Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with Sister Lavinia Byrne, IBVM.
(Stereo)
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.
Inventors
Eureka! - It's Professor
Heinz Wolff with some brilliant brains and eccentric eggheads from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer Penny Lawrence
with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown . Stereo
Jeremiah Alan Bates reads the second of sevenepisodes from the Authorised
Version.
Abridged by Barbara Henderson Producer Ned Chaillet
Christa Ackroyd meets the novelist Penelope Lively , author of today's new serial, According to Mark.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm on LW) Serial:
According to Mark by Penelope Lively.
The first of 12 episodes read by Ronald Pickup. Mark Lamming is a biographer. One spring morning he leaves London for Dorset to research his latest subject: the Victorian writer Gilbert Strong. There he meets Strong's granddaughter, and as the year progresses he comes to question not only his own and Strong's life, but biography itself. Abridged by Monica Grey
Music: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge by Benjamin Britten. Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman
with John Howard.
Ned Sherrin conducts the wide-ranging music quiz, with questions on anything from Bach to the Beatles.
Today's programme comes from Bristol. Producer Gareth Edwards Stereo
with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey
In Christopher Denys 's comedy, craftsmanship and pride in good work are taking a hammering from income tax and VAT - but the eponymous Wally is at hand.
Director Tony Cliff. Stereo
In the last of the series, Ian Hislop attempts to convince Clive Anderson that Satan in Milton's
Paradise Lost was not bad, but misunderstood.
Producer Kate Boston
Sue MacGregor meets
Detective Chief Inspector Jackie Malton , community liaison officer for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, to talk about her life and work.
Producer Gillian Hush
Robert Dawson-Scott is in Liverpool for Beryl
Bainbridge's play An
Awfully Big Adventure. He also profiles the jazz maestro Dizzy Gillespie.
Producer Quentin Cooper. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
Kolberg by Christopher Burns.
When a young couple buy a barge to start a new life together, the discovery of an old manuscript throws a disturbing light on their love.
Read by Bill Nighy. Producer Adrian Bean
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge. Editor Kevin Marsh
A testing time for Lizzie.
with Michael Rosen. Including a look at book prizes. Producer Jill Burridge
Fields of Grey, Marching
Set in 1916 after the battle of the Somme, this is a dark story of the power of memory and guilt, and of the fear and misuse of the world of the occult.
Written by Mike Walker.
Music by Jeremy Taylor.
Trumpet Mike Harrison. ; Director Marilyn Imrie. Stereo
Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White. Stereo
with Robin Lustig.
Editor Margaret Budy. Stereo
A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin.
The last ofsixepisodes, read by Celia Imrie. Abridged by Catherine Czerkawska Producer Sue Wilson
Classic comedy with Kenneth Home, Kenneth Williams , Hugh Paddick , Betty Marsden ,
Bill Pertwee and The Fraser Hayes Four.
Script Eric Merriman
Producer John Simmonds
