From the Oxford Union. Highlights of this week's debate on the subject of subsidies to farmers. Ivan Yates , the Irish Farm Minister, states the case for and Britain's Environment Minister
John Gummer puts the case against. Producer Steve Peacock
With James Whitbourn and guest. Producer Kathryn Blennerhassett
With Sue MacGregor and Alex Brodie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Cliff Morgan. Producer Audrey Adams
With new presenter Anne Gregg.
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Presented by Ned Sherrin. Producer Jon Rowlands
Politics around Britain. Simon Heffer asks whether government has really been reinvented in the provinces. Producer Dennis Sewell
Producer Tony Grant
With Sarah Pennells. Producer Tim Bowler
Nicholas Parsons challenges Clement Freud , Peter Jones , Paul Merton and Derek Nimmo at the Edinburgh Festival to talk for a minute without hesitation repetition or deviation. Producer Ann Jobson. Rptd Mon 6.30pm
From Bracknell, Berkshire. With Robin Cook MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary; Lady Howe, Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Council; Sir Charles Powell , former adviser to Margaret Thatcher ; and Judge Stephen Tumim , lately Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons. Repeated from yesterday
Producers Nadine Grieve and Anne Peacock LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
Adapted for radio by Gilbert Travers Thomas from the Eating Comedy screenplay by Robert Hamer and John Dighton.
With Michael Kitchen as Louis Mazzini and Harry Enfield as the D'Ascoyne family with Zulema Dene, Geoffrey Whitehead, David Timson, Jonathan Keeble, Ross Livingstone, John Hartley, Tracy Wiles, Jane Whittenshaw, Roger May, David Collings and Stephen Critchlow.
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Sir Roy Strong concludes his journey through Britain's historic towns.
Derry. An ancient maritime city clinging to the Atlantic edge of Europe.
Producer Martin Buckley. Rptd tomorrow 8.30pm
Presented by Peter Evans.
Producer Anne McNaught. Rptd Tue 8.00pm
A four-part series on the origins and the results of recent public policies. 2: The Channel Tunnel Repeated from Tuesday
In the last of his series, Joe Queenan tests the enduring American Dream fantasy that anybody can make a movie. Producer Fiona Hill
A satirical review of the week's news. Repeated from yesterday
From TV to West End musicals, a group of chorus girls make their confessions to Robert Robinson.
Producer Bruce Whitney Low. Rptd Thur 11.30pm
Le Weekend
What is the meaning of the weekday-weekend cycle? Why did we adopt a division of our lives into five days of work and two of holiday? Brian Sibley looks at the way this structure has affected the nature of leisure over the centuries. Producer Rosalind English. Rptd Fri 9.30pm
Tony Mulholland's play tells the true story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's obsession with a miscarriage of justice. Doyle assumes the mantle of his famous creation Sherlock Holmes and sets out to solve the case.
(Repeat)
Presented by Brian Kay. Producer Patrick Lambert
Led by the Rev Stephen Oliver.
Simon Armitage introduces Rita Dove , American Poet Laureate from 1993 to
1995, reading from her rich and varied output. Recorded at the Swansea Year of Literature. Producer Sally Marmion
Dominik Diamond presents a four-part beginners'guide to philosophy. 2: Descartes. With academics
Professor John Cottingham , Dr Sarah Patterson and Professor Jonathan Ree and actor Nabil Shaban. Producer Eleanor Garland Rpt
In the last of the series, Robert Hardy talks to Jeremy Nicholas. Repeated from Tuesday
By Edith Wharton , dramatised by Stanley Richardson. The last in a series of American plays. A woman's husband dies during a train journey. with Ed Peed. Margaret Anne Brady , Natalie Brown , Roberta Willison , Chris Von Bayer ,
Paula Langton , Richard McElvain and Michael Poisson. Director Eoin O'Callaghan. A
BBC/Public Media Foundation coproduction
By J X Brennan. "Eight hundred thousand pounds," Jim intoned. "Would have took me years to earn that!" he laughed. Read by Jonathan Keeble. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon Rpt
