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

A meditation for the beginning of a new day with Fr Wilfrid McGreal.

Presented by John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.

In the first of two programmes in which people present their views on topics close to their heart, architect Roderick Gradidge puts the case against modernist architecture, using evidence culled from the BBC Sound Archive. Producer Penelope Gibbs

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

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Robert Powell reads the first of four episodes from the Authorised Version. Abridged by Gareth Gwyn Jones Director Niall Fraser

Jenni Murray live from
The Clothes Show exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham. Serial: The Sixth Heaven Book Two of L P Hartley's Eustace and Hilda. The final part read by Alan Bennett. Abridged by Anne Rees Jones Music: Amy Beach's Romance Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman
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with Vincent Duggleby. • LINES OPEN from 10.00am

with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass

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 in London, and James Naughtie in Maastricht.
Editor Roger Mosey

In Rider Haggard's adventure story, Allan Quatermain crosses scorching desert and freezing mountain in search of the fabulous treasure of King Solomon.
Music Barrington Pheloung. Dramatised by Peter Mackie
(Stereo)

Sue MacGregor meets the concert pianist Imogen Cooper to talk about her life and work. ProducerGillian Hush

Paul Vaughan meets some of the writers and samples a selection from The Field Day Anthology of Irish
Writing; Scottish harpist Savourna Stevenson provides the live music; while a selection of classical recordings are tipped as last-minute Christmas presents.
Producer Beaty Rubens. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Leonardo's Horse by Thomas Kane.
"Over the years I grew to hate both gambling and alcohol, but my father's fascination for horses stayed with me. Another thing I remember was his love for the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. ..."
Read by Jimmy Chisholm. Producer David Jackson Young

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
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Stereo

It's Usha's first day at Hebden and Gupta.

Presented by Derek Cooper.

The Year of Miracle and Grief
Leonid Borodin , a Russian dissident, was born in 1938 on the shores of Lake
Baikal in Siberia. He tells a story of his childhood that many might regard as a fairy tale. But he insists that it is true.
Dramatised by Nick McCarty Director Shaun MacLoughlin Stereo

Four programmes in which Jenni Mills traces critical periods in family life and talks to families about how they weathered the crisis. 3: "Virtually anybody who walked through the door would have a baby, a bottle and a nappy thrown at them and be told to get on with it." Six years ago Jill gave birth to triplets.
Producer Sarah Rowlands

Stereo (Revised repeat of4.05pm)

Presented by Roger White. Stereo

Presented by Robin Lustig.
Editor Margaret Budy Stereo

Love and Death on Long Island by Gilbert Adair.
The fourth of five parts read by John Carlisle. Abridged by Polly Coles Producer Clive Brill

The Radio Active team present another selection of their past triumphs. Stereo