Presented by Anna Hill. Producer Steve Peacock
With James Whitbourn and guest. Producer Kathryn Blennerhassett
With John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With David Winter.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Sports news with Cliff Morgan. Producer Audrey Adams
Presented by Sandy Gall. Producer Jill Thomas
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Presented by Ned Sherrin. Producer Torquil Macleod
With Michael White of The Guardian. Editor Jane Robins
Presented by David Walter. A report from France where the health service faces cutbacks for the first time in its history. And the former Soviet
Republic of Georgia, which has just emerged from five years of civil war, goes to the polls this weekend. Producer Lucy Ash. Editor Sian Kevill
With Alison Mitchell.
Producer Mike Johnson
Barry Took is joined for the last in the series by Alan Coren , Francis Wheen , Andy Hamilton and Jeremy Hardy. Producer Aled Evans. Rptd Mon 6.30pm
From Durham, with Ruth Deech , principal of St Anne's College, Oxford; the Rt Hon David Hunt MP; George Robertson MP, Shadow Scottish Secretary; and Arthur Scargill , President of the NUM.
Repeated from yesterday
Producers Nadine Grieve and Anne Peacock
LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
CINEMA 100
By Jack Schaefer , adapted for radio by Nick McCarty. With Howard Keel as the narrator and Stacy Keach as Shane. Shane is the archetypal western hero: the high-plains drifter. No-one knows where he came from or where he is going, but he makes the present safe. with Michael Keenan , David Graf , James Harper , David Lee Smith and Matt Nolan A Unique Broadcasting production * See This Week: page 8
William Scanlan Murphy tells the curious story of Cyril Hoskins , a Devonshire plumber who reinvented himself as a Tibetan lama. Producer Gillian Hush
Roy Porter with the third selection of topical items with a history to tell. This week, a look at the roots of British ceremonial occasions.
Producers Ian Bell and Malcolm Brammar Repeated tomorrow at 8.30pm
Presented by Peter Evans.
Producer Deborah Cohen. Rptd Tues 8.00pm
Reporter Lesley Curwen. Repeated from Tuesday
Alan Blakeman from Elsecar describes the pleasures of collecting the bottles and pots our ancestors threw away. Producer Michael Shaw Rpt
With Sally Grace , Jeffrey Holland , Toby Longworth and Ford Kiernan. Repeated from yesterday
John Peel conducts another offbeat tour of family life.
Producer Elizabeth Burke. Rptd Thurs 11.30pm ANSWERING MACHINE: (0171) [number removed]
Gulliver's Voyage to Ireland
The work of Jonathan Swift continues to grip the imagination of artists and writers 250 years after his death.
Valentine Cunningham explores the political background of the satirist and the impact of his work today.
Producer Abigail Appleton. Rptd Fri 9.30pm
By Agatha Christie.
When a child is found murdered on All-Hallows Eve, Ariadne Oliver sends for her old friend Hercule Poirot.
With Gareth Armstrong, James Taylor, Auriol Smith, Amanda Murray, Petra Davies, Paula Jacobs, Lala Lloyd, Katherine Parr, Colin Pinney, Rachel Atkins, Sam Crane, Sophia Nemeth, Vivienne Rochester, Nicholas Boulton and Peter Kenny. Dramatised by Michael Bakewell Director Enyd Williams Rpt
Presented by Brian Kay. Producer Patrick Lambert
Last of four programmes in which Philip Sheldrake explores the relationship between God and human desire.
Sue MacGregor quizzes panellists Denise Coffey , Christopher Cook ,
Philippa Gregory and Jeremy Sams , in Sutton House, Hackney. Producer Gillian Hush Rpt
Earlier in the year, Radio 4 launched a campaign to search for eight of Britain's most inspirational teachers. The first to let microphones into the classroom is history teacher Lena McMorrow, as her Upper Sixth from the all-girl St Mary's Secondary School in Londonderry tackle the 1916 Irish Easter Rising.
A Goldhawk Radio production
Richard Baker talks to soprano Penelope Price Jones and pianist Philip Martin. Repeated from Tuesday
The last part of Gary Brown 's six-part comedy series about family life stars Jim Sweeney as Phil, Caroline Quentin as Sarah and Shirley Stelfox as Fay. Past, Present and Future with Gary Brown , Tony Hawks, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Kim Barry Producer Ann Jobson Rpt
By Gillian Tindall , read by Linda Polan. Repeated from Tuesday