The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
with Canon
Myrtle Langley. stereo
Presented by Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.
Three different views of animals in the BBC's
Sound Archives.
3: The traveller Christina Dodwell remembers some of her own adventures with animals.
Producer Simon Elmes
with Melvyn Bragg and guests.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
Ecclesiastes
Robert Stephens reads the second of two parts from the Authorised
Version.
Abridged by Doreen Mahon Producer Ned Chaillet
Presented by Jenni Murray.
Which companies are best to work for if you're a woman? Scarlett MccGwire cracks the glass ceilings. (Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW)
Serial: Backlash by Paula Gosling. Eighth of 12 episodes read by Peter Marinka. Abridged by Meg Clarke
Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman
Presented by Vincent Duggleby.
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Presented by John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
Ned Sherrin conducts three more contestants through a difficult score of musical questions in the fourth heat of the wide-ranging quiz. ProducerGareth Edwards
Stereo
Presented by Nick Clarke.
Editor Roger Mosey
The 1988 Gold Dagger award-winning crime novel by Michael Dibdin. Stereo
John Humphrys talks to four people who have weathered major storms in their careers.
2: Nick Davies , foreign editor of the Daily Mirror, sacked after accusations of arms dealing. Producer Brian King
Paul Vaughan meets pianist Annette Servadei , who revived her playing career after she underwent open-heart surgery; John Harle plays his saxophone on a new
CD; and Michael Billington previews Radio 3's new play by Howard Barker , which can be heard tomorrowat9.25pm.
Producer Sally Marmion. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
Cometh Comet by Herman Charles Bosman.
"We could see, of course, that the star was an omen.
But we did not know what sort of omen it was.
Read by Jack Klaff. Producer Adrian Bean
Presented by Valerie Singleton and James Part. Editor Kevin Marsh
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Stereo
It's decision time for Lizzie.
Do terror, suspense and horror make suitable bedtime reading for children? Jan Mark and Aidan Chambers send shivers up Michael Rosen 's spine. Producer Jill Burridge
Zelda's labour is to be induced by a wonderful new machine. As things go wrong, Zelda's imagination takes over. An adaptation by Elizabeth Baines of her own satirical novel.
(Stereo)
The third of six talks based on the prison journals of John Williams.
"The guy Robbie killed was gay. So many of the boys I've met have killed what threatened them most and thrown years of their own life down the drain....
Producer Chris Paling. Stereo
Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
Presented by Roger White. Stereo
Presented by Robin Lustig.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
The Blindfold Horse
Shusha Guppy reads from her memories of a Persian childhood, adapted in ten parts.
6: Neighbours
Abridged by Christopher Logue Producer Jane Robinson. Stereo
Classic comedy from the 70s with John Cleese , Tim Brooke-Taylor , Graeme Garden , Bill Oddie , David Hatch and Jo Kendall. Producers David Hatch and Peter Titheradge
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