Presented by Anna Hill. Producer Richard Sanders
with James Whitbourn and his guest. Producer Christine Morgan
with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with John Newbury.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
with Cliff Morgan. Producer Cathy Huyton
Holiday news with Eddie Mair. Producer Jill Thomas
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with Ned Sherrin and guests. Producer Jayne K Morgan
Presented by Michael White. Producer Jonathan Brunert
Producer Tony Grant
Presented by Alison Mitchell. Producer Tim Fawcett
Join chairman Nicholas Parsons and guests Peter Jones , Paul Merton , Kit Hesketh-Harvey and Jenny Eclair at the Lawn, Lincoln, as they try to talk for a minute without hesitation or deviation. Producer Ann Jobson. Rptd Monday 6.30pm
with Hilary Armstrong MP, Rt Hon Ian Lang MP, Brenda Maddox , journalist; and Mark Seddon , Editor, Tribune. Repeated from yesterday
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Producers Poppy Hughes and Nick Utechin LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
Georgette Heyer's Regency romance begins a season of love affairs on Radio 4.
"I'm going back to London! And I'm going to marry the first woman I see!" is the cry of young Lord Sheringham when his proposal of marriage is rejected by Isabella, the Incomparable. True to his word, he takes the even younger Hero Wantage as his bride.
Roy Porter 's topical history magazine. Producer Ian Bell. Rptd tomorrow at 8.30pm
Presented by Peter Evans.
Producer Anne McNaught. Rptd Tue 8.00pm
Reporter Gerry Northam. Repeated from Tuesday
A four-part series in which writer and broadcaster John Kelly takes a wry look at life in his native Northern Ireland.
2: Devils and Angels. Experience of life at a single-sex Catholic grammar school in Enniskillen, with inklings of a tempting world beyond. Producer Owen McFadden
Repeated from yesterday
Why give up a good salary and a company car to work seven days a week? Robert Robinson quizzes those who have taken on village shops and post offices in the West Country.
Producer Penelope Gibbs. Rptd Thur 11.30pm
A Burning Sound: the Poetry of David Gasgoyne
When he was 16 in 1932, Gasgoyne published his first book of poems; a year later his novel appeared, and in 1935 his book on surrealism. He moved to Paris where he was friends with Salvador Dali , Andre Breton , Max Ernst and Paul Eluard. He became highly regarded as a translator, and wrote Night Thoughts, one of the great radio poems of the 1950s. He is still writing, and has just published his Selected Poems and Selected
Verse Translations. He talks to Sean Street about his work and life.
Producer Julian May. Rptd Friday at 9.30pm
John Rooney 's new play explores the extraordinary love that the Irish poet W B Yeats felt for Maud Gonne - over a period of 28 years he proposed to her continually. She always refused and he continued to dedicate to her some of the best-loved poetry ever written.
Music composed by Neil Martin , who plays piano and cello, with Paul Schumann on clarinet. Director Pam Brighton
Presented by Brian Kay. Producer Anthony Sellors
Led by Dr Susan White. Producer Kathryn Pritchard
Frank Delaney presents the programme about language.
4: Your Big Mouth. How do your tongue, teeth, lips and lungs ever get it together to produce a string of words? Producer Tessa Watt Rpt
Hermione Lee asks six well-known women writers to look back at an early work and talk about how their writing has developed and changed since then. 3: Doris Lessing on The Grass Is Singing Producer Erin Riley
Lynne Walker talks to the dancer, director and choreographer
Wayne Sleep , about life in the world of dance. Repeated from Tuesday
Tony Bagley 's comedy drama starring Martin Clunes as Roy and Geraldine James as Jane.
Roy Hitchcock has surprisingly managed to interest television in his video diary. Should he now become celibate in order to be an artist of integrity?
Music by Julian Wastall
Producer Paul Schlesinger Rpt
