Producers Steve Peacock and Hugh O'Donnell
With James Whitbourn and his guest. Producer Norman Winter
With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Canon David Winter.
Sports news with Cliff Morgan. Producer Rob Nothman
Holiday reports from around the world, presented by Pete McCarthy. Producer Eleanor Garland
Repeated tomorrow 10.45pm
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Presented by Ned Sherrin. Producer Julian Mayers
With David Aaronovitch of The
Independent.
Editor Jane Ashley
The second of a six-part series which opens up the Americas for the British listener. For the first time in decades, Latin America is without military dictatorships, but are the colonels content? Bridget Kendall reports from Argentina. Plus, a 17th-century literary form is used to teach environmental protection in Brazil. And smoking out political correctness in New York City: the triumphal comeback of the cigar. Producer Maria Balinska
With Alison Mitchell.
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Simon Hoggart returns with the show that takes a quizzical look at the week's biggest, strangest and funniest stories. This week he is joined by regulars Alan Coren and Andy Hamilton , and guests Andrew Rawnsley and Tony Hawks.
Producer Aled Evans. Repeated Monday 6.30pm
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a topical discussion in Bonnyrigg, Midlothian. With Michael Forsyth , Alistair Darling , Sir David Steel and Dr Winnie Ewing. Repeated from yesterday
Producers Nadine Grieve and Anne Peacock
LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
By William Ingram , from the novel by Mary Fitt. Stranded in a thunderstorm, Jake doesn't expect the welcome he gets when he asks for shelter. But he doesn't expect a murder, either.
Director Alison Hindell Repeat
With Gerry Northam. Producer John Byrne
Repeated tomorrow 8.30pm
At the start of National Science Week, Peter Evans examines the science behind recent reports that the male fertility rate is dropping dramatically. Producer Paula McGrath E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk
Professor Anthony Clare asks why gloomy music is so popular. Producer Paul Kobrak Repeat
A Week in the Life. American humourist
David Sedaris reads from his diaries. Producer Steve Doherty
Repeated from yesterday
Six people explain their ideas of Utopia to Michael O'Donnell.
1: A rare interview with Ian McEwan , writer of immaculate dissections of the human psyche. Producer Chris Paling
Repeated Thursday 11.30pm
Richard Coles examines the history of the Salve Regina , one of the most beautiful plainsong antiphons, and finds out how it reflects changing attitudes to the Virgin Mary over the centuries. Producer Helen Garrison Repeated Friday 9.30pm
The news this week 50 years ago. At home, the first postwar Ideal Home
Exhibition takes place at Olympia. And residents in the village of Tichborne are pleading with the Ministry of Food to ward off an 800-year-old curse. Producer Tracey Cotton
Series editor Gaynor Vaughan Jones
By Stephen Dinsdale and Jerome Vincent. Science student
Norman Gittings invents a new colour and is besieged by fashion designers, greedy lawyers and M15, all desperate to get their hands on it. But Norman decides he will achieve recognition in his own way.
Director Anne Pivcevic Repeat
Brian Kay introduces music by Parry, Shield and Abingdon. Producer Peter Thresh
John McDade SJ presents the fifth in a special series of personal reflections for Lent.
By Richard Marsh, dramatised by Roger Danes.
Marsh's Gothic novel was first published in the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula, which it outsold six times over.
MP Paul Lessingham, a handsome man of wealth, talent and ambition, has a strange and disturbing past which threatens to destroy him.
Michael Carney introduces and reads from English Cricket by Neville Cardus , first published in 1945. Producer Louise Greenberg Repeat
By Michael Carson. Read by Eva Stuart. Repeated from Wednesday
