The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with the Rev
John Weir Cook.
Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.
• CASSETTE: Rabbi Blues 50 Thoughts for the Day, from retailers
The second of three programmes.
2: Edward Pearce considers Aneurin Be van's rejection of unilateral disarmament in 1957. Producer David Perry
with Melvyn Bragg and guests. j Producer Marina Salandy-Brown
Stereo
Do n iel. The last of five episodes read from the Authorised Version by Alec McCowen.
Abridged by Roger Pine Producer Sarah Kilgarriff
Jenni Murray meets screen legend Zsa Zsa Gabor.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
Occasion for Loving by Nadine Gordimer.
The last of 13 episodes read by Janet Suzman. Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman
Presented by Vincent Duggleby.
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Presented by Debbie Thrower.
Editor Ken Vass
Last in the present series 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
Presented by James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey
Another in the occasional series of dramatisations of Gold and Silver Dagger Award winning crime novels. Anthony Price's tale of treasure, treachery and unexpected romance stars John Stride as Dr David Audley and Paula Wilcox as Faith.
(Stereo)
Professor Akbar Ahmed talks to six people from the Indian subcontinent who have influence in Britain. 4: SwrajPaul
A steel magnate who has been in the forefront of the British engineering industry, and is founder of the Indo-British Association.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
Natalie Wheen looks ahead to the visit of American composer Philip Glass , and discusses the collected essays and criticism of John Updike - or, as he calls them, Odd Jobs. Producer Julian May
Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
The Devil, the Nun and the Tango Dancer by Michael Carson.
The Bordello de Libertad in Buenos Aires. Once there was a dancer with two daughters. One became a nun, the other followed mother. Then the devil intervened and all hell broke loose.
Read by Sean Barrett.
Producer Duncan Minshull
Presented by Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
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Stereo
Roger notices a few changes around Ambridge.
Presented by Michael Rosen.
Jenni Mills steps into the wardrobe to find out why C S Lewis's Narnia is still magical for today's children.
Producerjill Burridge
One-Way Ticket to Palookaville
It's late summer, 1990, and for shipyard welder Billy Hamsen it's a memorable one. Billy is a "traditional" working-class "commie", 1. and across the world there are serious changes to a system he has revered all his life.
Written by Michael Chaplin.
Billy Hamsen. ... CHRISTIAN RODSKA
Director Dave Sheasby. Stereo
Stereo (Revised repeat of4.05pm)
Presented by Nigel Cassidy. Stereo
Presented by Richard Kershaw.
Editor Margaret Budy Stereo
Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler and Robert B Parker.
The seventh of eight parts abridged and read by William Roberts.
Producer Adrian Bean. Stereo
The fourth of five programmes from the archives, starring Tony Hancock.
Hancock in Hospital written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. With Sidney James ,
Bill Kerr , Patricia Hayes ,
Joan Frank and Wally Stott and his Orchestra.
Producer Tom Ronald
(First broadcast in 1959) 0 CASSETTE: Hancock's Half
Hour 4, from retailers
