The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with Dave Kitchen.
Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Richard Bewes.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Presented by Libby Purves.
Producer Bridget Osborne
visits Stoke-on-Trent where members of the Barlaston Gardeners'
Guild put their questions.
The Cries of Love by Patricia Highsmith. Read by Helen Horton. Hattie and Alice share their lives together - and their skirmishes. But today, Alice sneaks a lasting revenge.... Producer Sarah Kilgarriff
Christ Is Made the Sure
Foundation (Westminster Abbey. BBC HB 445); Psalm 46; Ephesians 2, w 11-20; Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
(Austria. BBC HB 176). Director of Music
Paul Joslin. Stereo
BT's new videophone, smart lifts, and why video recorders are a pain in the remote control.
Carol Vorderman loosens the nuts and bolts of today's technology. Producer Julian Brown
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with Debbie Thrower.
The quiz game that delves into the origins of well-known phrases and expressions.
With Sandi Toksvig , Leslie Thomas ,
Bill Oddie and Pam Ayres. Chris Serle is in the chair. Producer Paul Z Jackson. Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 2)
Presented by James Naughtie.
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
From jam and Jerusalem to yams and mbiras -
Anne Catchpole reports on the Women's Institutes of Zimbabwe.
Story: The Executor Final part.
Mike Harris 's four-part drama of race and power, told with irony and dark humour and set in the sweatshops, factories and immigration offices of Manchester and Dacca between 1917 and 1981. 3: Stitched Up
From humble beginnings, Vijay Patel has become prosperous and influential in his community. Now he is standing as a Tory in the local by-election. What price victory? Director Clive Brill. Stereo
Introduced by Michael Rosen.
How do children learn to read? And how do you define literacy?
Distinguished educationalist Margaret Meek discusses her visionary ideas with schools inspector Lyn Watkins.
Producer Jill Burridge
As society becomes progressively non-religious,
Chris Dunkley examines the secular alternative to divine rites of passage. The last of four programmes.
New Traditions?
Leading church and humanist thinkers discuss the need in society for new, recognised ceremonies.
Producer Fiona Couper Stereo
Nigel Andrews looks at the state of the British film schools and whether the long-awaited film renaissance is hidden therein; and Spanish guitarist Paco Pena sets the Mass to flamenco rhythms.
Producer Mike Greenwood
Stereo
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes.
and Financial Report
First Round - the North.
Stereo
Nelson has managed to set Caroline's mind working overtime.
John Waite investigates. Editor Graham Ellis
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Six concert performers talk to June Knox Mawer. 3: The clarinettist
Emma Johnson rose to prominence in 1984 when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year contest. Instead of pursuing her performing career, she turned to academic studies at
Cambridge University.
She talks about her life as a soloist and introduces her records of Debussy's Première Rapsodie and Crusell's Clarinet
Concerto No 3 in B flat. Producer Derek Drescher
Stereo
Stereo
with Roger White. Stereo
with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo
Fludd by Hilary Mantel. Part 3.
Stereo
'There's the proletarian Glasgow of cliche, strident and complaining, and there's the ritzy, glitzy, revamped version, packaged with glib ad-slogans. And somewhere else, out of the reckoning, is "Another Glasgow", the one in which I and all my sort were brought up ...' Writer Ronald Frame reflects on the middle-class city of his youth.
Producer David Jackson Young Stereo
