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

with The Rt Rev
Peter Firth , the Bishop of Malmesbury.

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor. Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Dr Colin Morris.

In the first of two programmes about "access" radio, Paul Donovan forages in the BBC Sound Archives to discover the ways in which the public have got themselves onto the airwaves.
Producer Hamish Mykura. Stereo

with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo

The Gospel of Mark
Read in seven episodes by Juliet Stevenson from the Revised English Bible. 4: The Transfiguration. Abridged by Michael Carroll Producer Christine Morgan

with Jenni Murray.
Should children with special needs have the right to attend the school of their choice?
Karen Deco reports.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
Coroner's Pidgin
By Margery Allingham. Fifth of 13 episodes read by Jeremy Nicholas. Abridged by Pat McLoughlin Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie

[number removed]with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Ann Gilmartin
•LINES OPEN from 10.00am

with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass

A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listeners compete to become this year's Brain of Britain. Chairman Robert Robinson.
First Round - London and the Home Counties.
Anthony Richmond (clerk); Mike Billson (retired milkman); Peter Grant (charity director); Mike Chivers (bank officer).
Including Beat the Brains, in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants.
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo

with James Naughtie.

The 1940s Broadway hit by Franz Werfel , adapted by S N Behrman.
An aristocratic Polish colonel needs help to flee to London through occupied France with secret documents and his young French sweetheart.
Music composed and realised by Eldad Lidor
Adapted for radio and directed by Eran Baniel. Stereo

The fourth of six episodes in a round-robin series of biographers in conversation. Philip Hoare talks to Rebecca Fraser about her work on Charlotte Bronte and Florence Nightingale. Producer Ed Thomason

Natalie Wheen discovers some tips on how to help singers get auditions; author and illustrator Maurice Sendak is the studio guest; and the Lindsay String Quartet premiere a new work by Sir Michael Tippett. Producer Belinda Sample
Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

Scarab by Ian Rankin
A black Egyptian pendant holds the key to a 40-year mystery that begins with a birth.... and a death.
Read by Crawford Logan. Producer Bruce Young

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.

Stereo

Another shock at
Brookfield.

Phil Smith on making the most of your sunset years. 6: Better dead than shed.

A Frozen Stream
Called Wounded Knee
In 1890 in South Dakota, a dream was shattered. In
1990 Luta confronts the truth about a people who faced extinction.
John Pilkington 's play recounts the refusal of the Lakota people to die out.
Music: Stuart Gordon
Producer Andy Jordan. Stereo

Stereo
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw. Stereo

Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd.
The sixth of ten episodes, read by Ian Hogg.
More corpses are found in city churches to puzzle Detective
Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Abridged by Aubrey Woods
Producer Michael Fox. Stereo

The penultimate episode in the series of the epic adventure in time and space, written by Douglas Adams.
Fit the eleventh
The heroes do a lot of running and digging.
Arthur: "Don't ask me how it works, or I'll start to whimper".
Producer Geoffrey Perkins Stereo