with Margaret Martyn.
with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
with Dr Paula Clifford.
by Lisa St Aubin de Teran, abridged and read by the author.
3: The Moving Metal and the Mobile Taps Producer Alison Hindell
with Richard Coles and Emma Freud. Producer Lyn Hartman
Robert Powell reads the first of five episodes from the First Book of Samuel. Introduced by Rev Dr Trevor Dennis. Abridged by Gareth Gwyn Jones Director Niall Fraser
with Jenni Murray. Kathleen Griffin examines the politics of matriarchy.
Serial: Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee. The seventh of 12 episodes, read by Souad Faress.
Abridged by Meg Clarke
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie
with John Howard.
Chairman Robert Robinson. Third semi-final: The North West of England, Wales and Scotland. Ann Hegerty (book editor); Bernard McGee (writer); Barry Jones (maintenance technician); Alan McLean (educational consultant).
Producer Richard Edis
with Nick Clarke.
by Mark Leech, twice winner of the Arthur Koestler Award for writing by prisoners. A thumbprint is all that stands between prison and freedom for Robert Holland , but can his barrister find an explanation that will satisfy the jury?
Director Ned Chaillet
In a series of sixprogrammes, John Miller talks to historians about their work and why they feel it is relevant to the modern world. This week he meets Lord Skidelsky, Professor of International Studies at Warwick University and the biographer of John Maynard Keynes , to discuss the most influential economist of the 20th century. Producer John Knight
Natalie Wheen visits the Prague Festival Ballet on tour and listens to Tom Paulin 's first play for radio - All the Way to the Empire Room.
Producer Paul Quinn (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
by Caroline Forbes.
"My friend Pat was in the fourth row and she put both her thumbs up, so I knew he wasn'tadishrag." But how will Stella get on with her TV quiz show partner when they win a trip to Amsterdam? Read by Siriol Jenkins . Producer Marion Nancarrow
with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.
from the Brighton Comedy Festival. With chairman Humphrey Lyttelton and Willie Rushton , Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor . Music: Colin Sell
Producer Jon Naismith
William Grundy - super sleuth!
Annette Kobak invites six travellers to reflect on a journey.
2: Dea Birkett goes to West Africa looking for a 19trhcentuiy lady traveller, and ends up as crew on a cargo boat. Reader Sally Cookson. Producer Kate McAII
by Tom Paulin. The Anglo-Irish Conference of 1921 was meant to solve the Irish problem once for all. The outcome was the partition of Ireland ...
Music composed and played by Neil Martin Director Pam Brighton
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Heather Payton.
with Robin Lustig.
Whoopi Goldberg reads Alice Walker 's 1955. A powerful story about the effect on two singers when the music industry's search for a "white man who can sing and dance like a black person" comes to an end. Read in three parts. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon
Cheers for Whoopi SEE FEATURE page 18
David Lander investigates. Studio production by Stephen Fry. Research by Tony Sarchet. 2: A Rocket for Defence
With Jack Klaff , Brenda Blethyn , Mark Arden , Harry Enfield , Felicity Montagu and Robert Bathurst
Editor Paul Mayhew Archer (First broadcast in 1986)
2: Max Harrison recalls Django Reinhardt 's first meeting with Stephane Grappelli.
Producer Derek Drescher (First broadcast on Radio 3)
