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

with the Very Rev Dr Bill McDonald.

with Peter Hobday 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 first of three programmes.
The Wind of Change
Anthony Howard looks back at Harold MacMillan 's famous speech in 1960. ProducerMarkSavage

with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Manna Salandy-Brown Stereo

Esther. The final part read from the Authorised
Version by Eleanor Bron. Abridged by Roger Pine Producer Sarah Kilgarriff

Breast Cancer Campaign One in 12 women in Britain suffers from breast cancer.
There is now a national screening programme for all women between the ages of 50 and 64. But does it save lives? And if you do have the disease, what are the best treatments? Jenni Murray launches a week of personal experiences and expert advice on all aspects of breast cancer, with Dr Joan Austoker , director of Cancer Research Campaign (Oxford).
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial: Occasion for Loving by Nadine Gordimer.
The eighth of 13 episodes read by Janet Suzman. Abridged by Jack Singleton
Editors Sally Feldman , Clare Selene 0 FREE. CONFIDENTIAL HELPLINE: for more information about any aspect of breast cancer. phone [number removed]
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2.00pm and 8.00- 10.00pm

with Vincent Duggleby. ● LINES OPEN from 10.00am

with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass

John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden.
In the chair Steve Race.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo

with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey

In N C Hunter's 1953 play, the loves, hopes and fears of a Dorset family are explored over a few short hours.
With Wendy Hiller and Michael Hordem.
Adapted by Mollie Greenhalgh
Director Graham Gauld. Stereo

Professor Akbar Ahmed talks to six people from the Indian subcontinent who have influence in Britain. 3:JatinderVerma
Artistic Director of Tara
Arts, a leading Asian theatre company, and playwright. Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo

Natalie Wheen reports on Donizetti's opera Don Pasqualeperiormed by Welsh National Opera; and meets the players from the Michael Feinstein music group.
Producer Belinda Sample. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Leaving Doyle's Cross by Frank Ronan.
Read by Sorcha Cusack. Producer Duncan Minshull

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.

Stereo

There's no rest for the NSM.

with Michael Rosen. Ways of Telling Jill Burridge talks to authors, teachers and librarians at the first Arts Council conference on children's literature. Editor Sally Feldman

Pygmies in the Ruins Radio Theatre 1992: the first of an occasional series of radio plays presented in association with leading theatres.
Ron Hutchinson 's play, which opened last November at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, is set simultaneously in Belfast of 1991 and 1871. Harry Washburn is a police "scene-of-the-crime" photographer, for whom 20 years of visual carnage has meant increasing mental instability and a compulsion to uncover the truth behind a murder that occurred 120 years before. Harry Washburn SEAN SCANLAN
Boy soprano Niall Keatley Music Stephanie Hughes
Director Eoin O'Callaghan. Stereo

Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

Presented by Nigel Cassidy. Stereo

Presented by Richard Kershaw.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo

Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler and Robert B Parker.
The second of eight parts read and abridged by William Roberts.
Producer Adrian Bean. Stereo

The third of five programmes from the archives starring Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Fenella Fielding, Fraser Kerr, Warren Mitchell and Wally Stott and his Orchestra.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Producer Tom Ronald
(First broadcast in 1959)