Programme Index

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With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With the Right Rev Tom Butler.
8.40 Yesterday In Parliament

Contributors

Unknown:
John Humphrys
Unknown:
James Naughtie.
Unknown:
Tom Butler.

Nigel Colborn , John Cushnie and Bob Flowerdew answer questions posed by the staff and readers of the Evening Star newspaper in Ipswich. With chairman Eric Robson. Repeated from Sunday 2pm
FACTSHEET: send A5 sae marked 05/98 to [address removed]

Contributors

Unknown:
Nigel Colborn
Unknown:
John Cushnie
Unknown:
Bob Flowerdew
Unknown:
Eric Robson.

Peter Tinniswood's six-part gentle comedy-drama series.
Roger is a writer of children's books. His wife, Julia, is in hospital. Life is not without its complications - or its temptations. with Shirley Dixon, Stephen Thorne, Kate Binchy and Frances Jeater Producer John Tydeman

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Tinniswood
Unknown:
Shirley Dixon
Unknown:
Stephen Thome
Unknown:
Kate Binchy
Unknown:
Frances Jeater
Producer:
John Tydeman
Roger:
Keith Barron
Julia:
Liz Goulding

In a remarkable true-life rescue story of 1899, the Lynmouth lifeboat crew carry their boat over five miles by land to save a ship in distress.

Contributors

Writer:
Eric Pringle
Director:
Cherry Cookson
Reverend Hockley:
John Rowe
Billy Richards:
Tom Bevan
Innkeeper:
Hugh Dickson
[Actor]:
Chris Wright
[Actor]:
Iwan Thomas
[Actor]:
Brian Parr
[Actor]:
Stephen Thorne
[Actor]:
Gerard McDermott
[Actress]:
Alison Pettitt

Six teachers nominated by BBC Radio 4 listeners have allowed microphones into their classrooms. 5: English teacher Chris Nicholson from Bedford Modern School explores a Seamus Heaney poem with his class of 11- and 12-year-old boys. Producer John Dryden Revised repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Chris Nicholson
Unknown:
Seamus Heaney
Producer:
John Dryden

Paul Gambaccini talks to
Sigourney Weaver about her latest film, The Ice
Storm, and reviews a design exhibition derived from punk graphics. Producer Robyn Read
Revised repeat at 9.30pm

Contributors

Talks:
Paul Gambaccini
Unknown:
Sigourney Weaver

By Michael McLaverty , read by Mark Mulholland.
Steeplejack Tim Rooney realises that it will be some time before his young assistant gains the confidence to follow in his footsteps. Then something totally unexpected happens. Producer Roland Jaquarello

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael McLaverty
Read By:
Mark Mulholland.
Read By:
Steeplejack Tim Rooney
Producer:
Roland Jaquarello

Three programmes in which Vivienne Parry looks at what goes on in our brains when we are in an altered state of consciousness.
2: A Trip to Death and Back
Every day in the operating theatre, anaesthetists delicately balance the consciousness of their patients, keeping them unaware but alive. Now it seems that brainwaves are the key to turning this art into a science. Producer Sandy Raffan

Contributors

Producer:
Sandy Raffan

This celebration of the skylark in words and music takes its title from Edmund Blunden 's poem Lark
Descending. Writers featured include C Day Lewis, Hopkins, Meredith and Shelley. The music includes works by Vaughan Williams , Delius, Carmichael and Schubert. Readings are by Simon Williams and Lucy Fleming. Producer Elizabeth Funning Repeat

Contributors

Unknown:
Edmund Blunden
Unknown:
Vaughan Williams
Unknown:
Simon Williams
Unknown:
Lucy Fleming.
Producer:
Elizabeth Funning

Four programmes in which Melvyn Bragg talks to today's scientists and historians about the giants who have made scientific history.
2: Lavoisier - the Revolution Does
Not Need Chemists. Why was one of the greatest chemists of the 18th century sent to the guillotine? Producer Ruth Gardiner Repeat

Contributors

Talks:
Melvyn Bragg
Producer:
Ruth Gardiner

Dan Gaster and Paul Powell present the comedy sketch show which confronts the world's most puzzling trivia, historical curiosities and weird and wonderful people.
Written by Dan Gaster and Paul Powell Director Phil Clarke

Contributors

Unknown:
Dan Gaster
Unknown:
Paul Powell
Written By:
Dan Gaster
Written By:
Paul Powell
Director:
Phil Clarke

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