The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with Rev John Humphreys.
Presented by Brian Redhead and John Humphrys.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Umar Hegedus.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament.
Presented by Libby Purves.
Producer Bridget Osborne
Ezekiel
Read in sixepisodes by Paul Scofield.
1: The WatchmanIntroduced by DrJohnDrane.
Abridged by Barbara Henderson Producer David Benedictus
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Aftermath is an organisation for the families of "lifers".
Alison Hilliard meets some of its members who .are trying to come to terms with crime committed by a loved one.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
According to Mark (8)
A postbag edition, chaired by Clay Jones , with Dr Stefan Buczacki , Fred Downham and Daphne Ledward.
with Debbie Thrower.
A five-part dramatisation of Agatha Christie's novel.
Lord Edgware has been murdered at his house in Regent Gate and Inspector Japp suspects Lady Edgware of the crime.
Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie.
In Peter Stafford 's domestic comedy, young
Lizzie spends hours locked in the garden shed.
It's hard playing the greats of world cricket, even in your head, but it's even harder growing up in stifling small-town England.
Director Dave Sheasby. Stereo
In the third of four programmes, Paul Hyland continues his journey up the River Congo, into
Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness.
Producer Alec Reid
A File on 4 special.
A radio portrait in conversation, recollection and anecdote.
Producer Howard Rogers
Nigel Andrews is at the new films, including Spanish director
Pedro Almodovar 's High
Heels; the poet Peter Porter is the studio guest; and Ra Ra Zoo display new circus tricks.
Producer Quentin Cooper. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
Not Yet Jayette by William Boyd.
"Most mornings, early, I go down to the beach at Santa Monica to try and meet
Christopher Isherwood. A guy I know told me he likes to walk his dog down there before the beach freaks and surfers show up."
Read by Garrick Hagon. Producer Duncan Minshull
with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes.
Fraser demands cash on the nail ... or else!
A series of talks for Lent. Today Baroness Warnock describes the reaction of an establishment figure to the disturbing teaching of Jesus. Producer Johnston McKay
Stories, Dreams and FablesIn the last of the present series, Rosemary Hartill explores the changing relationship between God and the poets through the work of the Scottish poet Edwin Muir.
Producer Amanda Hancox Stereo
Take a P45, Ms Jones In Sweden they promote them, in Britain we make them redundant.
Nigel Cassidy discovers why the office secretary is fast becoming an endangered species.
Producer Neil Koenig. Stereo
Stereo
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Nigel Cassidy. Stereo
with Robin Lustig. Stereo
Blazing Paddles by Brian Wilson.
3: Machair and Traigh
Six features in which
Edward Blishen takes a personal look at radio, TV and theatrical events which touched the national nerve....
1: Hanging the Silk Hat on the Siren
The wartime comedy show ITMA leapt out of airwaves, offering an imprisoned population half an hour of anarchic pleasure.
