With Bill Tomkins.
With Sue MacGregor and Jeremy Harris.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Richard Harries.
By Eleanor Perenyi. 2: Compost For details see yesterday
Producer Anne Peacock
LINES OPEN from 8.00am
By Morris Gleitzman.
2: Sports day at school is not always fun. Rowena Batts is up against the 100 metres champion, and her dad starts the day by liberating a moth from the utterly respectable bosom of Mrs Cosgrove.
For details see yesterday
The actress Penny Downie talks to Wendy Austin about her role as the Syrian Queen, Zenobia.
Serial: Delicate Matters (9) For details see yesterday
Presented by Geoff Watts , and including the first of six features called Against the Odds in which
Barbara Myers talks to people who've survived life-threatening illnesses.
Producer Deborah Cohen. Rptd Sun 10.15pm
WithDaireBrehan.
Host Sophie Grigson , panellists
Clarissa Dickson Wright and Nigel Slater and special guest Darina Allen start a six-part series at Ballymaloe
Cookery School in County Cork, where they tussle with questions about butter, bok choi and squid - and whether mayonnaise really originates from County Mayo.
A Partners in Sound production
With Sheena MacDonald.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
Not content with writing 86 published novels - and stories, plays, films and articles - P G Wodehouse also wrote thousands of personal letters. These shed light on a shy and reclusive man who found it easierto express himself on the page than in person. In the first of three programmes, Simon Cadell reads a selection of letters from Wodehouse to his stepdaughter Leonora. Edited and introduced by Tony Staveacre. Producer Susan Roberts Rpt
Paul Gambaccini invites leading musical personalities from different disciplines to talk about their most passionate pieces on record. With Diana Burrell , Phil Pope and Tom Robinson. A Unique Broadcasting production Repeated Saturday at 11.00pm
With Russell Davies.
Editor Sharon Banoff
PHONE/ANSWERPHONE: (0171) [number removed]E-MAIL: Afternoon.Shift@bbc.co.uk
Gill Pyrah discusses the art of the short story and uncovers intrigue in Native Speaker, a new detective story. Producer Robyn Read. Rvsd rpt 9.30pm
By Ronald Frame. "I've signed the hotel's register, quite truthfully, It's there for all to see, clear as day, but who knows where to find me?"
Read by Jilly Bond.
Producer Pam Fraser Solomon
With Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.
The last episode of Christopher Fitz -Simon's comedy drama set in Ballylenon, Co Donegal, in 1954. Having "overheard" that the Rev Hawthorne is leaving Ballylenon for a larger congregation, telephone operator Vera McConkey loses no time in communicating the good news to the local newspaper, The Vindicator. with Charlie Bonnar and Ciara McKeown
Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes. Director Eoin O'Callaghan
It's just not cricket.
Repeated tomorrow at 1.40pm
Julian O'Halloran reports in the last of the series.
Producer Lynne Jones. Rptd Saturday 5.00pm
Repeated from Saturday 4.30pm
Tony Wilkinson presents a week in the life of six streets in Britain.
5: Caernarfon Road, Uanaelhaearn.
Tony Wilkinson visits a North Wales village on the Welsh-speaking Lleyn peninsula. Nationalist slogans were daubed on the walls of the village pub when an Englishman and his wife took over a year ago. But the birth of their twin baby boys sees the villagers rallying to welcome the new arrivals. A Tony Wilkinson production
Presented by Peter White. Producer Dave Harvey
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: phone (0171) [number removed]between 9.30pm and 10.30pm FACTSHEET: send large sae to [address removed]
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
With Isabel Hilton.
By Brenda Chamberlain. Part 4. For details see yesterday
Repeated from Sunday 11.15am
Last of the series in which Christina
Dodwell travels to the heart of the mysterious island of Madagascar. A River Ride to the Fossil Forest
Christina paddles her own (leaking) canoe, meets an invisible man, flees a forest fire and discovers trees of stone.
Producer Simon Elmes Rpt
