The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
with Rosemary Wakelin. Stereo
with Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev Tom Butler , the Bishop of Willesden.
The final programme in which
Professor Theo Barker delves among the BBC Sound Archives.
In for a Penny ...
What did you do in your spare time, Grandad?
A century ago, youthful pastimes were often a lot more enterprising than today.
Producer Daniel Snowman
with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
The Proper Respect by Isabel Allende.
Diana Quick reads this tale of a pair of scoundrels who con their way into the highest echelons of society.
Producer Janet Whitaker
from the Cathedral
Church of St Nicholas,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, led by Canon Noel Vincent. Choir directed by the Master of the Music, Timothy Hone , accompanied by David Cowen. Reading: Joel 2, w 28-32. Hymns: Filled with the Spirit's Power
(Farley Castle); There's a Spirit in the Air (Lauds). Anthem: If Ye Love Me (TaUis).
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers Elizabeth Bell and Ronald Pickup and guest Philip Gross.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
Presented by 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 - Midlands. Stephen Terry (accountant);
Margaret Thomas (housewife);
Jonathan Souster
(software consultant); and Tony Powell
(company manager).
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
with Jenni Murray.
Sequins, sambas and sweat - ballroom dancing champions Karen and Marcus Hilton prepare to defend their British Open title in Blackpool.
Serial: The Franchise
Affair by Josephine Tey. The tenth of 13 parts read by Edward Petherbridge. Abridged by Pat McLoughlin Editor Sally Feldman
Poisoning by arsenic was the method used by Herbert Armstrong to rid himself of a troublesome wife. Written by John Peacock.
Pianist: Mary Nash.
Director Jane Morgan. Stereo
Paul Vaughan meets
Moondog, once a busker, now a musical superstar; is moved by a new recording of Verdi's Aida; and finds out what's rising to the top at the Cannes Film Festival.
Producer Julian May
Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.
and Financial Report
Stereo
Phil has upset Neil by overriding his knowledge of pigs.
with Derek Cooper.
The Fen Story
'An axe upon a skull. ! That's one way, brother.' The Danish invasion of England in 892 was only the ill-planned enterprise of an army that had been defeated on the Continent.
But a sentence in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle brings the chronicler,
Brother John , into direct conflict with the king's ealdorman. Written by Adam Thorpe.
With Andrew Wincott.
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle translated by G N Garmonsway.
Music composed and played by Martin Best .
Musician: Lucie Skeaping.
Director Jeremy Mortimer. Stereo
Stereo
with Roger White. Stereo
with Alexander MacLeod.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
Heartstones by Ruth Rendell.
'In those days I had never given a thought to poisoning and I can be sure of this, I had nothing to do with Mother's death!'
The first of five episodes read by Oona Beeson.
Producer Matthew Walters. Stereo
The last in a six-part comedy written by Alex Shearer.
Cultural Exchange
With heavy metal and dancing defectors,
MacKenzie and Surikov mix the oil and water of artistic detente.
Producer Neil Cargill. Stereo
