with Rev Michael Blood.

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.

with Dr Paula Clifford.

Five writers explore life, love and the fate of nations, taking good food as their starting point.
1: The Philosopher in the Kitchen by Brillat-Savarin. Read by Simon Callow. Abridged by Mark Lodge Producer Claire Grove

Richard Coles and Emma Freud explore the appetites and aversions of the British. Producer Lyn Hartman

Robert Powell reads the first of four episodes from the Second Book of Samuel.
Abridged by Gareth Gwyn Jones Director Niall Fraser

Introduced by Ruth Pitt.
What are the best-dressed salads wearing? In the first of a new series, Jennifer Paterson demonstrates the perfect mayonnaise.
Serial: The Caravaners by Elizabeth von Arnim, read in ten parts by Timothy Bateson. "One memorable summer the Baron and Baroness von Ottringel come to England for a caravan holiday. It is an experience they will never forget!" Abridged by Pat McLoughlin
Music: Petit's Fêtes Militaires

with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass

Chairman Robert Robinson. Fourth semi-final: Highest scoring runners up. David Clarke (accountant), Dennis Bird (retired lecturer), Kentigern Smith (English teacher), Donald Yule (corporate communications consultant).
Producer Richard Edis

with Nick Clarke.

Gulliver Foyle survives abandonment in space to create vengeful havoc...
Ivan Benbrook's play is adapted from the novel by Alfred Bester.
(Rpt)

John Miller meets Ben Pimlott , Professor of Politics and Contemporary History at Birkbeck College, London, the biographer of Hugh Dalton and Harold Wilson. Producer John Knight

Paul Vaughan talks to the composer Steve Reich about his new work The Cage and reviews the touring productions of Pericles and The Comedy of Errors.
Producer Nicki Paxman (Revised repeat at 9. 15pm;

by Michael Carson , read by John Baddeley. "I'll never forget the first time I met the actor James Millington Irwin. ..." Producer Michael Earley

with Jon Sopel and Linda Lewis.

With Humphrey Lyttelton in the chair and Willie Rushton , Barry Cryer , Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor on the floor. Colin Sell on the piano. Producer Jon Naismith

Is Tom invisible?

Annette Kobak invites six travellers to reflect on a journey.
3: Paul Theroux finds the coast of England a very foreign country. Reader Michael Fitzpatrick. Producer Kate McAll

by Ronald Frame.
In a small town in Dorset in the 1930s, a young lawyer finds himself defending the doctor's wife on a charge of scandalous behaviour.
Director Patrick Rayner

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Martin Webber

with Robin Lustig.

Nick Hornby reads the first part of his autobiographical account of his obsessive relationship with Arsenal FC. Producer Matthew Walters

Delve Special
David Lander invetigates. Studio production by Stephen Fry , with Mark Arden , Felicity Montagu and Robert Bathurst.
3: FoodFor Thought. David Lander looks at food - and an alarming new additive. Editor Paul Mayhew Archer (first broadcast in 1986)

In the third of six programmes on the legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt , Max Harrison looks at his collaborations with American jazz musicians.
Producer Derek Drescher (First broadcast on Radio 3)