Listings
: Today
with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Canon Paul Bates
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament
8.50 Listeners' Letters
Contributors
: News
: Midweek
with Libby PurvesProducer Mary Sharp. Stereo
Contributors
: Gardeners' Question Time
(Broadcast Sunday at 2.00pm): Morning Story
ShoeReader Shelley Thompson. Written by Heidi Jon Schmidt.
Producer Matthew Walters
Contributors
: Daily Service
Forgive Our Sins As We Forgive (St Etheldreda, BP 20); Luke 7, vv 37-50; Anthem: Drop, Drop, Slow Tears (W Walton); Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Repton, BBC HB 351). With the BBC Singers(Stereo)
: With Great Pleasure
In 1988 Jeremy Isaacs took on the job of running the Royal Opera House, a position of international prestige and influence. However, his selection of poetry and prose reveals his deep love for his nativeScotland, in particular the works of Robert Louis Stevenson.
Readers John Betts and Geraldine McEwan. Producer Alec Reid. Stereo
Contributors
: Going Underground
Four programmes focusing on people who thrive on the subterranean lifestyle. 3: Andre and Eileen Heigel are the proud owners of a unique temple of pagan worship. Mark Burman goes underground to visit the Shell Grotto of Margate. Producer Mohini PatelContributors
: Winston Comes to Town
Peter Tinniswood 's six-part series.4: Repeat After Me
In which William makes a fortune writing mucky books under the nom de plume 'Gerda Fortnoy ', and decides to bung Father into an old folks' home.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin Stereo (R)
Contributors
: Listening Corner
Gregory Googly Has an Adventure. Stereo (R): Woman's Hour
'There's hell, there's darkness, there's the sulphurous pit, burning, scalding, stench, consumption.' King Lear rages while his wicked daughters are reviled as lecherous hags. With three major productions running this summer,Margaret Horsfield looks at the links between sexual revulsion, madness and tragedy in King Lear. Presenter Jenni Murray. Serial: Love Among the Single Classes (the final part)
Contributors
: Tomorrow's Gain
Frank desperately wants his son to be a tennis champion, but to the boy it's just a game. Written by Chris Whitehorn.Director Alfred Bradley. Stereo
Contributors
: Time for Verse
The second of five conversations in which the poet Adrian Henri is interviewed about his life and work by Carol Ann Duffy.Reader Neville Smith. Producer Alec Reid
Contributors
: News
: Kaleidoscope Extra
Home Boys and Fly Girls Yo, this programme is really chillin'Rap music's on Kaleidoscope's billin'
So if you're confused
'bout words that fuse
Tune your box
To the programme that rocks
You bet we know what time it is.
Presenter Charlotte Greig. Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo
Contributors
: PM
with Frances Coverdale and Hugh SykesContributors
: Six O'Clock News
and Financial Report: Brain of Britain 1990
Stereo: News
: The Radio 4 Debate
In the second of three programmes,Brian Redhead chairs a debate from Leyhill Open Prison in Gloucestershire where prisoners, staff, prison reformers and the minister responsible for prisons consider the proposition that:
'Our present prison system cannot rehabilitate offenders.' Proposing: Vivien Stern (Director of the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders) and Professor Rod Morgan (Professor of Criminal
Justice, Bristol University).
Opposing: David Mellor , QC, MP (Minister of State at the Home Office) and Ian Dunbar
(Director of HM Prisons, South West Region). Producer Margaret Hill (R)
Contributors
: Kaleidoscope
Actor Simon Russell-Beale is Edward II at Stratford; American Ballet Theatre hoe-downs at the Coliseum; and dramatist Don Taylor considers the television play.Presenter Nigel Andrews. Producer Belinda Sample. Stereo
Contributors
: A Book at Bedtime
The View from the GroundMartha Gellhorn 's account of her six decades as a foreign correspondent.
Read in eight parts by Liza Ross.
1: Justice at Night Mississippi, 1936.
A white woman raped and a negro lynched ... Abridged by Brian Miller
Producer Sue Wilson. Stereo
Contributors
: Magic Moments
The first of five ! programmes in whichNigel Fountain marks the moments when aspects of life today first came into being.
Such a Jolly Lot!
British TV soap opera began with the Grove Family in 1954. They were a far cry from the Ewings of today - plots involved them fitting security locks to windows and buying Grandma a new wheelchair.
The programme charts the progress of TV's ratings-grabbers through its actors, archives, producers and critics. Producer Wendy Pilmer
Contributors
: Open University
11.30 Living with Technology11.50 Arts: Culture and Belief in Europe
: News
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