The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

with Akhandadhi Dasa.

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev
Dr Donald English.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament.

Chris Dunkley of The
Financial Times airs your letters and comments on BBC programmes and policy.
Producer Nadine Grieve
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Acts of the Apostles 4: The Word of God
Spreads.

From Birmingham. Introduced by Jenni Mills.
(Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
The Fireman's Fair (3)

Presented by Jessica Holm.
Producer Simon Roberts

with Debbie Thrower.

Presented by Derek Cooper.
Pesticides and poultry, fast-food and foie gras - the show that investigates the good, the bad and the tasteless.
Producers Sheila Dillon and Marie Helly

Presented by Nick Clarke.

Still Life
A four-part serialisation of award-winning writer A S Byatt's novels The Virgin in the Garden and Still Life dramatised by John Harvey.
1: A New Elizabethan Age. Yorkshire: 1952.
Frederica and Stephanie Potter share a passion for the beautiful Alexander Wedderbum , teacher at Blesford Ride Boys'
School, and author of Astraea, a new verse drama celebrating the first Elizabethan Age. In spite of strong competition,
Frederica intends to be his
Queen. Stereo

BBC correspondents at home and abroad report on one of the main British or foreign topics in this week's news.
Producers Carole Lacey and Howard Rogers

A June day in Dublin, as experienced by Leopold
Bloom, became the subject of James Joyce 's novel Ulysses. Nigel Forde explores Joyce's Dublin with the author of a new biography, Peter Costello. He also discusses contemporary Irish writing with authors John Banville , Clare Boylan and Colm Toibin , and visits poet Seamus Heaney to discover the books that have given him pleasure and inspiration.
Producer Sally Marmion. Stereo

Tim Marlow reports from the world exhibition of contemporary art in Kassel, Germany, and the 1992 Whitechapel Open in London, as well as reviewing the British premiere of John Guare 's play Six Degrees of Separation.
Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo

The Beggars by Donneil Kennedy.
"One day, before the last rains, when the mood of the city was a steam boiler at white heat, I got caught in a riot."
Read by Crawford Logan. Producer Bruce Young

with Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.

The transport programme with Janet Trewin. Producer Jill Thomas

Every silver lining has a cloud.
Written by Sam Jacobs
Stereo

From Sheffield.
The panel includes: John Prescott MP, Shadow Transport Spokesman. Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producer Nick Utechin

John Diamond presents a personal account of the week's press and the newspaper business. Producer Charles Sigler

A recollection of the first gathering of the UN, the celebrity journalists who covered the meeting; Joan Stitt McMenamin, the outgoing headmistress of Nightingale-Bamford School.

A Country Drive with Mary Webb
The novelist and poet Mary Webb loved the landscape and legends of Shropshire so much they became the backdrop for all her work. Her biographer, Gladys Mary Coles, leads Chris Eldon Lee on a journey through fact, fiction and infatuation.
Featuring Rosemary Leach as Mary Webb.

by Alistair Cooke.

with Robin Lustig. Stereo

A British Picture
Written and read by Ken Russell. Part 5.
Stereo

A satirical look back at the week's news.
Producer Louise Coats. Stereo

with Heather Payton.