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TO Si 90.2-92.4 MHz 10.0 (FM) News; The Grantham Connection Nicholas Parsons returns to the town where he was bom and examines the unexpected links between himself and Lady Thatcher. 1O0 (LW) News; Daily Service 10.15 aW) The Prophet Art Malik read from the work of poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran. (47) 1O30 Woman's Hour Introduced by Jenni Murray. 11.30 Medicine Now Geoff Watts reports on the health of merjcal care. 120 News; You And Yours 12.25 The Board Game Light-hearted business panel game with guests Peter Day, Alastair Ross Goobey, Janette Rutterford and Nigel Whittaker.

Chaired by ffigel Cassidy. 1255 Weather 1.0 The Work) At One 10 The Archers 1.55 Shipping Forecast 2.0 News; Thirty Minute Theatre: All Loire And Ghost Trains Stephen Butchard's drama concerns a married couple, Frank and Alice, who inhabit separate worlds. Neither one can forget what happened on the ghost With Michael Angelis and Noreen Kershaw. 230 The Tingle Factor Lord Menuhin talks to Jeremy Nicholas about those musical moments which send a shiver down his spine. Last in the Billy Connolly's World Tour Of Scotland 10.25pm, BBC1 Homecoming trek for the LA-squatting comedian, whose career out west is floundering fast.

(And if anybody else was unlucky enough to catch Man Trouble, you'll know all about it.) Connolly kicks off his oh-so-facetious enterprise with a visit to a folk-fest in Arranj which he apparently gets along to on a regular basis. Nothing disguises his affection for the people and the land of his birth; nor the fact that what comic ability he possessed is rapidly becoming exhausted. (AP) 3133 Dangerous Moonlight (Brian Desmond Hurst, 1941) 10.30am, BBC2 A real fuss-maker in its time, this wartime romance will no doubt now look pure mush, but there's lasting power in Anton Walbrook's angst playing of the Polish exile having to choose between his concert piano and a Battle of Britain cockpit. With Sally Gray and that heart-tugging Warsaw Concerto of Richard AddinseU's. (MS) tant Tom Carey's big-bucks experimental Parkinson's Disease treatment.

Medics' view of hospital life may be a tad sedate for fans of a certain ambulance-chasing counterpart, but at least it doesn't attempt to make some point about homelessness every week. (RJ) Chandler And Co 9.30pm, BBC1 Starring alongside James Bolam in the two Biederbecke series, Barbara Flynn was approximately perfect. The very model of a cool, sexy, quirky, mature Yorkshirewoman, she can take much responsibility for the series' frequent repeats. A little older, her estimable talents have been deposited in a series about two women detectives working the divorce industry. Despite being called Dee let's hope Flynn can elevate her latter-day Bedroom Dick above expectations.

(SK) Floyd On Italy 8.30pm, BBC2 On the first leg of his guzzle around Italy, Keith Floyd visits the Liguria and Piedmont areas. He drinks their wine, bravely cooks a local dish in the middle of Vemazza's packed town square, goes sniffing for truffles, boils-up half an abattoir, and says "really" far more than should be allowed. No Chianti pizza this week, but there's time. (RJ) Medics 9pm, nv Back for a second series, this medical drama finds Professor Hoyt (Tom Baker) returning to Henry Park Hospital after recovering from a car accident. His timetable of two routine operations (a twisted hernia and a masectomy to you and me) is soon enlivened by a woman patient's baemorrhaging stomach ulcer, which may have been caused by consul Sacrificial In a week of 2,000 Neighbours and 1 ,000 EastEnders, Guy Daks calculates the survival rate of soap stars 630 Open University Sermons: The Oral Tradition.

