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

with Michael Shoesmith.

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

Melvyn Bragg and team select highlights from this year's programmes. Stereo

Chronicles. Part 3.

from the Vaudeville
Theatre in London.
Jenni Murray celebrates the art of character acting with Maureen Lipman ,
Ruth Madoc , Celia Imrie , Fidelis Morgan ,
June Whitfield , Morwenna Banks and Mandie Fletcher. Producer Mary Sharp

Stereo

4: For Alan Titchmarsh , flowers take second place to floppy discs.
Stereo (Dr David Owen , tomorrow at 12 noon)

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

withjames Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey

A light-hearted look at what the British have said about the Americans - and vice versa - over the years. With Hector Elizondo ,
Martinjarvis, Madeline Kahn , Joanna Lumley , Prunella Scales ,
Sam Wanamaker , Paul Winfield and Tom Garvin (piano). Presented at Irvine University as part of the Festival of Britain,
Orange County, California. Director Martin Jenkins Stereo

A compilation of memories and voices overheard by Martyn Wiley , who sits for Jack Ellis , high street photographer in Goldthorpe, nearBarnsley.
Producer Dave Sheasby Stereo

Taking his cue from E.M. Forster's famous epigraph, Professor Akbar Ahmed talks to six people from the Indian subcontinent who have influence and eminence in Britain.
1: Lord Desai of St Clement Danes
Labour peer, Marxist economist, cricket enthusiast and Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.
Producer Manna Salandy-Brown Stereo

Natalie Wheen reflects on the musical highs and lows of 1991, a year that celebrated Mozart and Malcolm Arnold and lost Miles Davis and Freddie Mercury.
Producer Julian May. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Alan by Richard Boston.
Read by Tony Robinson. Producer Susan Roberts

with Valerie Singleton. Editor Kevin Marsh

Introducing Mr Dollfuss Part3.TomSharpe continues the story.
(Tomorrow: Terence Blacker continues the story)

Stereo

Tony bottles out of a good deed.

Al Hunter's new comedy of love and war set in the Russo-Japanese conflict. Andrei's job is to write reports about fictional successes from the front. When these are believed at home he accidentally becomes a hero overnight....
(Stereo)

More stories from a marriage, written and read by Leonard Barras.

Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Heather Payton. A special edition from Berlin on the problems created by the integration of eastern Germany's ailing economy.
Producer Stephen Chilcott. Stereo

with Robin Lustig.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov. 2: The Steel Windpipe Stereo (Details last Friday)

The first of five episodes from the archives starring Tony Hancock.
The Christmas Club written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
With Sidney James, Hugh Morton, Wilfred Babbage, Frank Partington and Wally Stott and his Orchestra.
Producer Tom Ronald
(First broadcast in 1959)

One of the masterpieces of medieval alliterative poetry, set in the court of King Arthur. Read in five episodes by Nigel Forde. Translated by Brian Stone Abridged and produced by Amanda Hancox. Stereo

The first in a three-part series about the life of Countess Elizabeth Tyskiewicz, now Mrs Elizabeth Carroll, the mother of the actress Rula Lenska.
(Stereo)
(Part 2 Wednesday 11. 45pm)