The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with the Rev Hugh White. Stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev James Jones.
by H E Bates. Part 2.
Listeners report on a variety of issues with the help of Susan Marling and the Punters team.
Editor Jenny Walmsley
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The Balkans
In the fifth programme in the series, Misha Glenny looks at this troubled region and wonders whether it will be the scene of Europe's only war since 1945.
Producer Geoff Spink
Fergus Keeling and Jessica Holm find out that falling over is not a problem for the violet
'skip-jack' or click beetle, but that its life is threatened by the loss of ancient woodland in Britain.
Producer John Ruthven
Reflecting on the concerns of the day. Stereo
Stereo (Omnibus edition on Saturday at 6.25pm)
Sue MacGregor meets the composer and conductor Antony Hopkins , for once talking about his own life in music.
Producer Gillian Hush
Ex-punk Mark Davies
Markham reflects on how former rebel band The
Clash are now a big seller for jeans. Stereo
Presented by Debbie Thrower.
Editor Ken Vass
The final episode of Stephen Sheridan 's six-part comedy.
The Resurrection of Reverend Carswell Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie.
She used to be in TV dramas, now she writes them. Lynda La Plante tells Jenni Murray about widows, women detectives and Mafia molls.
Serial: Birth Marks (3)
Premonitory dreams and haunting obsessions ...
An ordinary, pen-pushing desk sergeant finds himself drawn into an extraordinary crime in Anthony George 's new thriller.
Director Nigel Bryant. Stereo
What is it that motivates a person to sit in solitude filling blank pages with words? Does an author write to change the world, to make money or simply because of a love of language? Nigel Forde explores the novelist's mind with the help of contemporary writers including Paul Auster , Susan Hill and David Lodge.
Producer Sally Marmion
Robert Dawson-Scott sees the Tara Arts production of Oedipus
Rex, as the company faces closure; and Judy Meewezen reports on a Birmingham dance company who are currently working with the American jazz drummer Peter Erskine.
Producer Kate Wilkinson
Stereo
Presented by Wendy Austin and Hugh Sykes.
and Financial Report
Brian Johnston umpires another test of wit and general knowledge, from Ripley Cricket Club in Surrey.
With Tim Rice , Willie Rushton , Alfred Marks and William Franklyn. Producer Jon Magnusson Stereo
The last in a series of graphic features reflecting contemporary life in Britain.
Ninety miles north-east of London, in rural east Suffolk, a community of 4,500 Americans live near the inhabitants of Woodbridge. RAF Bentwaters is home to the USAF 81st Tactical Fighter Wing and, during the Gulf War, reporter Pat Rowe spent a week there, with the men and women whose lives centre on one thing - keeping the 'Warthogs' flying.
(Stereo)
From Clogs to Clogs? In the last of three programmes on Britain's relative economic decline, Peter Hennessy asks: after a century of political debate about industrial regeneration, are we a nation that really wants to be modernised? Or is it simply lack of business as usual?
Producer Caroline Anstey
with Kati Whitaker.
Producer Marlene Pease
Stereo
with Roger White. Stereo
with Alexander MacLeod.
Stereo
The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W N P Barbellion. Final part. Stereo
Ken Blakeson 's humorous exploration of middle age, in seven parts. 6: Separations
The end of a beautiful friendship? Billy's hopes collapse.
Additional material by Tom Mennard.
Producer Susan Hogg. Stereo
The last of four talks.
The White Chemise
by Russell Celyn Jones. Part 4. Stereo
