The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
A meditation for the beginning of a new day presented by Jane Grayshon. Stereo
Presented by Brian Redhead andSueMacGregor.
Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev
Tom Butler.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to talk to Nick Ross and his guests on an issue of the moment.
Producer Nick Utechin
• LINES OPEN from 8.00am
Numbers. Final part.
with Jenni Murray.
Is breast best, or the bottle better? Karen Deco explores the pleasures and pressures faced by the new mother.
Serial: Celia Johnson (2)
Professor Anthony Clare presents the last of the current series of the weekly magazine devoted to matters of the mind.
Editor Michael Ember
Presented by Debbie Thrower.
An adaptation of John le Carre 's novel in seven parts.
2: Vladimir's murder is an embarrassment to the Circus ... and George Smiley has been persuaded out of retirement to "lay him to rest", quietly, without fuss. But the old agent left a legacy, which Smiley cannot ignore.
George Smiley. .... BERNARD HEPTON
Adapted by Rene Basilico
Producer John Fawcett Wilson Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie.
Straightening Pictures In NJ Warburton's play, first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, the lives of four women are unwittingly linked by an apparently trivial but ultimately tragic accident.
Director Matthew Walters
Stereo
with John Morton and Cynthia MiUar - players of one of the rarest and most exotic of all musical instruments: the ondes Martenot.
Producer Michael Emery Stereo
Natalie Wheen discusses the new biography of the writer Philip K Dick ; the shortlist for the Whitbread
Book of the Year is announced; and composer John Casken 's music theatre piece about the supernatural, Golem, goes on a national tour.
Producer Belinda Sample. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
A Mine of Serpents Shena Mackay 's bittersweet tale for Guy
Fawkes' night recalls two brothers at war, the mystical powers of Madam Alphonsine and overdosing on marshmallows....
Read by Stephen Moore. Producer Duncan Minshull
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.
from Brook Cricket Club, Surrey. Brian Johnston umpires another test of wit and general knowledge. Captains Tim Rice and Willie Rushton , with Stephen Fry and Rachael Heyhoe-Flint .
Producer Jon Magnusson. Stereo
There are fireworks at the Bull.
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Reporter Robin Lustig. Producer Louise Hibbins
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. Presented by Peter White.
Producer Thena Heshel
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Stereo (Revised repeat of4.05pm)
with Roger White. Stereo
with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo
Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm. Part 5. Stereo
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