The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with Ruth Etchells.
Stereo
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jonathan Fryer.
Aisling Foster presents the last of a three-part delve into the BBC Archives.
It Was a Zen Experience - or so John Lennon said, when he baked his first loaf of bread. But the cult of the chef is nothing new. Producer Elizabeth Burke. Stereo
with Mark Lawson ,
Cynthia Rose and guests. Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
Vincent Duggleby is joined by two experts to take your calls on financial support for the elderly. Producer Frances Macdonald 0 LINES OPEN from 8.30am
The Little Heidelberg by Isabel Allende.
Diana Quick reads a romantic tale of a love that takes 40 years to find its voice and then vanishes.
Producer Janet Whitaker
from the Chapel of St
Catharine's Convent of Mercy, Edinburgh. Led by the Rev Johnston McKay , with the Edinburgh University Chamber Choir directed by Nicholas Jones.
Reading: Matthew 12, w 9-21.
Organist: Andrew Wilson.
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests read by Ronald Pickup.
Guests, poet Wendy Cope and artist Nicholas Garland take a look at poetry illustration.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Chairman
Robert Robinson.
First Round - London. Michael Whelan (local government officer); Andrew Brown
(system analyst); Carol Gardiner
(freelance editor); and John Wylie
(chartered surveyor).
The programme includes Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey
by the Liberal Democrats.
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: Hester Lilly by Elizabeth Tay !or. The final part read by Anna Massey.
Music: Saint-Saens"s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Abridged by Delia Paton Editor Sally Feldman
Hollywood director Curt Zorack's filming is interrupted by a murder.
Written by Michael McStay.
(Stereo)
at the Sony Radio Awards
Paul Allen reports live from the Grosvenor
House Hotel on the occasion of the year's most prestigious radio awards - from Best
Breakfast Show to
Best Documentary. Producer John Goudie
Stereo (Repeated at 9. 15pm;
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
0 WRITE to: PM Letters. BBC. London Wl A 1AA
and Financial Report
Stereo
How do you begin to explain cricket to the uninitiated?
Including the monthly series The Tastemakers which looks at how food guides have influenced eating habits.
With Derek Cooper.
Alan Howard plays Paracelsus, a mountebank who was yet a physician centuries ahead of his time; a professor who debunked universities; a chemist who claimed to have turned lead into gold; a womaniser; and a wanderer who probed the ambiguous frontiers of modern science. The play is set in Basel around 1527, at the peak of his tempestuous career.
Written by Mark Barratt.
Director John Theocharis. Stereo
One of this country's leading chamber ensembles displays the lighter side of their repertoire.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
Stereo
with Nigel Cassidy. Stereo
with Richard Kershaw.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
An Autumn Sowing by E F Benson.
The sixth of ten episodes read by Denys Hawthorne. Abridged by Anthony Kearey
Producer Enyd Williams. Stereo
A six-part comedy written by Alex Shearer.
3: A Loss of Marbles Gathering dust in the British Museum are great lumps of the Republic's heritage - and now it wants them back.
Producer Neil Cargill Stereo
