with Rev Sue Rose.
with Sue MacGregor and Chris Lowe.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Father Oliver McTeman
A moment rummaging in the BBC Sound Archives cupboard proves that
Vanessa Feltz is still right to give this advice. Producer Louise Purslow
with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown
The third of 12 readings by Hannah Gordon from the reflections of the 14th-century mystic Julian of Norwich.
Abridged by Andrew Simpson
Producer Claire Campbell Smith
Serial: The Women in Black by Madeleine St John. Read in ten episodes by Nicolette McKenzie.
The "women in black" are assistants in Sydney's major department store in the 1950s. In one year, life changes dramatically for three of them.
Music: Peeter's Suite Modale Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman
with Vincent Duggleby.
LINES OPEN from 10.00am
with John Howard.
Ned Sherrin chairs the wide-ranging musical quiz. From the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol. Producer Gareth Edwards
with James Cox. Editor Roger Mosey
by Patricia Wood.
Three young ex-officers, survivors of the First World War, live together in an isolated cottage, looked after by two attendants who take uncommonly great care that no one comes near them. This play won the society of Authors Drama Award at the 1992 Sony Awards.
John Humphrys talks to four more people who have weathered major storms in their careers.
2: George Walker , the boxer turned businessman who took on City bankers - and lost.
Producer Alison Perks
Robert Dawson Scott talks to the viola/violin player Philip Dukes , reviews the new Dennis Potter series Lipstick on Your Collar, and looks at music guides - who buys them?
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
A Woman Without a Country by John Cheever.
"She was one of those tireless wanderers who go to bed to dream of bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches". But what was the scandal that made her leave home?
Read by William Hootkins. Producer Duncan Minshull
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.
Nicholas Parsons challenges guests Clement Freud , Paul Merton , Derek Nimmo and Peter Jones to talk for a minute without hesitation or repetition.
A sad day for William.
with Derek Cooper.
The Newsagent and the Counsellor by Don Haworth.
In a fit of anger, a normally placid newsagent throws his son's stereo through a bedroom window. He turns to a counsellor for advice, and as she unravels the story behind his outburst, she unwittingly reveals her story too. So who counsels the counsellor?
Director Kay Patrick
Four talks in which Ian Ousby traces the origins of the tourist industry.
When visiting the Continent, Victorian guidebooks recommended packing a pocket door bolt and Pratt's Patent Folding Bedstead.
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White.
with Robin Lustig.
by Jane Gardam. Read in ten episodes by Dorothy Tutin.
"Dear Joan, I think you ought to try and forget about your leg. I believe it is something psychological, and it is very hard on Charles. It is bringing both him and you into ridicule. Do make a big try. Life is a wonderful thing, Joan. I have discovered this great fact in my work with the dying. Your sincere friend, Eliza (Peabody)."
Abridged by Yvonne Antrobus Producer Philip Martin
Another in the series of adlibbed comedy shows that television couldn't resist.
This week, John Sessions, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Enn Reitel romp through a world of literary styles, TV theme tunes and film genres.
Clive Anderson does what he can in the chair.
Colin Sell at the piano
Producer Dan Patterson
(First broadcast in 1988)
