Oliver Dowding looks into sustainable agriculture. Producer Tim Finney
with James Whitboum.
with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Umar Hegedus
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
with Cliff Morgan. Producer Nick Mullins
with Bill Oddie , including a look at the BBC Holiday Live Show in Olympia, and Susan Marling 's visit to Portofino.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Ned Sherrin and the likes of John Walters ,
Emma Freud and Arthur Smith. Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo
with Alastair Campbell ,
Political Editor of the Daily Mirror.
Producer Dennis Sewell
with Alison Mitchell. Producer Caroline Bayley
Nicholas Parsons with guests Peter Jones ,
Paul Merton , Derek Nimmo and Richard Morton.
Producer Sarah Smith.
Nick Clarke and guests Ian McAllister ,
Chairman of Ford UK; Christine Hancock ,
General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing; and George Robertson , MP, Opposition Spokesman on Europe and Edwina Currie.MP, tackle the issues raised in Castle Eden, Durham.
Producers Nick Utechin and Emma Selby. eLINES OPEN from 12.30pm
Operation Lightning Pegasus by Alick Rowe Starring Timothy West as Agamemnon, Geoffrey Bateman as Diomedes. What really happened at the Fall of Troy? Was the Episode of the Wooden
Horse as heroic as Homer would have it? Or was his Iliad a cover-up for what was a military fiasco?
Harpist Valerie Aldrich-Smith Director Shaun MacLoughlin
Stereo (First broadcast in 1981)
The fifth programme of a six-part series.
Colin Moore is an architect and one of a growing band of professionals attracted to Europe by challenging work and a change in lifestyle. Through Colin's life in Madrid, New
Europeans finds out the secret of his success and why moving there was the best decision he ever made. Presented by David Lodge. Producer Sara Jane Hall. Stereo
with Peter Evans.
Producer Deborah Cohen
If you've got 24.5 minutes to spare, join drummer and projectionist Pete Cotterill , his friends in the band, wife Lynn, a brown dog, and his drum kit "Teddy" on a night out. Producers Mel Hill and Piers Plowright. Stereo
Annette Kobak talks to six travellers.
5: One of the Netherlands' leading writers,
Cees Nooteboom , takes listeners to the Dutch mountains. Reader David Goodland. Producer Kate McAII. Stereo
and Sports Round-Up
Mark Steyn tunes in to a variety of New York radio stations, and finds the airwaves cluttered with "Shock Jocks" and "Hate Radio". With him in the BBC's studios on Fifth
Avenue are three guests who give insiders' views of the lively issues that divide and unite America. Producer Hamish Mykura
The Manner of the Word Paul Doust investigates the art of high comedy - from Shakespeare to Congreve, Wilde and Coward. It's a 300-year-old tradition that abruptly ended in theatre after the SecondWorld
War, but revivals still pull in audiences everywhere.
So why do these nuggets of verbal wit continue to appeal in today's increasingly diverse field of comedy? Producer Adrian Washbourne
The Black Birds of St Giles by Robert Birmingham. Tobias is taken by slave traders from his village in Africa and brought to
London to be a page boy to a wealthy English family. Petted, pampered and educated as a child, his life begins to change as he becomes a man.
Director Anne Edyvean. Stereo
Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Anthony Sellors. Stereo
led by Canon Graham James. Stereo
In the semi-final of the knock-out quiz,
John Humphrys fires questions at teams from the Liverpool Echo and The Scotsman.
Producers Viv Black and Nigel Acheson.
John Walters fills his idle hours by thinking out loud about MFC Sound (Me, Fish, Cat, Radio).
Producer Cathie Mahoney
with the eminent percussionist
James Blades , now in his 92nd year, who, in a long career, has played with everything from circus bands to symphony orchestras.
Another chance to hear the mould-breaking New Age comedy series providing the ultimate truth about life's big mysteries - creation, consciousness, death, monsters, love, Vikings, and Uri Geller.
Starring Richard Herring , Stewart Lee , Rebecca Front, Armando lannucci and the voice of Tom Baker. Producer Sarah Smith
