Presented by Richard Sanders. Producer Tim Finney
with James Whitbourn and his guest. Producer
Christine Morgan CEEFAX: today's prayer is on BBC2 Ceefax p740
with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rosemary Hartill.
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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 Laura Druce
Alastair Campbell reports on the Labour Conference in Blackpool. Producer Dennis Sewell
International news. Producer Tony Grant
Personal finance news and advice presented by Alison Mitchell. Producer Sarah Pennells
Alan Coren , Richard Ingrams , John Wells and Kate Adie join Barry Took.
Producer Aled Evans. Rptd Monday at 6.30pm
Repeated from yesterday
An opportunity for listeners to call
Jonathan Dimbleby with their views on the issues raised in this week's edition of Any Questions?
Producers Poppy Hughes and Nick Utechin LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
by Royce Ryton. Northern Italy, 1888: Queen Victoria's eldest child, Vicky, fights for her beloved husband's life - and the survival of Europe.
Director Enyd Williams Rpt
The topical history magazine returns. Roy Porter looks backwards to make sense of what is happening today.
Producer Ian Bell. Rptd tomorrow at 8.00pm
A report on the meeting in Washington held by the world's top geneticists to review the progress in the Human Genome Project - a massive international effort to map and sequence our DNA.
Producer Richard Aedy. Rptd Tuesday 8.00pm
with reporter Mark Whittaker. Repeated from Tuesday
Sue Dyson follows the career of dietary advice, from the bizarre to the dangerous by way of the revolting. The first of four programmes concentrates on constipation, mastication and the danger of beans. Producer Malcolm Love
Topical comedy.
Repeated from yesterday
Star-spangled banter from
Manhattan's Rockefeller Center with Mark Steyn and guests.
Producer Dymphna Flynn. Rptd Weds 11.30pm
The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet As the most romantic and magical play in the Shakespeare canon celebrates its 400th anniversary,
Harriett Gilbert takes to the stalls for
A Midsummer Night's Dream with directors and performers from the current crop of productions around Britain, to examine recent approaches to the tragedy, romance and magic, from landmarks set by Peter Brook to the latest success by Adrian Noble for the RSC.
Producer Louise Swan. Rptd Friday at 9.30pm
In Julia Kearsley 's play, Mari, an Estonian immigrant after the Second World War, struggles with her own sense of belonging and with the tensions within her family.
Director Matthew Walters
More favourite melodies presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Tony Sellors
Led by Father Oliver McTernan.
Nigel Rees quizzes Brian Sewell ,
Ann Leslie , John Julius Norwich and John Walters. Quotations are read by Peter Barker.
Producer Kathy Smith Rpt
Comedy writer Barry Pilton 's innocent in 1968 Paris is brought to life by Alan Cox in this eight-part adaptation.
1: A typical 60s runaway, broke, but determined not to go home.
Adapted and serialised by Colin McLaren Producer Louise Greenberg
Tracing the career of the violinist and conductor Basil Cameron.
Repeated from Tuesday
Continuing this four-part dramatisation of P D James's first novel.
3. As Dalgliesh continues his murder investigation, the evidence points to one of the family. But which one?
Dramatised by Neville Teller Director Matthew Walters Rpt
