The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with the Rev Alun Evans.
Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.
A series of three programmes in which people in different professions explore the way their jobs have been seen and done in the past - with the help of the BBC Sound Archives.
2: Pop Stars
Holly Johnson , lead singer of Frankie Goes to
Hollywood, discovers how other legends have coped with stardom.
Producer Matt Thompson
with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
Presented by Louise Botting and Vincent Duggleby.
A Cigarette with Bette Davis by Tom Wakefield.
You can't eat popcorn during a Bette Davis film, Colin says. You have to smoke - even if you don't know how.
Read by David Horovitch. Producer Tessa Kendall
led by Denis Nowlan from the Lady Chapel of Westminster Cathedral with the choristers, directed by James O'Donnell. Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains (Mendelssohn); Blessed Jesus, at Thy Word
(Liebster Jesu); Isaiah 49, vv 1-6; Thy Word Is a Lamp (Colin Mawby); Forth in Thy Name, O Lord, I Go.
Organist: lain Simcock. Stereo
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers Tim Pigott-Smith and Elizabeth Bell and guest Gavin Ewart.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!. BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
0 WITH GREAT PLEASURE: Maya Angelou will present her choice of poetry and prose before a live audience in the Pans Theatre.
London, on Wednesday 19 June at 7.30pm. For tickets, telephone 0[number removed]
with Debbie Thrower. 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 - North West. John Treffry
(distribution clerk); Kate Allan
(retired teacher); Roy Mair (retired sales representative); and Nicholas Dennis
(standards co-ordinator). 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
Jenni Murray talks to the opera star
Jessye Norman. And the first of a three-part daily series on teaching children to read - how does the rest of Europe rate real books, phonics and Look and Say? Today a look at Germany. Serial: The Stand-in by Deborah Moggach.
The third of 13 episodes read by Deborah Maclaren. Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury Editor Sally Feldman
An unemployed car salesman suddenly finds himself the owner of a luxury flat and a large bank account. What's it all about? A comedy thriller written by Jack Gerson.
Director Matthew Walters Stereo
Natalie Wheen is at the double opening of architect
Norman Foster 's galleries at the Royal Academy with its exhibition of Matisse and the Fauves; and actress
Miriam Margolyes portrays Charles Dickens 's women.
Producer Belinda Sample
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
and Financial Report
Stereo
Mike and Betty re-examine their lives.
Presented by Derek Cooper.
The People's Woman j In Rib Davis 's play, Meg is delighted to win a seat in the local council elections - little realising the changes this will bring to her life.
Pianist: Harold Rich.
Director Philip Martin Stereo
Presented by Nigel Cassidy. Stereo
Presented by Richard Kershaw.
Editor Margaret Budy Stereo
Fludd by Hilary Mantel.
The sixth of ten parts abridged and read by the author.
Producer Jane Robinson. Stereo
Michael Bentine stars in the third of seven one-man shows, originally broadcast in 1984. Producer Jamie Rix. Stereo
