The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

with the Rt Rev Peter Firth.

Presented by Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rev
Dr Donald English.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

The real-life dramas of a small rural community. The last of the series presented by Nigel Farrell. First-night nerves for Annette and the cast of the village pantomime. Producer Chns Paling

Proverbs
Hannah Gordon and David Suchet read the first of three selections from the Authorised Version.

from the North.
What does it take to act heroically? Or is the male notion of heroism just another puffed-up male myth? Christa Ackroyd tries to find real heroes or heroines.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
Eustace and Hilda (9)

Presented by Jessica Holm.
Producer John Ruthven

Sales Talk
John Howard continues the inside story of selling.
This week: selling God - how charities and the church are learning the tricks of the selling trade. Producer David Harvey

with Derek Cooper. Producers Sheila Dillon and Marie Helly

with Nick Clarke.

The Betrothed
The last of a four-part dramatisation of Alessandro Manzoni 's novel.
The Plague
Stereo (Broadcaston Saturday at 7.50pm)

BBC correspondents at home and abroad report on one of the main British or foreign topics in this week's news.
Producers Carole Lacey and Howard Rogers

First there was the game, then came the craze, and now the books. Can reading survive or even be promoted by the invasion of the Nintendo? Plus: tales of the sea and seafaring life have an enduring appeal.
Nigel Forde joins Captain John Coote on a voyage through fictional seas. Producers Abigail Appleton and Mira Degenek

Tim Marlow sees the work of potter Lucy Rie, the doyenne of British ceramicists and now approaching her 90th birthday; and is at the first night of The Prince and the Goosegirlby the English National Opera.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Stereo

I'll Never Know by A L Barker.
An antiques journalist is exploring some beautiful and rare panels in an old country house in Sussex. But she discovers more than a passing connection between their artistry and meaning and herself.
Read by Angela Thorne. Producer Enyd Williams Stereo

with Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.

with Janet Trewin.
This week: snow and ice driving in Norway. Producer Jill Thomas

A compromising position for Jennifer.
Written by Graham Harvey

This week's panel:

Janet Cohen, merchant banker and novelist; Ken Livingstone, MP; Alan Watkins, political columnist, the Observer; Ann Widdecombe, MP, minister at the Department of Social Security. From Grantham, Lincolnshire.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby.

Marcel Berlins 's weekly look at the developments in the law and how they affect our lives.
Producer Sallie Davies

The proposed cuts to the United States defence budget, and the wide spectrum of reactions from both Republicans and Democrats, discussed by Alistair Cooke.

Levinson's Touch
Barry Levinson 's career as a film director has included such milestones as Diner, the Oscar-laden Rain Man and, shortly, his much-heralded Bugsywith Warren Beatty. Nigel Andrews traces Levinson's progress.
Stereo (Broadcaston Saturday at 7.20pm)

by Alistair Cooke.

with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo

The South by Colm Toibin. Final part. Stereo

A look back at the week's news with Bill Wallis ,
Sally Grace , David Tate and Jon Glover.
Producer Gareth Edwards. Stereo

with Nigel Cassidy. Stereo