The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with playwright
Hugh Steadman Williams. Stereo
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.
Chapman Pincher abseils through the Sound
Archives in search of those who risk their lives every working day. 2: All at Sea
Producer Niall Sookoo Stereo
with Charles Kennedy.
Producer Cathie Mahoney. Stereo
Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland by Carson McCullers. 'Affairs in the music department were running smoothly. There was only this nagging apprehension about Madame Zilensky. Mr Brook could not work it out.' Read by Shelley Thompson. Producer Duncan Minshull
from St Anne 's Church, Strathpeffer, led by the Rev Johnston McKay , with Susan Gray , BBC Choirgirl of the Year.
Hymns: Tell Out My Soul; Rise in the Strength of God; Reading: Luke 1, w 46-55; Anthem: (Attr Redford) Rejoice in the Lord. Stereo
Stereo
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers June Barrie and Denys Hawthorne, and guest listener Les Marsh from York.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, [address removed] 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. Third Semi-Final. Nicholas Dennis
(standards coordinator); Guy Herbert
(environmental strategy consultant); Chris Wright
(steel worker);
Angus Dunn (teacher).
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 Wendy Austin.
Serial: Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell.
The first of 12 episodes read by Crawford Logan. Briefly, in their teens, Guy and Leonora were lovers. Now Guy refuses to accept that their lives have moved on. He phones Leonora every day and every Saturday they have lunch....
Abridged by Monica Grey Music: Lennox Berkeley 's String Trio
Editor Sally Feldman
A 1990 Giles Cooper Award Winner.
Steve Walker 's metaphysical comedy about a low-life denizen of betting shops who discovers that his brother has been made Pope.
Director Peter Kavanagh Stereo
Peter Howarth tells the story of Thomas Allen ,
19th-century 'colporteur' (a hawker of books) in Bacup. With
Malcolm Raebum as Thomas Allen.
Producer Gillian Hush. Stereo
Louisa Buck visits the National Trust's first semi-detached property, in Worksop, and listens to the music of Melanie and Wayne Marshall ;
Judy Meewezen reports on new writers in the North West.
Producer Richard Bannerman
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh e WRITE to: PM Letters, BBC, London W1A A lAA
and Financial Report
Kenton is tempted to run away to sea again ...
In a far western suburb of Sydney, Tony Wilkinson reports on a week's work on the Penrith Press. It's not all floods, garbage tips and drug busts. There are violin lessons at the Joan Sutherland Arts Centre and male beauty contests at the Panthers' Club.
Producer Julian Hale. Stereo
A Good Client
The business of being a solicitor is just that - a business - and it is all too easy to forget that they are dealing with people's . lives. When Robert is given a murder case to handle, however, this fact is brought home sharply to him. Written by Carolyn Sally Jones.
Director Kay Patrick. Stereo
NEW Helen Lederer with five more efforts at sorting out the troubles of modem existence.
Today: Recession With
Christopher Campbell ,
Malcolm Raeburn , Victoria Finney and Sandra Maitland.
Producer Paul Z Jackson. Stereo
with Nigel Cassidy. Stereo
with Robin Lustig. Editor Margaret Budy Stereo
Across the Common by Elizabeth Berridge. The sixth of ten parts read by Imogen Stubbs. Abridged by Yvonne Antrobus Producer Peter Kavanagh
Loss
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of Loss, with jokes, quotes and comedy clips from Victor Borge , Shelley Berman , Jack Sheldon ,
Bob Newhart , Peter Cook and Alan Bennett.
'In the midst of life we are in debt.'
(Ethel Watts Mumford)
Producer Richard Edis Stereo