Weather 7 J0 On Air From Birmingham with Andrew McGregor and Catriona Young. 7.05 Ravel: Fanfare (L'Eventail de Jean) (CBSORattfe). 7.1 0 Telemann: Oboe d'amore Concerto In (Paul Goodwin, oboe, The King's ConsortKing). 7.45 Mozart: Divertimento in 0 (K136) (ASMFMarriner). 8.05 Bach: Two-part Inventions Nos 5-7 (BWV 776-8) (Ton Koopman, harpsichord).

8.32 Bartotc Allegro motto capriccioso (String Quartet No 2) (New Budapest Quartet). 8.40 Haydn: Symphony No 70 in 0 (CBSORattfe). O0 Composers Of The Week: Glinka And Balakirev Presented by Stephen Johnson. Glinka: Kamariskaya (USSR Academic Symphony OrchestraSvetJanov). Balakirev: Symphony No 1 in (Royal Philharmonic OrchestraBeecham).

1 00 Musical Encounters From Cardiff with Nicola Heywood Thomas. Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No 3 (Leslie Howard, piano). 1 0.05 Mendelssohn: I would that my love (Isobel Bale, soprano, Kathleen Ferrier, contralto, Gerald Moore, piano). 1 0.1 0 Mahler: Todtenfeier (BBC National Orchestra of WalesBarshai). 1 1 .1 0 Tartini: Sonata in minor (Devil's Trill) fjtzhak Pertman, violin, Guggenheim Goodman, piano).

1 1 .25 Schubert: Szene aus Faust (D126b) (Janet Baker, mezzo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone, Gerald Moore, piano). 1 1 .30 Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini (BBC National Orchestra of WalesBarshai). 120 Mask: Restored Helen Garrison introduces highlights from a concert of chansons by Josquin and Lassus given in the Wigmore Han, London, by the celebrated French group, Ensemble Clement Janequin. 1j0 News; Mozart And Britten Loma Anderson (soprano), Joan Rodgers (soprano), Ameral Gunson (mezzo), Adrian Thompson (tenor), Robert Hayward (bass), Joanna MacGregor (piano), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony OrchestraJane Glover. Britten: Young Apollo.

Mozart Utaniae (K243). Mozart Concert aria "ChTo me score? di te" (K505). Britten: Cantata Academ lea. 230 Baca And Forwards Sylvia Rosenberg (violin), Caroline Palmer (piano). Bach: Sonata in minor (BWV 1014).

Schubert: Sonata in A (D574). Stravinsky: Suite italienne. The BBC Orcfcestras BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by En Shao, Philip Martin (piano). Sigurbjomsson: Orchestra Trolls. Hindemith: Symphony: Mathis der Mater.

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 in minor. SJ0 Tee Hosic Machine Jo Whiley, at the Bradford Festival, meets the young pianist Nikola Kodjabahia, who hails from Bradford's twin town, Skopje in Macedonia. 5.15 la Tune With Rodney Stafford. Biber: Biblical Sonata No 1 6.09 Strauss: Divertimento, Op 86. 7.23 Brahms: Abendied, Op 92 No 3.

730 Moscow Soloists Directed by Yuri Bashmet (viola). Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in flat (BWV 1 051). Stravinsky: ApoUon musagete. Britten: Lachrymae. Tchaikovsky.

Serenade for Strings. 025 My-Fl Edward Greenfield on how the acquisition of audio equipment has altered his appreciation of listening to music at home. 0.30 Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Colin Parr (clarinet), Taverner ConsortAndrew Parrott. Ockeghem, air Birtwistle: Ut heremita solus. Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame.

Cage: Sonata for solo clarinet. Machaut, arr Birtwistle: Hoquetus David. Geoff Poole: The Magnification of the Virgin. Stravinsky: Mass. 1045 Night Waves Staged battle between a "reactionary old misogynist'' (Tony Palmer) and a "fiery feminist" (Kate riges, whose book Because Of Her Sex argues that discrimination against women is getting worse).

