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 Canon Michael Sadgrove.
with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Pauline Webb.
Three programmes which recall great radio shows of the past. 1: Let's Go Somewhere 'The idea was to make people laugh, to get them excited....'
Forty years ago, Saturday nights were action-packed for Brian Johnston.
Each week, live on air he performed stunts which shocked, thrilled and scared the millions of listeners to
In Town Tonight.
Producer Cathy Drysdale. Stereo
with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
with Louise Botting and Vincent Duggleby.
The Devil, the Nun and the Tango Dancer Michael Carson 's story is set in the Bordello de
Libertad in Buenos Aires. Once there was a dancer with two daughters. One became a nun, the other followed mother. Then the devil intervened and all hell broke loose.
Read by Sean Barrett. Producer Duncan Minshull
for St John the Baptist's Day from the Kirk of St John the Baptist, Perth. Presented by Johnston McKay.
Hymns: On Jordan's Banks; Sing We the Praises; We Wait for Thy Loving Kindness. Reading: Matthew 11, w2-ll.
Stereo
Presented by Simon Rae.
Robert Powell reads from The Armada, and Horatius from The Lays of Ancient Rome, by Thomas Babington , Lord Macaulay.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
0 CASSETTE: Poetry Please!, from retailers
Presented by 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 - Wales. Chris Wright
(steel worker); Ian Richardson (civil servant); Russell Collins
(library assistant); and Colin Marsh (careers officer).
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 Jenni Murray.
How accurate are the results of GCSE and A-levels? And how consistent are the standards? Sonia Beesley examines the examiners. Serial: The Stand-in by Deborah Moggach.
The last of 13 parts read by Deborah Maclaren.
Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury Music: Harris's Prelude and Fugue for String Orchestra Editor Sally Feldman
Roger Davenport's down-at-heel detective Eddie Hamilton is in action again, hired to protect a Scottish landowner from a series of death threats.
(Stereo) (Rpt)
Paul Vaughan experiences Puccini's opera Tosca in its grand setting at Earls Court; and BBC Radio announces the Giles Cooper Awards for the best new radio plays.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
9 WRITE to: PM Letters, BBC, London W1A 1AA
The return of the classic panel game. This week, from the Brighton Festival. Stereo
Should Phil and David spray where the Montagu's Harrier is nesting or not?
The first of a six-part series in which
Tony Wilkinson reports on local newspapers in Australia and New Zealand. This week he visits Queensland's Sugar Coast. The local paper has stories of secret beaches, white elephants and randy kangaroos. Can you really believe all you read in the Isis Town and Country? Producer Julian Hale Stereo
Life after Death
Obsessed with death and release from boredom, Charlie meets a girl and comes face to face with his fantasies.
Written by Dave Dick.
Director Geny Jones. Stereo
Bats were once reviled, but now attitudes towards them have changed. Colin Tudge asks if it is possible for all animals, including humans, to live together in perfect harmony.
Producer John Harrison
Stereo
with Heather Payton. Stereo
with Robin Lustig.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
Age of Iron by J M Coetzee.
The sixth of ten parts read by Yvonne Bryceland. Abridged by Brian Astbury
Producer Stewart Conn
Michael Bentine stars in the fifth of seven one-man shows, originally broadcast in 1984. Producer Jamie Rix. Stereo
