with Rev Dr David Owen.
with James Naughtie , John Humphrys. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with David Stone
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Michael Buerk chairs a live investigation into the moral questions behind the week's news. Witnesses are cross-examined by Janet Daley ,
Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Edward Pearce and Dr David Starkey.
Producer David Coomes
Stories from the Hindu tradition.
4: Exile to the Forest For details see Monday
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Serial: A Temporary Affair (3) For details see Tuesday
Producer Tony Grant
withTasneemSiddiqi.
Rail strikes were paralysing the country, a royal couple were having marital problems, an ex-Tory Party chairman denied insider dealing.... What was the Year in Question? Brian Hayes hosts high noon with the hacks in the second heat of the knockout quiz. This week Radio 5 Live Midday with Mair play Reuters Radio News A Testbed production
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
An interpretation of the causes and the consequences of the most famous cavalry charge in history by KingsleyAmis.
The Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimea in 1854 has been glorified as one of the greatest acts of military courage in British history. But why did our high command willingly sacrifice over 400 of our finest men?
Director Shaun MacLoughlin
with Gerry Anderson.
Paul Allen reports on a new production of Pinter's play
Landscape, plus Calamity Jane at the Haymarket Theatre in Leicester. producer Will Cantopher. Revised rpt 9.30pm
by T J Davies, read by Laurence Allan. "Every surface was covered - precarious pagodas everywhere." He'd wanted to save the rainforests - now he was drowning in a sea of papers. Producer Caroline Sarll
with Linda Lewis and Hugh Sykes.
More family fun with supervarmint Harry Hill and the gang. With special guest Rolf Harris.
A Friend in need is a friend in deed. Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm
The first of four one-pair-of-eyes documentaries taking a sidelong look at an issue not far behind the headlines. 1. Facades. "Does 'local' have a meaning any more/When all our towns are chained to the chainstore ...?"
The poet Nigel Forde ponders, in verse, the changing face of British towns as high streets throughout the country grow ever more to resemble one another. Producer Simon Elmes
Go Home Mickey Mouse
Europeans watch more films made in America than at home, see more
American television than they import from their neighbours, and listen mainly to American pop music.
Francis Cairncross asks whether these imports threaten Europe's culture and the development of a home-grown entertainment industry. If so, what can governments do?
Producer Dennis Sewell. Rptd Sunday 4.15pm
Presented by Michael Oliver.
2: Robert Schumann. "He is in agony. Every sound he hears turns to music ... It utterly exhausts him" -
Clara Schumann , 1854. With Dr John O'Shea , Steven Isserlis and Paul Robertson. Producer Susan Kenyon
Presented by Judy Graham.
Producer Marlene Pease. PHONE: [number removed]Monday-Friday 10.00arrv5.00pm
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
with Robin Lustig.
by Angela Carter. 9: Fewers fears her reporter was a beautiful illusion. For details see Monday
What does Facade -An Entertainment, a collaboration between composer
William Walton and poet Edith Sitwell , have in common with two groups of schoolchildren in Cambridgeshire?
Simon Armitage follows the progress of Façade for the Nineties, a composition of words and music by composers Glyn Evans and Simon Bainbridge , poet Mick Gowarand young writers and musicians. Producer Sally Marmion