Plus music from bright young traditional fiddlers, Biza Carthy and Nancy Kerr. 11,30 The BBC Orchestras BBC National Orchestra of WalesTadaaki Otaka. Britten: Courtly Dances (Gloriana). Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor (Scottish), 1230 Close 92.4-94.6MHr, 198kHz (151 4m) 535 Snipping Forecast O0 News Briefing; Weather B.10 Farming Today Prayer For The Day O30 Today 058 Weather O0 News 9j05 CaB Debbie Thrower 071 -580 4444. 3J0 News; Anderson Country With Daire Brehan.

44) News 445 Kaleidoscope GiD Pyrah talks to author Rose Tremain and considers her new collection of short stories. Pius cellist Robert Cohen in the studio. 445 Snort Story: Two Words By Isabel Allende. 54) PM O50 Shipping Forecast 5JSS Weather OOSix O'clock News O30 Jane And Prudence By Barbara Pym Prudence is prey to Increasing feelings of isolation and begins to look at Fabian Driver with greater interest. With Penelope Wilton and Rebecca Front (W 7 J) News 7.05 The Archers 7.20 Rle On 4 Major issues, changing attitudes and Important events at home and abroad Reporter Joryon Jenkins.

BJO Science Now Weekly review of scientific developments. The Network With computer companies developing unbreakable codes which wil allow their users to communicate without fear of interception by government (or anyone else, for that matter), Alun Lewis examines the surprising reaction of the US gwernment to a network moving beyond its control. OO In Touch Ivlagazira for px)lev a visual handicap. 9 Kaleidoscope 938 Weather 1O0 The World Tonight 1045 Book At Bedtime: House Of SpBewfld Isolation By Edna O'Brien. (71 0) 11 JO Medtonmave An exploration of the week's events inthemecSa.

11 JO (LW) Today la Parliament 11 JO (FM) Itchy Feet Rory Maclean with more footsore tales from the world's peripatetic population. 120 News; weather, 1233 Shipping Forecast 1243 (FM) Close; (LW) As World Service 693.909kHz 8.0 The Breakfast Programme 035 The Magazine 120 Midday with Mair 2JK Ruscoe on Five 4.0 John Inverdale Nationwide 7 J) News Extra 7.35 Inside Edge 035 A Game of Two Halves 10-05 News Talk 1 1 JO Night Extra 1 205 After Hours 20 Up AB Night SJO Morning Reports 100-1 02MHz Nick Bailey 00 Henry Kelly 1 20 Susannah Simons 20 Lunchtfme Concerto. Brahms: Double Concerto In A minor. 3J0 Petroc Trelawny 00 Classic Reports 7 J) The Classic Opera Guide BJO Evening Concert. Strauss: At the Hum Berlioz: Royal Hunt and Storm fjLes Troyens).

Schumann: Waldszenen. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 18 In flat Uzst 6 PaganW Etudes. Mozart: Strtng Quartet Robert Booth Hams publawy. Check that contract: David Roper who plays Geoff Barnes, Michelle Fowler's lecturerlecher; with so much time behind closed doors, he may find his stamina and ticker severely tested. Fatal Attraction: EMMERDALE Body count: 24 deaths in 1,882 episodes Stiff-to-show ratio: One in every 78.41 episodes Texas Chain-soap: Unscrupulous businessman Dennis Bigg's plans to turn Emmerdale into a quarry suffered a crushing defeat.

His late-night trespassing ended fatally in an encounter with the bulky frame of Joe Sugden's prize bull. Would you believe: In January this year, a jumbo jet crashed on the Yorkshire Dales. Becktndale was briefly transformed into Arthur Clarke's mysterious world: Archie Brooks evaporated (not even leaving his boots); Elizabeth Pollard died in suspicious circumstances; Leonard Kempinsky was killed when he swerved to avoid a falling wing; Mark Hughes was engulfed by a fireball while returning a vacuum cleaner. Check that contract: Take your pick; Phil Redmond's seemingly random culling could turn Beckindale into a ghost town. Fatal Attraction: NEIGHBOURS Body Count: Five in 2,000 episodes (including one dog) Stiff-to-show ratio: One in every 400 episodes.

