Producers Richard Sanders and John Harvey
with Rev Michael Blood.
with Peter Hobday.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.
Professor Theo Barker recalls how people in Britain lived through the Depression of the 1920s and 1930s.
1: Home After the War Producer Daniel Snowman
with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown
An Anthology of Spiritual Verse
A selection of poetry on the theme of childhood. Read by Barbara Leigh -Hunt and David Rintoul. producer Jocelyn Boxall
Introduced by Anna Ford. Serial: The Ex-Wives by Deborah Moggach.
Fifth of 14 parts read by Ronald Pickup .
Abridged by Pat McLoughlin
Music: McLaughlin's Duos for Guitar and Piano
with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Virginia Eastman
0 Lines open from 10.00am
with John Howard.
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson.
First Round - Home
Counties. Peter Watson (retired journalist); Geoff Colton (retired computer systems designer);
Andrew Watts (self-employed potter);
David Clarke (self-employed accountant).
Producer Richard Edis
with James Naughtie.
Arthur Miller 's powerful study of anti-semitism in New York in the early 1940s.
Dramatised by Wally K Daly Director Martin Jenkins
Robert Dawson Scott reports on a festival of new music in Glasgow, reviews Tom McGrath 's play about boxing in Edinburgh, and gathers predictions about the next classical chart-topper to replace Gorecki.
Producer John Goudie
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
The Grand Council by Nico Orengo.
They have just married. But she refuses to leave her ship moored off the coast of Monaco, and he won't come out from his castle. So, wily old Tristo Biamonti is ordered to negotiate.
Read by Hugh Dickson. Translated by Stuart Hood Producer Duncan Minshull
with Wendy Austin and Chris Lowe.
Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren and their guests.
An alarming moment for Jack.
with Derek Cooper.
Grandma and Mrs Chaterjee starring Julie Christie as the Goddess.
In Kitty Fitzgerald's play, Mira and Kathleen are not the kind of 70-year-olds to sit back and watch their world collapse.
Instead, they intervene to bring back the Goddess Culture through the medium of the radio.
Director Kate Rowland
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Sue MacGregor goes to Dean Clough , Halifax, to meet Ernest Hall and talk about his life and dual career as property developer and concert pianist.
Producer Gillian Hush
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White.
Day Trips to the Desert by Geoff Nicholson.
"When Tessa told me she didn't want to be married to me any more, I did three things, none of them too bright. I immediately moved to London, placed an ad in the lonely hearts column of Time Out and decided to spend some time in the desert."
Read in five parts by Bill Nighy.
Abridged by David Marshall Producer Richard Wortley
More comedy TV couldn't resist - six episodes of the show that became KYTV: Radio Active
With Angus Deayton , Helen Atkinson Wood ,
Michael Fenton-Stevens , Geoffrey Perkins and Philip Pope.
1: The history of Radio Active, originally broadcast as part of the first series in 1982. Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins.
Producer Jimmy Mulville
