Practical farming, politics and the countryside.
Producers Dylan Winter and Sue Broom
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with Michael Shoesmith.
Stereo
with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue • CASSETTE: 50 Thoughts for the Day by Rabbi Lionel Blue, from retailers
A series of views of different occupations. 2: The Farmer
Derek Lomax , self-styled 'Lancashire peasant', digs through the BBC Sound Archives in search of a happy farmer.
Producer Tessa Watt. Stereo
with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Manna Saiandy-Brown Stereo
CThe Easter Monday edition of Start the Week is coming from Newcastle. To obtain tickets for the recording at 10.00am on Wednesday 27 March send an sae marked Start the Week to: [address removed]
with Louise Botting and Vincent Duggleby.
The Iron Hand by Lawrence Durrell.
As if being called Percy were not stupid enough, the embassy second footman rather fancied himself in the suit of armour known as the White Knight.
Read by Frank Windsor . Producer John Theocharis Stereo
from the Royal Research ship Discovery, Dundee, led by the Rev Stewart Lamont. Eternal Father, Strong to Save (527); Lord in the Fullness of Thy Might (435); God Is Our Refuge and Our
Strength (24); St Mark 10,vv 32-45. Stereo
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests. With readers
Tim Pigott-Smith and Elizabeth Bell and guest Andrew Motion. Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
* CASSETTE: Poetry Please!, from retailers
Presented by Margaret Collins Editor Ken Vass
The well-read literary quiz chaired by Gill Pyrah , with guests Sue Limb, Liz Lochhead and Robert Booth.
Producer Sarah Smith. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie Editor Roger Mosey
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
There are 44 women
MPs. But how many will there be after the next election? Sonia Beesley investigates.
Serial: Lost for Words. The 13th of 14 parts written and read by Deric Longden.
Abridged by Pat McLoughlin
Music: Andy Fairweather Low 's Wide-Eyed and Legless Editor Sally Feldman
Peter Mackie's play pits the great detective Sherlock Holmes against a real-life demon of Victorian crime.
Stradivarius played by Roger Coull.
(Stereo)
Natalie Wheen meets the young conductor Mark Wigglesworth , who is currently conducting the BBC SO at the Barbican; discovers how East meets
West in the music of Shiva
Nova; and reports on a new dramatisation of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Producer Belinda Sample
Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge Editor Kevin Marsh
0 WRITE to: PM Letters. BBC. London Wl A 1AA
and Financial Report
Stereo
A look at the British butty and the French baguette. With Derek Cooper.
Louise Page's black comedy about Netty, her mum, a cardigan knitted with love in every stitch, and the perils of greed and exploitation.
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with Nigel Cassidy. Stereo
with David Sells
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
Brother of the More
Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido. This 1982 Whitbread
Special Prize Winner tells the story of Katherine, who enters the bohemian world of the Goldman family, as student to
Jacob Goldman , eccentric philosophy professor and all-round straight-talker. The first of 11 parts read by Cheryl Kennedy. Abridged by Hallam Tennyson Producer Clive Brill
Another chance to hear selected editions of the comedy show starring Andy Hamilton , Nick Revell , Lesley Sharp and Jasper Jacob.
Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer Stereo