Texas Chain-soap: While in the bush protesting the hunting of birds, young mother and erstwhile flower-child Kerry Mangel is "accidentally" shot dead. Subsequent "grief shots" of husband Joe and son Toby inflicted yet more carnage on innocent viewers. Would you believe: While on his honeymoon, tubby health freak and heart attack survivor Harold Bishop was swept off a rock never to be seen again. Check that contract: Ian Smith, who played Harold Bishop. Just because he's missing-presumed-drowned doesn't mean that Reg Grundy's talent scouts might not visit again.

Fatal Attraction: nurses, one of whom, Kate Moses, took a bullet before the unwanted guest turned the gun on himself. Would you believe: On the way to his own wedding reception, friendly trucker Frank Rogers took the full force of Jimmy CorkhiU's coke-fuelled driving. Teenage passenger Tony Dixon bought it after a suitably prolonged coma. Check that contract: Lee Hartney, the Close's Koresh-style cultist "Creepy" Simon Howe. A collision with gun-toting killer Barry Grant is on the cards.

Fatal Attraction: CORONATION STREET Body count: 37 (on-screen) deaths in 3,720 episodes Stiff-to-show ratio: One in every 100.54 episodes Texas Chain-soap: Sporting a nylon house coat and surrounded by soft-furnishings untouched by British kite marks, Valerie Barlow started up enough electrical appliances to dim Blackpool illuminations. An all-consuming electrical fire ensued. Would you believe: After almost killinglove interest Rita Fairclough, Alan Bradley went on the run. He was shortly captured, tried, found guilty, but released. He then tormented Rita, who went into hiding and was believed dead.

Naturally, Bradley was the prime suspect in the "murder" inquiry. Bet Gilroy eventually tracked Rita down to Blackpool, where she had lost her mind and was living 1 5 years in the past Bradley went in pursuit. He was struck dead by an ornamental tram. Check that contract: Simon Greg-son, who plays youthful playboy Steve McDonald. His gambling and live-now-pay-later attitude may not pay off.

Fatal Attraction: EASTENDERS Body count: 12 deaths in 998 episodes Stiff -to-show ratio: One in every 83. 16 episodes Texas Chain-soap: A tricky one: Eddie Royal catching a shiv in the heart; Andy O'Brien going head-on with a lorry while attempting to rescue a child; or Gill Fowler's harrowing and suitably prolonged Aids-related cancer. Would you believe: Queen Vic potman Tom Clements found dead in the Dermis Rigg gas on the wrong side of Joe Sugden's prise bull Stabbings, road accidents, testy farmyard animals, plane crashes, underworld shootings, and hearties galore. the life of a soap actor is a fraught one. Apart from the stress of more emotional upheavalsrandom acts of violence in one week than most of us experience in a lifetime, there's the ever-present threat of the kill-off.

Those joining the cast of any soap do so in the knowledge that, come a sag in the ratings, they could be first to slip into a coma never to wake up. Watch Neighbours' 2000th episode this week, and you may notice that only one of the original cast remains the Methuselah of Melbourne herself, Helen Daniels. But while the show boasts an incredible cast turnover, few Neighbours stars allow themselves to be offed for good. Ex-Neighbours are usually dispatched to Brisbane or Europe, poised to reappear when the Home Office grows tired of their work visa applications. Two words: Kristian Schmidt.

EastEnders coshed its way onto our screens with the murder of the never-seen, oft-mentioned Reg Cox. One thousand instalments later, its reputation as the most hard-boiled, blood-spattered soap around is just about intact but the competition is fierce. Soap is life, with life comes death. And how. BROOKSIDE Body count: 1 1 deaths in 1,445 episodes SWf-to-show ratio: One in every 131.316 episodes Texas Chain-soap: Psycho-wing gunman John Clarke besieged a house full of rMSuide 20.