The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

with playwright
Hugh Steadman Williams. Stereo

Presented by Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Mgr Vincent Nichols.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Listeners investigate a variety of issues with the help of Susan Marling and the team.
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Six talks by John P Harris about living in a village in the South of France.
4: School
Producer Merilyn Harris

'I was fascinated by them while on holiday in Corfu. Where can I see them in Britain? Does the weather affect their luminescence?
Will their light go out once they find a mate?'
Jessica Holm and Fergus Keeling go off on the trail of glow worms. They also embark on a quest to track down the elusive
High Brown Fritillary. Producer John Holmes

Reflecting on the concerns of the day. Stereo

Stereo (Omnibus edition on Saturday at 6.25pm)

Sue MacGregor meets
Professor Robert Winston , Professor of Fertility Studies at London
University, to talk about his life and work.
Producer Gillian Hush

Black Hole
Alan Woodburn takes the train to London and needs his blue anorak as an anti-gravity suit.

Presented by John Howard.

Chairman Nigel Rees juggles bons mots with Sir Antony Jay , Victor Spinetti ,
Gemma O'Connor and A N Wilson.
Readings by Ronald Fletcher.
Producer Armando lannucci Stereo

Presented by James Naughtie.

From Abelard to Father
Ralph in The Thornbirds, why can the cassock, breviary and dog collar be so alluring to women? Clare Jenkins hears some confessions.
Serial: Going Wrong (4)

Edward Blishen invites
P D James and Norman Willis to talk about four paperbacks they consider to be A Good Read.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo

Paul Allen on the courage of outdoor actors who have to beat the weather; the world of Beatrix Potter and her characters is recreated in a new exhibition; and the Doug Anthony AUstars are back once again to insult their audiences.
Producer Beaty Rubens

with Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.

and Financial Report

Cameron is hosting a dinner party.

In the mid 19th century the Royal Society of Arts marked Byron's birthplace with a disc of porcelain. Since then hundreds of blue, brown and now green plaques honouring the great and the good have been unveiled. Eric Robson tours the residences of past notables to meet today's occupants. He is greeted by determination, an ancestral spider and a new commercialism which could place a plaque on all your houses.
Producer Mary Price

Two programmes about the ways we choose to chart the world around us.
With Peter Evans.
2: The Chart Show
Homer, James Joyce and Frederick Forsyth all draw literary maps.
Psychologists construct mental maps, while cosmologists chart the Alice-in-Wonderland world of black holes and space/time. Future maps will be seen not just on walls or in books but as a four-dimensional reality on a computer screen. Producer Daniel Snowman

with Kati Whitaker.
For disabled listeners.
Producer Marlene Pease 0 PHONE: [number removed](10.00am-5.00pm)
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with Roger White. Stereo

with Alexander Macleod.
Stereo

Across the Common by Elizabeth Berridge. Part 9.

A six-part crime series in 1830, a year after tht Metropolitan Police Act created the 'Peelers'.
Written by Patrick Carroll. 2: PC Quin is charged with assault, the riots worsen and the blackmail plot thickens.
Singer Martin Carthy.
Director Janet Whitaker. Stereo