The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
with the Rev Vivienne Faull.
with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.
The last in the series of views of three different occupations as seen from the BBC Sound Archives. Prostitutes
Lindi St Clair whips up some sweet-talking street-walking from carefully preserved
'Ladies of the Night'. Producer Penny Lawrence
with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
Herr Bambinger by Mordecai Richler. Canada during the Second
World War. A young boy has to give up his bedroom to a curious little man from the Old World.
And horrors! His family are also on their way.
Read by William Roberts. Producer Duncan Minshull
led by the Rev Norman
Winter from Cliff College, Calver, in Derbyshire.
Facing a Task Unfinished (Aurelia); Isaiah 6, w 1-8; Be Still, for the Presence of the Lord; Jesus, Send More Labourers. Director of Music: the Rev Kathleen Bowe.
Stereo
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers Tim Pigott-Smith and Elizabeth Bell and guest Gavin Ewart.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 9 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 - West.
Guy Herbert (publisher); Pearl Norman
(retired teacher); Robert Fromow (interpreter); and Philip Gold
(hospital administrator). The programme includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey
Introduced by Dilly Barlow.
Will divorce ever be made legal in the Republic of Ireland? Fiona Gough reports on the growing pressure for change.
Serial: The Stand-in by Deborah Moggach.
The eighth of 13 episodes read by Deborah Maclaren. Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury Editor Sally Feidman
A young journalist is on the trail of an Irish supergrass. A thriller written by Peter McKelvey
Director Michael Fox. Stereo
Paul Vaughan assesses the insights into the life and music of Benjamin Britten as the composer's letters are published; and the Boyle Family, who recreate fragments of the environment for the art gallery, show their new work.
Producer Mike Greenwood
Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
0 WRITE to: PM Letters, BBC, London Wl A 1AA
and Financial Report
The last in the present series of classic scripts by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman.
Stereo
Peggy is relishing the prospect of making a home for Jack.
with Derek Cooper.
Shambolic Rainbow
Life isn't easy for a 7-year-old in the middle of riots and civil unrest.
Nor is it made easier when your little sister mysteriously disappears. An apocalyptic drama from Philip Ridley , author of recent film scripts The Krays and The Reflecting Skin.
Director Peter Kavanagh Stereo
Is organic farming inevitably kinder to the environment than conventional agriculture? Is organic produce really better for us than food grown with pesticides and fertilisers?
Colin Tudge investigates. Producer Deborah Cohen
Stereo
Presented by Roger White. Stereo
Presented by Robin Lustig.
Editor Margaret Budy Stereo
Age of Iron
J M Coetzee's bleakly haunting novel in the form of a letter from a woman in Cape Town to her estranged daughter in America.
The first of ten episodes read by Yvonne Bryceland. Abridged by Brian Astbury
Producer Stewart Conn
Michael Bentine stars in the fourth of seven one-man shows, originally broadcast in 1984. Producer Jamie Rox. Stereo
