The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

with Dave Kitchen.

Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Richard Bewes
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

John Waite investigates listeners' complaints.

In the first of four programmes on languages, Ray Gosling looks at the origins of this 'Kitchen Dutch' and considers whether, in a now rapidly changing
Republic of South Africa, Afrikaans will survive.
With Hildegard Reid (nee Botha), Nizam Hussein. Nhlanhla Maake and Isabel Hofmeyer. Producer Jenny Lo

Each year a few golden orioles return to a small area in East Anglia to breed. What keeps them coming?
Fergus Keeling reports. Producer John Harrison

Reflecting on the concerns of the day. Stereo

Stereo (Omnibus edition on Saturday at 6.25pm)

Six playwrights in conversation with Rosemary Hartill about how their ideas and beliefs influence their work. 3: Arnold Wesker
Producer David Coomes. Stereo

Is there life after therapy? George Hyde describes his brush with madness. Stereo

with Debbie Thrower.

Wilfrid Hyde White and Richard Murdoch in The Big Rocket with Roy Dotrice , Diana Olsson and David Graham. Written and produced by Edward Taylor. Stereo

with James Naughtie.

Julie Walters and Patricia Hayes talk to Jenni Murray about working together.
Serial: The Stand-in by Deborah Moggach. Jules is an unknown actress in thrall to Trev, a working-class charmer. Then she becomes the stand-in for a famous movie star, and her life - and Trev's - changes forever.
The first of 13 episodes read by Deborah Maclaren. Music: Harris's Prelude and Fugue for String Orchestra.
Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury

'The great mass of Americans were once known as "the salt of the earth"; now, alas, as couch potatoes.'
Journalist
Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her collection of provocative essays on American politics and culture. Also, David Hare 's views on British theatre, and a new thriller from
Michael Dibdin.
Presented by Nigel Forde. Producer Vivien Devlin

Paul Allen ventures to the Rollright Stones to see actor Mark Rylance in The Tempest, the new play by Italian dramatist Dario Fo is premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse; and Judy Meewezen finds new paths to follow at the Grizedale Forest Sculpture Trail.
(Stereo) (Repeated at 9.15pm)

Presented by Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.

and Financial Report

Stereo

Jill finally finds someone willing to put up her two American 'golden girls'.

Five portraits of radio greats.
3: It's That Man Again But was Mrs Handley 's little boy, Tommy, as funny and generous as legend paints him?
Phil Smith rounds out a portrait of an elusive man whose sudden death made millions mourn.
Producer Julian Hale. Stereo

To Have and to
Have Not
Where has the ending of east-west conflict left the former Third World?
Peter Hennessy discusses the changing shape of north-south relations, and the role of foreign aid in developing countries. Producer Zareer Masam

with Kati Whitaker.
For disabled listeners.
Producer Marlene Pease 0 PHONE: [number removed]
(Monday-Friday,
10.00am-5.00pm)

Stereo

with Roger White. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo

Fludd by Hilary Mantel. Part 4.
Stereo

The third in a series of four plays based on Maeve Binchy's ironic view of London life.
Holland Park
When two women come to dinner together in Holland Park, it can mean only one thing ...
Dramatised by Kate Binchy Director Eoin O'Callaghan Stereo