The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter

A meditation for the beginning of a new day with Henry Tankel.

with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.

The last of three programmes which recall great radio shows of the past. Oh, Ron!
June Whitfield, Eth in 'The Glums', relives the Take It from Here years. Producer Julian Hale

with Mark Lawson.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo

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I'll Never Know by A L Barker.
An antiques journalist is exploring some beautiful and rare panels in an old country house in Sussex. But she discovers more than a passing connection between their artistry and meaning and herself.
Read by Angela Thorne. Producer Enyd Williams. Stereo

with Fr Cormac Rigby in St Gregory 's Church, Cheltenham, as part of Radio Goes to Town.
God Is Love (Ubi Caritas, NEH 513); Luke 5, w 17-25; Exsultate Deo
(A Scarlatti); Pater Noster (Michael Gryspeerdt ); Forth in Thy Name
(Song 34, NEH 235). With the Oriel Singers directed by Tim Morris. Stereo

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Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers Ronald
Pickup and Diana Bishop and guest Gillian Clarke. Producers Susan Roberts and Viv Beeby. Stereo
0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR

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 Semi-Final.
John Wylie
(chartered surveyor); Lance Haward
(consultant in education law); Sue Edwards
(corporate finance administrator); and Ken Ricketts
(computer engineer).
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

Kenneth Anger, Jackie Collins and Julia Phillips on how Hollywood dishes the dirt and shoots the stars.
Serial: The Adultery Department by Paul Bryers.
The sixth of 13 episodes read by Philip Fox. Abridged by Meg Clarke Editor Sally Feldman

Agatha Christie's famous detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France on an urgent matter, but on arrival he discovers his client is dead.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell Director Enyd Williams Stereo

Robert Walker visits the new Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery; and novelist Amy Tan is live in the studio.
Producer Anthony Denselow
Stereo

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh

and Financial Report

Stereo

Joe's ship has come in - or so he thinks.

In the third of a six-part series, Tony Wilkinson crosses to New Zealand.
It's market day in Otara, hub of the South Auckland
Maori and South Pacific communities, and a fish war threatens. The
Manukau Courier has a hard job covering both good and bad sides of the racial mix.
Producer Julian Hale. Stereo

Written by Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Somewhere near Lagos the sinister Brigade Against Indiscipline are active. Miguel Domingo, who comes from an influential family, has been falsely arrested.
Will he escape his fate?
(Stereo)

Andy Croft investigates three northern English regions to find out how their traditional identities have been shaped by writers, and how these identities are standing up to the growing uniformity of the urban landscape, which threatens to blot out individual regional differences for ever.
2: Teesside: a Vast Dingy Conjuring Trick
Producer Dave Sheasby. Stereo '

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Presented by Roger White. Stereo

Presented by Robin Lustig.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

Full House by Molly Keane.
The sixth of ten parts abridged and read by Sara Kestleman.
Producer Jane Morgan

Michael Bentine stars in the last of seven one-man shows, originally broadcast in 1984. Producer Jamie Rix. Stereo (Rpr