Permaculture takes off in India; rabbits improve farm incomes in China; and fisheries benefit the landless of Bangladesh.
With George Macpherson. Producer David Dixon

with James Whitbourn.

with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
7.20 Listeners' Letters
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Fr John McDade
Editor Philip Harding

with Cliff Morgan. Producer Rob Nothman

with Ken Bruce.
Producer Sara Jane Hall
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Ned Sherrin hosts an hour of live interjections from the likes of Robert Elms, Victoria Mather and The Men Who Know.
Producer Ian Gardhouse. Stereo

with Michael White.
Producer Dennis Sewell

BBC correspondents around the world give a personal view of their host countries.
Producer Geoff Spink

with Louise Botting. Producer Ann Gilmartin

Last in the present series. Panel: Clement Freud ,
Peter Jones , Derek Nimmo and Wendy Richard.
Chairman Nicholas Parsons.
Producer Sarah Smith. Stereo

The panel includes:
Rt Hon Baroness Seear, Jack Straw , MP, and Janet Daley. From Manchester.
Chairman
Jonathan Dimbleby. and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]with Jonathan Dimbleby. Producers Anna Carragher and LucyCacanas
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The British Bulldog
The war in Europe is over, and the regulars in the Wellington are planning how to celebrate the peace. It all turns out not quite as they expected. Written by Christopher Denys.
Director Tony Cliff. Stereo

with Barry Cunliffe.
In 191 7 Josef Stalin , then Commissar of Nationalities, argued that if the Ukraine attempted to break away from the Union it would lead to "fratricidal bloodshed of the peoples". Recently, Mikhail Gorbachev expressed similar fears.
Harold Shukman tells John Miller about the tragic past of the newly independent state which accounts for a fifth of Russia's agricultural and industrial production. And, as investigations into the troubled Maxwell empire continue,
Christopher Cook recalls Horatio Bottomley - MP, newspaper tycoon and "wheeler-dealer".
Producer John Knight

with Peter Evans.
Producer Mike Greenwood

The last of the series in which Sara Parker meets people who do other people's jobs.
The Supply Teachers
The most chilling words a supply teacher can hear:
"Oh Miss, we've donelhis." Producer Sukey Firth

Simon Hoggart and friends return with a satirical look at life. Producer Brian King

and Sports Round-Up

with Sally Grace , David Tate , Alistair McGowan and Dan Strauss.
Stereo

Robert Robinson and guests return with more animated table talk inspired by current public and private preoccupations.
Producer Michael Ember. Stereo

More Caribbean Than Ever
Christopher Columbus, and the colonisers who followed him to the Caribbean 500 years ago, created there one of the most richly varied cultures anywhere in the world.
Lucy Duran visits a music festival in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, which invited musicians from all over the Caribbean islands and mainland to look for the Caribbean identity running through the music, from rumba and rock to salsa.
Producer Nicki Paxman. Stereo
(Repeated on Friday at 9.1 5pm)

Buddenbrooks: The
Decline of a Family Thomas Mann 's novel, adapted insixepisodes.
2: Consul Buddenbrook is determined that his daughter Tony will marry a man he admits is no beau
- but the match would be highly advantageous for the family and the firm.
Narrator Charles Simpson.
Translated by H Lowe-Porter Adapted by John Peacock
Director Jane Morgan. 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.

Presented by Brian Kay.
Producer Sarah Devonald. Stereo

led by Canon
Grahamjames. Stereo

What do you call a seasick cinema projectionist with an inadequate screwdriver who parachuted into occupied France and escaped with a top secret German radar?
Charlie Cox called himself a "bloody hero"... Producer Ian Bell

The second of five talks.
David Bean arrives in Belgium on the first stage of his travels in the footsteps of Mrs Frances Trollope, who in 1833 wrote a book about her visit.

with David James , Gordon Jones , John Potter and Rogers Covey-Crump, four members of the Hilliard Ensemble.
Stereo

The fifth of six programmes written by and starring comedian Nick Revell.
With Alistair McGowan.
Caroline Gruber ,
Brian Bowles , Doon Mackichan and Alison Sterling.
Producer Jon Magnusson. Stereo