Producers John Harvey and Ruth Kiely
with Nia Higginbotham.
with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.
Peter Dixon presents memories of lost British places, past times and institutions. 3: National Service Producer Ronni Davis
with Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Mary Sharp
Luke. Part 8. Read by Sheila Hancock. Abridged by Hugh Hayes
Producer Michael Roberts
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Sarah Johnson reassesses the work of Edith Wharton , America's most elegant novelist. Serial: Northand South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Janet McTeer reads the last of 20 parts. Abridged by Doreen Estall. Editor Sally Feldman
with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Sarah Pennells
LINES OPEN from 10.00am
with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
Ned Sherrin picks up the baton once again to conduct contestants from the first heat to the finale of the quiz that spans the musical spectrum from Boney M to La Bohème, Producer Jo Clegg
with Nick Clarke.
by Dawn Lowe-Watson
Reedbeck Hall, once an artists' colony, is now run as a museum. One afternoon, when the Hall is closed, a young man turns up asking to be shown around. The curator, Sally, is apprehensive, but the visitor is very persuasive. Sally lives to regret her decision ...
Director Cherry Cookson
4: Adolf Hitler. John Florance meets actors Antony Sher , Alec McCowan and Derek Jacobi , who have all portrayed Adolf Hitler. They discuss what it's like to embody imaginatively one of history's most evil men.
Producer Rosie Boulton
3: Homo Acquisitus. In a land fit for the man who has everything, Armando lannucci finds the people who want more.
Producer Brian King
Natalie Wheen talks to the pianist Graham Johnson as he launches a Schumann festival. And the architect and designer Voysey is assessed in a new exhibition.
Producer Clare McGinn (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
A week of short stories that take a look at Brits overseas.
True Romance by Caroline Forbes.
"My friend Pat was in the fourth row and put both her thumbs up, so I knew he wasn't a dishrag." 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.
Nicholas Parsons challenges Clement Freud , Peter Jones , Paul Merton and Arthur Smith to talk for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Lynda's down but not beaten.
Presented by Derek Cooper. (Revised
As building begins on the dam below Maggie's hotel, she starts constructing her own project.
Bruce Bedford's new play is a modern fable about a woman who will move heaven and earth to make her greatest dream come true.
Director Hamish Wilson
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
Presented by Heather Payton.
with Alexander MacLeod.
Written and read in eight episodes by Esther Freud.
Lisa, her mother and her brother have moved to Peerless Flats in London, EC1.
Lisa is 16 and has high hopes for her first year in London.
The pain of adolescence and peer pressure is explored with great insight and humour in this, the author's second novel. Producer Tracey Neale
2: The Allotment. Britain dug for victory in 1943, but now people use their green giros to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables from supermarkets and it's a dying exception for people to grow their own on allotments. Ray Gosling visits gooseberries, raspberries and men in their shirt sleeves ...
Producer Alastair Wilson
