The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter

A meditation for the beginning of a new day with Canon Jim Monroe.

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.

The second of three programmes recalling great radio shows of the past.
Educating
Archie Beryl Reid looks back to the time when she played
Monica, Archie's classmate. Producer Julian May

with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo

Judges. Read from the Authorised Version in seven episodes by Ian Hogg.
4: The Downfall of Abimelech
Abridged by Andrew Simpson Producer David Benedictus

withjenni Murray.
Pornography, according to many feminists, is the key to women's oppression. But can it also be a liberation?
Elizabeth Wilson bares her views.
Serial: The Sixth Heaven, Book Two of LP Hartley's Eustace and Hilda.
It is now 1919, the First World War has come and gone. Hilda is now running a children's clinic, and Eustace is up at Oxford. The first of 11 episodes read by Alan Bennett. Abridged by Anne Rees Jones Music: Amy Beach's Romance Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman

Vincent Duggleby and two experts take your calls on social security and other state benefits.
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with John Howard.

The last in a six-part series celebrating 150 years of Punch magazine.
Featuring Leslie Phillips , Michaeljayston,
Angela Thorne and Eve Matheson. Introduced by Simon Hoggart.
Adapted by Bill Matthews
Producer Diane Messias. Stereo

withjames Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey

by Julian Symons.
Stereo

Sue MacGregor goes to Derbyshire to meet
Eric Wilkes , emeritus professor of community care and general practice at
Sheffield University, to talk about his life and work.
Producer Gillian Hush

Natalie Wheen visits
Huddersfield's Contemporary Music Festival for Robert Saxton 's new opera Caritas and other highlights of the festival; the paintings of L S Lowry receive a major exhibition at Manchester's City Art Gallery; and best-selling author George V Higgins talks about the art of the crime writer.
Producer JohnGoudie. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

In the Withaak's Shade by Herman Charles Bosman. The shade of the withaak tree is a relief from the burning South African sun, for man.... and leopard. Read by Jack Klaff. producer Adrian Bean

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh

Stereo

Phil is not looking forward to his hospital appointment.

Today's programme tests the assertion that the poor in Britain do not eat well, and looks at how the supermarkets may have an influence. Presented by Derek Cooper.

Stranger in the Tea Leaves
A new Welsh comedy inspired by Nikolai Gogol's classic Russian play The Government Inspector.
Some things are the same the whole world over - corruption, hypocrisy, lust and laughter.
Written by William Ingram.
Music Laurie Scott Baker
Director Jane Dauncey. Stereo

The first of four programmes in which
Jenni Mills traces critical periods in family life and talks to families about how they weathered the crisis. On 22 August 1985,
Damien, Debbie and two friends boarded a flight for Corfu at Manchester
Airport. The plane never made it off the runway. Fire and choking fumes spread through the passenger cabin. Damien and Debbie escaped. Their friends didn't.
Producer Sarah Rowlands

Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Nigel Cassidy. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

What Hetty Did by JL Carr.
Number Twenty Seven
Thefourthof ten episodes read by Hetty Baynes. Abridged by Neville Teller
Producer Marilyn Imrie

The RadioActive team with another selection of their past triumphs. Stereo