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

with the Rev
Michael Lawson.

with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.

The last of three programmes recalling great radio shows. Beyond Our
Ken Bill Pertwee remembers his role in the comedy show that was a forerunner to Round the Horne.
Producer Tim Suter

with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Manna Salandy-Brown
Stereo
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ISamuel
The first of five episodes read from the Authorised
Version by Robert Powell. Introduced by the Rev Dr Trevor Dennis.
Abridged by Gareth Gwyn Jones Director Niall Fraser

with Jenni Murray .
Karen Deco talks to couples who have had a final baby after a very long gap.
Serial: The Sixth Heaven, Book two of L P Hartley's Eustace and Hilda.
The sixth of 11 episodes read by Alan Bennett. Abridged by Anne Rees Jones Editors Clare Selene and Sally Feldman

with Vincent Duggleby.
Lines Open from 10.00am

with Debbie Thrower.
Editor Ken Vass

The return of the musical panel game. John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden. In the chair Steve Race.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo

with Nick Clarke.
Editor Roger Mosey

"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

Sue MacGregor meets
Janey Buchan , Member of the European Parliament for Glasgow, to talk about her life and work.
Producer Gillian Hush

Natalie Wheen meets the authors and illustrators of the ecologically-minded children's book Ronnie the Red-Eyed Tree Frog, and looks forward to other children's reading for Christmas; and there's a roundup of recent record releases.
Producer Anthony Denselow
Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Monsieur Oufle
A Victorian translation of a 17th-century story byL'AbbeBourdelot.
The farcical history of the superstitious and weak-headed Monsieur Oufle who believes he has been bewitched and turned into a werewolf.
Read by Timothy Bateson. Translated by the Rev Sabine Baring-Gould
Producer Sarah Kilgarriff

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
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There's news from the hospital for Phil.

So you think you might like to own a pub? Is it all olde worlde bonhomie - or a hard slog, with marital troubles guaranteed?
John Roberts investigates. With Derek Cooper.

Following on from his Giles Cooper Award-winner The Pope's Brother, Steve Walker's play shows Captain "Titus" Oates in the year 2065, alive and thawing out in the Antarctic. What will the old-fashioned explorer think of an England laid waste by drought and famine, where everyone speaks with an American accent?
(Stereo)

Four programmes in which Jenni Mills traces critical periods in family life and talks to families about how they weathered the crisis. 2: Mike and Margaret have been married for 30 years. Last summer, Margaret discovered that for the past six years Mike had been having an affair with her best friend.
Producer Sarah Rowlands

Stereo (Revised repeat ' of 4.05pm)

Stereo

with Robin Lustig.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

What Hetty Did byJL Carr .
/ Meet My Mother Again The ninth often episodes read by Hetty Baynes . Abridged by Neville Teller
Producer Marilyn Imrie

The Radio Activeteam with another selection of their past triumphs. Stereo