Contrasting the glossy side of agriculture, as seen at the Royal Smithfield
Show, with man's efforts to keep starvation at bay in parts of the Third World. Producer Tim Finney
with James Whitboum.
with John Humphrys and Chris Lowe.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rt Rev
Vincent Nichols
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
with Bryon Butler. Producer Gill Pulsford
Presented by Bill Oddie. Producer Sara Jane Hall
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with Ned Sherrin and the likes of John Walters , Emma Freud and Arthur Smith.
Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo
with Peter Riddell , Political Editor of The Times.
Producer Dennis Sewell
with Brian Hanrahan.
Editor Anna Carragher
with Alison Mitchell.
Producer Frances Macdonald
Humphrey Lyttelton is in the chair, with Willie Rushton , Paul Merton ,
Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer. Piano: Colin Sell. Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo
Panel: David Marquand , Professor of Politics at Sheffield University; Sheila McKechnie ,
Director of Shelter; Donald Dewar MP, Shadow
Social Security Secretary; and Michael Spicer MP. From Kirkby Lonsdale , Cumbria. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producers Nick Utechin and Lucy Cacanas
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The Rector's Daughter A dramatisation by Simon Gray of the novel by F M Mayor.
With Julie Covington as Mary Jocelyn ,
Bernard Hepton as Canon Jocelyn and James Laurenson as Robert Herbert.
Mary Jocelyn lived her life caring for others, and in particular for her widowed father. But she cried out for something more, and even those close to her were surprised by the depth of her emotions.
With David Learner. Matthew Morgan. Alison Reid and Theresa Streatfeild Pianist Mary Nash
Director Jane Morgan. Stereo
As the European heads of state prepare to meet in Edinburgh,
Christopher Cook travels to the Scottish capital to recall George IV's controversial visit in 1822, discusses the Act of Union between England and Scotland, and remembers the architect Robert Adam , whose work adorns the city. Producer John Knight
Fifty years ago a team of scientists in Chicago created the chain reaction which started the development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. Peter Evans reports from a conference held last week to mark the anniversary.
Producer Deborah Cohen
with Roger Harrabin.
From the Cornish home of James Lovelock , the former space scientist, inventor of the microwave and creator of the Gaia theory.
Producer Jeffrey Olstead
with Patrick Hannan.
Producer Richard Thomas
and Sports Round-Up
Stereo
Tom Robinson presents a rough guide to manhood for the uninitiated.
Tony Sewell from The Voice newspaper delves into black male identity and encounters the Funky Dread, the Ragamuffin, the Homeboy and black Essex man complete with car phone and traditional
Conservative values - the Buppie.
Producer Chris Paling. Stereo
Helena of Clwyd
North Wales's leading theatre has recently appointed a new Artistic Director.... and she is
Polish. Will Helena Kaot
Howson lead
Theatr Clwyd into the parts of Europe that John Major only dreams about? Paul Allen investigates.
Producer Chris Eldon Lee
The Wrong Box
The first of two stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. A comedy of misunderstandings in which a stubborn corpse refuses to take it lying down.
Dramatised by Ron Butlin
Director Patrick Rayner. Stereo
Sue MacGregor meets Yve Newbold , company secretary of Hanson pic.
Stereo
Presented by Brian Kay. Producer Anthony Sellors Stereo
A reading, a hymn and a reflection led by the Rev Leslie Griffiths. Stereo
Sarah Baxter and Henry Porter share the questions on an issue designed to provoke and stimulate.
Producer Anna Parkinson
Stereo
Anais Jamgotchian talks to Ray Brown about her childhood memories of Greece.
Producer Gillian Hush
on the subject of music for the dance, with ballet conductor Barry Wordsworth and repetiteur Philip Gammon. Stereo
Simon Brett chooses diary extracts for 4 December.
There are bad times for some as Noel Coward reviews his relationship with the Inland Revenue in 1955, but better times for others - traveller
Freya Stark is blissful in Arabia in 1937, painter
Benjamin Robert Haydon is ecstatic on his wedding day in 1821, and in 1942 writer Denton Welch has a nostalgic wallow about his old school.
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