with Dr Malcolm Norris.
with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rt Rev
Jim Thompson
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
with Libby Purves and birthday guest Lucinda Lambton. Producer Lucy Cacanas
An Anthology of Spiritual Verse
A selection of poetry on nuns. Readers
Brid Brennan and Alison Reid.
with Jenni Murray.
Jackie Rowland reports from the Western Sahara on the women who run refugee camps while their men wage one of the longest-running wars in Africa.
Serial: The Ex-Wives(7)
With Linda Lewis.
by Edith Wharton. Fifth of six parts.
With Andrew Wincott as Newland Archer ,
Suzanne Bertish as Ellen Olenska and Cathryn Harrison as May Welland.
The reality of "we're together only so long as we're apart" sinks in tor Newland and Ellen.
Dramatised by Christopher Reason Director David Hunter
with James Naughtie.
by Jonathan Smith.
3: A Political Animal One of Patrick's most valued members of staff is having an affair which is well documented by both his colleagues and pupils. Patrick's relationship with his attractive publisher remains secret but his conflict with his deputy is coming to a head.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin
Alun Lewis loosens the nuts and bolts of today's technology.
Producer Peter Croasdale
Mark Steyn 's studio guest is Michael Tolkin , who wrote The Player, and has now written a novel. Also, reviews of the week's big screen releases Indecent Proposal and Wild West. Producer Beaty Rubens
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
by Parina Stiakaki.
A young waitress working in a restaurant has to get used to her boss. Does his friendliness have an ulterior motive?
Read by Souad Faress . Producer Jocelyn Boxall
with Wendy Austin and Chris Lowe.
Lynda pleads innocence.
John Waite returns with a new series in which he and his team of investigators peer under official carpets, behind company smoke screens and through bureaucratic red tape on the trail of your complaints. The programme sets out to pursue not only individual allegations of injustice, sharp practice and the abuse of authority, but also wider issues as a result of which lives may be damaged by the actions, or complacency, of others.
Editor Graham Ellis
0 Write to: Face the Facts, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA.
Presented by Peter France. 5: "Your excellencies, my lords, ladies and gentlemen": Democracy celebrated
Two thousand five hundred years ago, the small Greek city-state of Athens invented a new form of political regime, whose name stands virtually unchallenged today - but what did the Ancient Greeks mean by democracy?
Producer Kate McAII
0 RADIO TIMES GREEK AS A
TREAT CRUISE: for details, see page
The world is getting wired: for sound, for pictures and for data. Add satellite to cable and we are on the brink of a dazzling information boom. From the USA,
Peter Day reports on how the communications explosion will change the way business reaches people - and how people reach business.
Editor Stephen Chilcott
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White.
Day Trips to the Desert. Episode3.
Simon Brett with some May 7 diaries: John Evelyn is keeping up with the latest in scientific experiments in 1662; Joan Wyndham feels a tingle of excitement when the doorbell rings in wartime London; and in 1926 the BBC is in an "awkward position" over the General Strike.
