With John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Angela Tilby. Editor Jon Barton.
LETTERS: Today. PO Box 2299, London W1A 1PY. FAX: (0171) [number removed]. E-MAIL: today@bbc.co.uk
Final part.
For details see Monday
With Chris Dunkley.
Producer Anne Marie Cole. Repeated Sunday 6.15pm.
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The news of 50 years ago today.
Introduced from Swansea by Gail Foley. Plus a celebration of the violin with musician Madeleine Mitchell. Serial: One by One in the Darkness. Part 5. For details see Monday
Presented by Joanna Pinnock.
Producer Edward Odim. Repeated Sunday 8pm. WRITE TO: The Natural History Programme, BBC Bristol BS8 2LR
With Mark Whittaker.
Editor Chris Burns. PHONE: (0171) [number removed]to raise issues for investigation
Strawberries and Cream. Five hundred years after Cardinal Wolsey served the first British bowl of strawberries and cream, Derek Cooper celebrates one of the nation's favourite fruits. Producer Paul Kobrak Repeat
With Nick Clarke. Editor Kevin Marsh
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
Repeated from Sunday 2.30pm
With Laurie Taylor.
Tim Marlow looks at the some of the Royal Academy's current exhibits, and reviews Zoe Wanamaker in a version of Sophocles's Electra. Producer Mohit Bakaya
By Frances Galleymore , read by Ann Beach. Mr Andrew considered his midweek playtime to be well deserved, until guilt overwhelmed him. Producer Maud Hand Repeat
With Chris Lowe.
Editor Matthew Wells. WRITE TO: PM Letterline, BBC Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA PHONE: (0171) [number removed]
With David Stafford. Survival expert Hugh McManners climbs Pen-y-Fan in the Brecon Beacons.
Producer David Prest
Call [number removed] if you are organising a weekend event this summer
Ruth and David name their son.
Written by Chris Thompson. Director Jeremy Meadow. Editor Vanessa Whitburn. Repeated Monday 1.40pm. FAN CLUB: send sae to [address removed]
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a topical discussion in Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire, with panellists Michael Ancram MP,
Jackie Ballard MP, Peter Hain MP, and Mary Ann Sieghart of The Times. Producer Anne Peacock
Repeated tomorrow 1.10pm
Four programmes in which writers discuss discoveries made in the process of writing biography.
3: Emily Bronte. Does Wuthering
Heights reveal anything about her own experience of passion? John Florance talks to Juliet Barker , Steve Davies and Glyn Hughes.
Producer Rosie Boulton
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Rudolph Valentino
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
In the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana, remembering Rudolph Valentino, the first superstar creation lost in the dazzle of the spotlight.
Repeated Sunday 9.15am
Rocket Man and the Chipolata Fingers In the second of two programmes,
Elton John talks to Paul Gambaccini.
With enormous commercial success in the 1980s came isolation, drug addiction and eating disorders. For part 1. see Saturday 7.20pm
With Jeremy Harris and Robin Lustig. Editor Anne Koch
Cannibalism in the Cars.
Kelsey Grammer reads the last of five tales. For details see Monday
The third of four comic conferences.
Ainsley Elliot and guests chew the fat around the big table. With Griff Rhys Jones and Graeme Garden.
Producer Paul B Davies
Repeated tomorrow 6.25pm
With Patrick Hannan and guests. Producer Hilary Green
Six visionaries tell Sheena McDonald how life will be in the year 2010.
Dr Clement Bezold predicts a decline in heart disease.
By John Lanchester.
8: " there not a sense in which all honeymoons, by definition, mix business with pleasure... ?" For details see Monday
