Presented by Anna Hill.
Producer George Macpherson
with James Whitbourn and his guest. Producer
Christine Morgan CEEFAX: today's prayer is on BBC2 Ceefax p740
with Anna Ford and John Humphrys.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with John Dunlop.
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with Cliff Morgan.
Producer Audrey Adams
Holiday news with Eddie Mair. Producer Jill Thomas
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Conversation and capers with Ned Sherrin and guests. Producer Jayne K Morgan
The BBC's political correspondent, Steve Richards , asks whether the rapid growth in current affairs coverage on television, radio and in the press is damaging to British political debate.
Producer David Hendy
International news and views. Producer Tony Grant
Presented by Alison Mitchell. Producer Tim Bowler
Barry Took is joined by Alan Coren , Clive Anderson , Francis Wheen and Andy Hamilton.
Producer Aled Evans. Repeated Monday 6.30pm
Repeated from yesterday
With Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producers Poppy Hughes and Nick Utechin LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
A play by Mike Dorrell. set in 1850 and based on true stories of Welsh migrants to the New World. Catherine rejects marriage in favour of religion. But when a Mormon preacher comes to her village, she is powerfully attracted to the message and the man.
Violinist lolo Jones. Director Jane Dauncey Rpt
Chris Cviic explores memories of a rich, shared past and Central
Europe's devastation by fascism, communism and two World Wars.
Prisoners of Nations. The break-up of the Habsburg empire left Central
Europe's ethnic melting pot simmering with linguistic nationalism, anti-semitism and new notions of ethnic cleansing. Producer Zareer Masani. Rptd tomorrow at 8.00pm
Highlights of this year's annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in Loughborough. With Alun Lewis.
Producer Peter Croasdale. Rptd Tuesday 8.00pm
Concluding this look at family life. 4: The Guinness Taylors. How the arrival of children changed an affair. Repeated from Tuesday
Six eminent writers reflect on the value they place on our 25p letter.
3: R S Thomas - letters and the poets. Producer Adrian Mourby
Phil Hammond and Tony Gardner end their examination of the Ages of Man. Repeated from yesterday
New York chat with Mark Steyn. Today's guests discuss the juiciest story in the USA this summer - 0 J Simpson. Producer Dymphna Flynn
Repeated on Wednesday at 11.30pm
The Last Summer: the Dymock Poets, 1914
Eighty years ago, the Gloucestershire parish of Dymock was a rural haven for writers. Edward Thomas and Robert Frost were there, Rupert Brooke visited, and his poem The Soldierfirst appeared in the journal published there by the poets Lascelles Abercrombie , Wilfrid Gibson and John Drinkwater. Sean Street visits the village that was the centre of English poetry.
Producer Julian May. Repeated Friday 9.30pm
with Alun Armstrong as Albert Parker and Gwen Taylor as Annie Parker.
The classic comedy about three couples who receive a rude shock in the midst of their joint silver wedding celebrations.
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with Brian Kay.
Producer Anthony Sellors
A hymn, a reading and a reflection, led by Fr Michael Child.
Libby Purves , Andy Hamilton , Rabbi Lionel Blue and Peter Tinniswood discuss the lighter side of history with Paul Boateng , MP. Producer Kathy Smith Rpt
Four households whose inhabitants speak with different accents.
1. Potato, Potahto. Anne Marie is a smooth Yank and Trevor is a Yorkshire bumpkin. Their daughter Wendy speaks Scottish - sort of. Producer Tessa Watt
To mark the centenary of the birth of composer Peter Warlock , Richard Baker talks to Malcolm Rudland ,
Secretary of the Warlock Society, and critic Felix Aprahamian. Repeated from Tuesday
A series of love and erotic poetry.
A Thing Going On. With readings by Adjoa Andoh , Denys Hawthorne , Pippa Hinchley , Nerys Hughes , Noreen Kershaw , Ian McKellen , Barrie Rutter , Juliet Stevenson ,
Samuel West and poets Sujata Bhatt , Gavin Ewart , Alan Jenkins , Liz Lochhead and Grace Nichols. Producer Susan Roberts
