Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Vicky Cosstick.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament.
John. Part 2.
What's the best way to be a wronged wife? Ivana Trump shares her strategy with Jenni Murray.
Serial: Family Money (3)
with Debbie Thrower.
In this month of the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio, Frank Muir and Alfred Marks skip through the comic literature of The
Environment, making notes in the margin of jokes, quotes, newspaper clippings and recorded humour from Michael Bentine , Lily Tomlin ,
Flanders and Swann, Bob Newhart and Tom Lehrer.
"Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long" (Ogden Nash ). Producer Richard Edis
Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie.
In Robert Lord 's comedy, three genteel bridge-playing Edinburgh ladies have their noses fairly put out of joint by the arrival of the spirited - and unmarried - Iris.
Director Stewart Conn Stereo
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad.
Sue Nelson investigates how intermediate technology offers simple solutions to complex problems at home and abroad in the second of 12 programmes.
Producer James Clarke
Nigel Andrews visits
London's East End where another art gallery opens; views the vast collection of photos taken by the family of the last Czar; and reviews the films The Playboys and The Lawnmower Man. Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
Malgr6toute Written by Lawrence Scott.
Life on a run-down sugar plantation frustrates Mr Wainwright. Promotion? Well, he'll have to inherit dead man's shoes....
Read by Sean Barrett. Producer Duncan Minshull
with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes.
Stereo
Shula is doing the inventory.
The second episode in a series of fourprogrammes looking at the pleasures, pitfalls and personalities of four musical instruments through the eyes of the people who play, carry, make or mend them. The Organ "It's a tiger.... it has great potential strength. But it's also a cat with a sensitive, stroking kind of feel." Producer Emma Kingsley
Conversations with people who, when younger, were radical thinkers. Now they are older, have they changed their spots? Using their personal archives David Walker explores how views change over time.
2: Dr Richard Clutterbuck. Producer Mary Price
In a series of fourprogrammes Jenni Mills reveals the personal stories behind some of the headlines of the last few years.
3: Thirty-six hours after giving birth to her first baby, 20-year-old Dawn Griffiths handed her daughter over to a woman posing as a health visitor in the hospital.
Baby Alexandra was missing for over two weeks.
Producer Sarah Rowlands Stereo
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White. Stereo
with Alexander MacLeod. Stereo
Picnic at Hanging Rock Part 3.
A panorama of British India recorded by some of those people who lived in it.
5: The Heavenborn: the Indian Civil Service
"All us soldiers know our men and their mothers and fathers and so on, but the ICS fellow knows entire provinces, villages, what their troubles are, if the rains don't come or if so-and-so has pinched his mother's cousin's brother's field; they know it all...." Presented by Evan Charlton.
Producer Michael Mason
(Revised repeat)