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
Michael Child. Stereo
with Sue MacGregor and Chris Lowe.
Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi
Lionel Blue.
Peter Mayle completes his award-winning account of his first year grappling with life in Provence, in two programmes. 1: November
Abridged by Meg Clarke
Producer Sheila Fox. Stereo
with Charles Kennedy. Producer Cathie Mahoney Stereo
by Frederic Raphael.
Ronnie Trafford and three acquaintances meet regularly for a game of tennis. But these reunions are often charged with small rivalries....
Read by Norman Rodway.
led by Denis Nowlan from Holloway Seventh Day
Adventist Church, London, with the London
Adventist Chorale.
Rejoice Ye Pure in Heart; Psalm 4; Perfect Peace;
Near to the Heart of God. Directors of Music Derek Hoyte and Ken Burton. Stereo
Artist Gordon Beningfield returns to the Hertfordshire hamlet of Ayot St Lawrence.
Stereo
Simon Rae introduces your poetry requests, with readers
Denys Hawthorne and June Barrie , and guest listener Mollie Masters from Aldershot.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!, BBC, Bristol BS8 2LR
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. Fourth Semi-Final: Highest Scoring Runners-Up.
Chris Hill (accountant); Margaret Thomas (housewife);
John Poulter (retired school teacher); and Russell Collins (library assistant).
The programme includes Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
Presented by Nick Clarke.
Editor Roger Mosey
Introduced by Wendy Austin.
Serial: Going Wrong by Ruth Rendell.
The sixth of 12 episodes read by Crawford Logan. Abridged by Monica Grey Editor Sally Feldman
Steve Trafford's play won a 1990 Sony Award nomination for Elizabeth
Mansfield's performance as Marie Lloyd.
When Marie Lloyd died in 1922, aged 52, it was estimated 100,000 people watched the funeral procession. Raunchy to the end, she knew how to give an audience a good time.
With Mary Allen ,
Nigel Carrington , Brian Miller , and Michael Kilgarriff. Musicians:
Maurice Cambridge , Noel Langley ,
Steve Wilks , Roy Babington and Stephen Rose. Director of Music
Jack Glover.
Director Janet Whitaker Stereo
Robert Dawson-Scott previews Radio 4's adaptation of James Joyce 's Ulysses, which begins tonight; Bernstein's last recording, of his musical
Candide, is reviewed; and Simon Fanshawe reports on the Montreal Festival of Comedy.
Producer Adrian Washbourne Stereo
with Valerie Singleton and Wendy Austin. Editor Kevin Marsh
and Financial Report
Stereo
Ruth and David are finding domestic chores a problem.
The aborigines are painting - and drinking collibah - on the dry riverbed in Alice Springs. But the Centralian
Advocate is in trouble, accused of racist bias.
Tony Wilkinson files his last report in the present series. Producer Julian Hale. Stereo
A Fluttering of Wings Anthony Neilson 's modern-day adult fairy story tells of the effect of a winged stranger on ' Alice's shattered life.
Director Patrick Rayner. Stereo
Helen Lederer enjoys the ; zing of alternative therapies.
With
Christopher Campbell ,
Malcolm Raeburn , Victoria Finney and Sandra Maitland. j Producer Paul Z Jackson. Stereo
Stereo
with Roger White. Stereo
with Robin Lustig.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
Talking It Over by Julian Barnes. ; What happens when your best friend falls in love with your wife on your wedding day? j The first of ten parts abridged and read by Geoffrey Beevers , with readers Andrew Wincott and Jane Whittenshaw. > Producer Richard Wortley
Martin Amis ,
John Banville , Clare Boylan , A S Byatt, Neil Jordan and Tom Paulin look forward to Ulysses on the air. Presented by Frank Delaney.
Producer Ed Thomason. Stereo j
James Joyce 's masterpiece ; adapted in 16 parts, introduced by Seamus Heaney. j 1: The young poet Stephen \ has been recalled from ! Paris to Dublin to be at I his mother's deathbed.
But he refused her last j wishes: to kneel and pray for her. Now he must suffer ...
Read by Stephen Rea. Adapted by John Scotney Producer Peter Kavanagh
