The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

with Akhandadhi Dasa.

with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
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
.WRITE to: Feedback, BBC, London W1A 1AA

Acts of the Apostles
9. Paul makes his defence.

Introduced by Jenni Mills. (Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
The Fireman's Fire (8)

Presented by Jessica Holm. Producer Grant Sonnex

with Debbie Thower. Editor Ken Vass

with 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

with James Cox.

Stereo

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.
2: The Virgin in the Garden
Stephanie's wedding is to go ahead, in spite of her father's opposition.
Rehearsals for Alexander's play, and Alexander himself, are occupying her sister Frederica's attention, while her younger brother Marcus is undergoing a series of increasingly dangerous psychic experiments.
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

If you've ever put down a book and imagined a conversation with its author, now's your chance to find out: How did it all start? Do characters really have a life of their own?
Does the author imagine the perfect reader?
In a special edition, Nigel Forde invites listeners to phone his guest authors. Booker Prize-winning novelist Penelope Lively and Paul Bailey , author of Gabriel's Lament, will be answering your calls. Producer Sally Marmion. Stereo
•LINES OPEN from 2.00pm

An exhibition of pre-
Hispanic Aztec books at the British Museum; modem Mexican papier mache artists at the Museum of Mankind: and Greek blues singer George Dalaras. Presented by Natalie Wheen.
Producer Beaty Rubens. Stereo

Blue Poppies by Jane Gardam.
Revelations at the old house where the Duchess presides and the old Duke dithers.
Read by Anna Massey.
Producer Duncan Minshull

with Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.

The transport programme with Janet Trewin. Producer Jill Thomas

There's chaos at the church with more exciting discoveries. Written by Simon Frith. Stereo

From Brierley Hill, West Midlands.
The panel includes:
Sir John Harvey Jones , industrialist; and Ann Taylor MP, Shadow Spokeswoman on Environmental Protection.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby.
Producer Nick Utechin

The return of Marcel Berlins with a weekly look at developments in the law. Tonight he talks to the new Lord Chief Justice, Lord Taylor.
Producer Sallie Davies

The law surrounding extradition and the relationship between freedom of speech and racism, following two prominent Supreme Court rulings.

Alan Strachan talks to one of Britain's foremost classical actors, Robert Stephens. Stereo

by Alistair Cooke.

with Robin Lustig. Stereo

Daisy Miller by Henry James. Final part.

A satirical look back at the week's news with the Week Ending team. Producer Louise Coats
Stereo

with Heather Payton.