The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
with the Rev
James McAllister.
with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.
and How to Be Topp by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle.
The fifth of seven parts read by Griff Rhys Jones. Abridged by Wendy Cope Producer Susan Roberts
The last of the series with Charles Kennedy. Producer Cathie Mahoney Stereo
A tale of two wine shops: the first in London's
Commercial Road in the heart of the Jewish East End, the second in Great Titchfield Street between the West End rag trade and the media.
Eighty-one-year-old Aaron Frumkin has presided over both and introduces his family, his customers and his friends.
Producers Piers Plowright and Adnan Quine. Stereo
A Bekkersdal Marathon by Herman Charles Bosman. Read by Stratford Johns . Producer Matthew Walters
from St Martin 's Church, Ballymacarrett, Belfast. Hymns: Approach, My Soul, the Mercy Seat; 0 Lord, Increase My Faith; Psalm 143; Lord Teach Us How to Pray Aright.
Simon Rae travels to the Isle of Man to meet listener Geoffrey Crellin and to hear some requested poems by the island's national poet T E Brown.
Producer Susan Roberts. Stereo 0 REQUESTS to: Poetry Please!. BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR
with Debbie Thrower.
Editor Ken Vass
The team from the west, Jack Jones and Elaine Morgan , challenges resident Londoners Irene
Thomas and Eric Korn.
Chaired by Gordon Clough and Louis Allen.
Producer Paul Z Jackson. Stereo
with Nick Clarke.
Editor Roger Mosey
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: The Reluctant Samaritan: Tales of Old Age by Winifred Beechey.
'As in Miss Austen's day it was universally accepted that a young unmarried man with a house and a fortune was in need of a wife, so Mrs Girdlestone might have been beguiled into accepting a somewhat similar assumption with me; that one elderly lady living alone is in need of an even more elderly lady to live with her.'
The first of five episodes read by Pauline Letts. Abridged by Janet Hickson Music:
Bozzas Fantaisie pastorale Editor Sally Feldman
'Who is the sane one,' asked the philosopher Bertrand Russell , 'the man who cracks up because of Hiroshima or the rest of us who remain unaffected by it?' On 10 December 1957 Claude 'Buck' Eatherly, ex-509th Squadron USAF, stood trial for robbing post offices. He pleaded not guilty by virtue of insanity. Written by Colin Davis.
Director Andy Jordan. Stereo
Natalie Wheen discusses the poems of W H Auden ; talks to author
Ruth Rendell about the darker side of the London
Underground; and meets pianist Joanna MacGregor. Producer James Clarke
Stereo
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.
Write to: PM Letters, [address removed]
There's no end to the work at Brookfield.
The final programme in which Clive Langmead joins crews who are not necessarily seasoned sailors but, for extraordinary reasons, are all in the same boat.
Something in Reserve Members of the Royal
Naval Reserve put to sea aboard a minesweeper. Producer Penny Afzal
Michael Duke 's political comedy is set in an illegal organisation's 'safe house', where there may be a 'mole' in the bedroom.
Director Patrick Rayner. Stereo
In the last of the present series, Helen Lederer improves her job interview technique.
With Amelia Bullmore , Malcolm Raeburn , James Quinn and Victoria Finney.
Producer Paul Z Jackson. Stereo
Stereo
Presented by Roger White. Stereo
Presented by Stephen Jessel. Editor Margaret Budy Stereo
Berlin Days 1946-47 by George Clare. Read in five parts by Andrew Sachs. .. 1: Beyond Hate or Pity Abridged by Brian Miller
Producer Sue Wilson. Stereo
The third of six programmes in which Simon Hoggart casts a fresh eye over some old favourite columns from the past series.
Producer Brian King
by James Joyce.
The 13th of 16 episodes read by Norman Rodway. Adapted by John Scotney Producer Peter Kavanagh
