Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
with Canon Peter Ball.
with Chris Lowe and Peter Hobday. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.
This week:
Agony in the Archive Agony Uncle
Philip Hodson listens to sound advice from some Aunties.
Producer Penny Lawrence
from Prague, with Melvyn Bragg and Judy Dempsey of The Financial Times, and guests including Zuzanna Bluh ,
Deputy Director General of the Czechoslovak News
Agency, and entrepreneur Martin Kratochvil.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
Isaiah
The 13th of 16 parts read by David Neal.
Abridged by Yvonne Antrobus Producer Philip Martin
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Why don't women rate at pinball? Libby Spurrier tests the score.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen.
The 11 th of 16 episodes read by Juliet Stevenson. Abridged by Ann Rees Jones Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie
with Vincent Duggleby. •LINES OPEN from 10.00am
Ned Sherrin presents the seventh heat of the quiz that covers everything from Baroque to Punk Rock.
Producer Gareth Edwards
Stereo
with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey
Amid the frenzy of gathering new wealth in the 1980s, Malcolm and Liz also acquire a vast old house infested with strange, inexplicable sounds and voices.
Written by Guy Meredith.
Director Ned Chaillet
Stereo
The third of six programmes.
Irma Kurtz is convinced that Lady Macbeth had a heart of gold, but can she convince Clive Anderson that Shakespeare's archvillainess was not as bad as she has been bloodstained?
Producer Kate Boston
Sue MacGregor's first guest in a series 01 six programmes is South African-bom actress and director Janet Suzman. Producer Gillian Hush
Robert Dawson-Scott meets author
Nicholson Baker , whose latest characters in Vox become intimately involved on the phone; and the Canadian kora player Daniel Janke is the studio guest.
Producer Julian May Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
The Proposal by Peter Regent.
Marry Sally? Not yet, surely. But then eccentric fathers, snooping landladies and obsessive neighbours represent a world that must be escaped ...
Read by Trevor Nichols. Producer Duncan Minshull
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains
Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren and their guests. Stereo
Time for a sharp exit for Nigel!
Introduced by Michael Rosen. Award-winning author Jill Paton-Walsh talks about her books for children. Producer Jill Burridge.
George Orwell's novel about the scandal which rocked a small town when, following an encounter with an elderly free thinker, the clergyman's daughter suddenly disappeared.
(Stereo)
The final talk based on the prison journals of John Williams.
Producer Chris Paling. Stereo
Stereo. (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White. Stereo
with Robin Lustig. Stereo
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin.
The first of six episodes, read by Celia Imrie.
Abridged by Catherine Czerkawska Producer Sue Wilson
Classic comedy from the 70s with John Cleese , Tim Brooke-Taylor ,
Graeme Garden , Bill Oddie , David Hatch and Jo Kendall. Producers David Hatch and John Cassels
