Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter

with the Rev David Winter.

with Peter Hobday and John Humphrys. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.

by Emily Eden.
I Felicity Kendal I reads from a selection of letters written home from India between
1837 and 1840. 1: Up the Ganges
Abridged by Elizabeth Proud Producer John Tydeman

with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer James Herbert. Stereo

Micah Anna Massey reads the second of two selections from the Authorised Version.
Abridged by Sandra Willingham Producer Elizabeth Taylor

With Jenni Murray.
Get Cracking! Each day this week, chef Raymond Blanc offers a fool's guide to the eggs-otic. 1: Souffle.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial: The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson.
The eighth of 11 episodes, read by Marie Collett. Abridged by Sally Skrimshire Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman

Vincent Duggleby takes your calls on how the Election result will affect your finances.
Producer Frances Macdonald
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with Debbie Thrower.

Ned Sherrin hosts the last semi-final.
Producer Gareth Edwards. Stereo

with James Naughtie.

David Bean 's comedy about a man retreating to the peace of the Borders turns to drama when he finds dark forces beneath the surface calm.
Director Tony Cliff. Stereo

Sue MacGregor goes to the Hackney Empire in London to talk to its director,
Roland Muldoon , about his life and work. Producer Gillian Hush

Tim Marlow finds out how the French have reacted to the arrival of EuroDisney; George Barber predicts what might follow the theme park as mass entertainment; and the big theatre opening in Paris this week is Twelfth Night directed by Jerome Savary. Producer Adrian Washbourne Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Another Holiday for the Prince by Elizabeth Jolley.
"My brother smoked and drank and coughed and watched telly with the blinds drawn...."
So Mother organises a trip to the sea.
Read by Susan Cumow. Producer David Hunter

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.

Stereo

Time for a truce on the farm.

No longer a spring chicken himself, Phil Smith - in the second of six programmes - offers a chirpy guide to making the most of your sunset years. Bad Company

The Snatch
In Gillian Richmond 's play Kate and Tina are both expecting babies.
Complete strangers, their lives will soon be linked and changed forever.
Director Sue Wilson. Stereo 0 DRAMA: page 4

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo

Love Is Blue by Joan Wyndham. The last of ten parts.

First of a six-part epic adventure in time and space, including some helpful advice on how to see the Universe on about 30 Altairian dollars a day. Written by Douglas Adams.
Producer Geoffrey Perkins. Stereo (First broadcast in 1978)

In the first of four programmes, the popular singer
Adelaide Hall , now in her late eighties, talks to
June Knox-Mawer about her early days in New York. She appeared in Broadway musicals like Shuffle Along and Chocolate Kiddies which was written by Duke Ellington .
Producer Derek Drescher