Robinson invites a group of clowns to ad lib about the serious business of laughter in the circus. Producer Clare Brenner
John Miller talks to scriptwriter Larry Gelbart whose career includes writing A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, M*A*S*H, and Tootsie. Even a successful writer's lot in Hollywood is not always a happy one....
Producer Neil Trevithick. Stereo
A two-part drama based on the trial notes of the 16th-century French judge Jean De Coras.
Martin Guerre lived in the Pyrenean village of Artigat and was charged with being an impostor on his return after an absence of eight years. But the trial left many questions unanswered.
With Sean Bean as Martin Guerre and Lesley Dunlop as his wife Bertrande.
Dramatised by Guy Meredith
(Stereo)
Drama: page 4
Ian Hall is a musicologist, organist and composer whose work has been performed in many of the world's cathedrals, yet he is the most devout lover of calypso. He tells Ferdinand Dennis why, on the other hand, reggae and rap get the thumbs down.
(Stereo)
More favourite melodies presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo
led by Canon Graham James. Stereo
Every summer sharks the length of buses congregate in the seas of Britain. Most people would see this as a very good reason to stay out of the water. Not so Andy Kershaw , who pulls on his diving suit, jumps into a small boat and sets out to solve the enigma of the basking shark.
Producer Jeremy Grange. Stereo 0 NATURE: page 13
Archivist and historian
John Post delves once again into a century of improving advice mostly about sex. In the first of four programmes, Dr Post looks at contraception. Get hints from the Aborigine and learn the value of coughing. Producer Malcolm Love
Andrew Green invites the conductor Libor Pesek to choose music which reflects the character and spirit of his native country, Czechoslovakia. Stereo
The final outing for comedy and music duo Tom Miles and Rob Millner. With special guests Jim Tavare , Jonathan Cecil and Flaminia Cinque.
Producer Harry Thompson Stereo
