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

with the Rev
Robert Paterson.

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

1: Squawkers
In the first of three programmes, children's writer Michael Rosen finds his childhood preserved in the BBC Sound Archives.
Kids and programmes about kids aren't what they were - communication between the generations has changed somewhat since he was a lad.
Producer Penny Lawrence

with Melvyn Bragg. Stereo

Acts of the Apostles
Michael Williams reads the final episode from the Revised English Bible.
10: Paul travels to Rome. Abridged by Sue Reid
Director Claire Campbell Smith

with Jenni Murray.
What will a more unified Europe mean to women? (Revised repeat at 7.20pm LW) Serial:
The Fireman's Fire by Josephine Humphreys. The ninth of 13 episodes read by William Roberts. Abridged by Delia Paton Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie

Vincent Duggleby and a team of financial journalists discuss the issues that affect your money and give their tips for the summer.
Producer Robert McKenzie

with John Howard.

Chairman Robert Robinson.
First Round - North West. Robert Currie (police officer); Geoff Little
(retired teacher); Elaine Bates (retired librarian); Trevor Gwyther (retired teacher).
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo

with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey

Stereo

John Buchan 's classic shocker, dramatised for radio by Peter Buckman. With David Rintoul as Richard Hannay.
Only one man stands between Europe and a terrible war.
Also with Jimmy Chisholm , Michael Elder , Crawford Logan ,
David McKail ,
Alexander Morton , Sandy Neilson and John Shedden.
Director Patrick Rayner. Stereo

with Rosemary Hartill. 5: William Mclllvanney. Producer David Coomes

Robert Dawson-Scott reviews new recordings of Shostakovich's 10th
Symphony and James Hamilton-Paterson 's book
Seven-Tenths. Also a profile of the Queen of the Blues -
Dinah Washington.
Producer Anthony Denselow Stereo

Hattash by Paul Bowles.
Hattash earns his living by swindling people. Read by Ian Hogg. Producer Sally Avens

with Eddie Meir and Frank Partridge.
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Stereo

The strawberry thieves are caught at last! Stereo

David Forster describes how - and why - he made the transformation. Producer Gillian Hush

Exit/Entrance
In Aidan Mathews ' play, a middle-aged Charles and Helen are bidding adieu to their world, while next door, their younger selves begin life together.
Charles is played by Norman Rodway and Dermot Crowley. Helen, his wife, by Maureen O'Brien and Marcella Riordan.
Director Marilyn Imrie. Stereo

A second series of talks by John P Harris about living in a village in the South of France.
3: Le Telephone
Producer Merilyn Harris

Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Caroline Bayley. Stereo

with Robin Lustig. Stereo

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler , abridged in fifteen episodes by Jack Singleton. Read by Richard Leech.
First published in 1903, the story of Ernest < Pontifex and his struggle to escape the domination of his father has been described as "a hymn of hate against Victorian \ Christianity, Victorian family life and, in particular, against Butler's own parents — a devastating reprisal raid across the generation gap". Music: Janacek's Idyll
Producer Pat McLoughlin

Last in the series.
Comedy from 1958, with Dick Bentley ,
Jimmy Edwards , June Whitfield and Wallas Eaton.
Written by Frank Muir I and Denis Norden.
Producer Charles Maxwell