Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Sue Broom and Steve Punter
with the Rev Peter Read.
with John Humphrys and Susannah Simons.
Including:
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.
2: Spotties
Comedienne Kit Hollerbach suffers the ravages of transition to adulthood.
Producer Penny Lawrence. Stereo
with Melvyn Bragg. Stereo
Romans
The fifth of six parts.
Read by Roger McGough. Abridged by Delia Paton
Producer Michael Roberts
Live from the Royal Show at Stoneleigh,
Jenni Murray invites you to celebrate the joys of country living with actress Nichola McAuliffe , cake-decorators extraordinaire
Crumbs of London and falconer Jemima
Parry-Jones. Music by Token Women.
Serial: Bucket Nut by Liza Cody. Read in 12 episodes by Mia Soteriou. 1: Eva Wylie (Bucket Nut to her less flattering fans) is a female wrestler who fights as the London
Lassassin. She's also a security guard, open to any odd job on offer, with flexible moral standards. Abridged by Doreen Estall
Music: Schulhoff's Hot-Sonate Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman
with Vincent Duggleby.
Last in the present series. Producer Frances Macdonald •Lines open from 10.00am
with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
A nationwide general knowledge contest. Chairman
Robert Robinson.
First Round Scotland.
David Cumming (deputy head teacher);
Donald Munro (freelance writer); Dr David Hill (hospital doctor); John Ross
(chartered librarian).
Producer Richard Edis. Stereo
with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey
A golfing comedy by Robert East in which good sportsmanship is forgotten in the heat of battle.
Director Matthew Walters. Stereo
1: The Air Hostesses
How do you deal with a drunk at 30,000 feet? Anita Hughes flew with BOAC in the 50s - the days of the "trolley dollies". Jill Banks recently joined BA and is often seen as just a waitress-with-wings. Eavesdrop as they compare notes on the changes in their profession over the last 40 years. Producer Lucy Lunt
The last of six novelists in conversation with Rosemary Hartill. 6: Allan Massie.
Producer David Coomes
Natalie Wheen reviews a new production of Rossini's opera Il viaggio a Reims to celebrate the composer's 200th anniversary, and previews a Radio 3 play Moscow
Stations. Her guest in the studio is Pops Staples. Producer Belinda Sample Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
Realpolitik by Angus Wilson.
A classic tale of creeping power set in a provincial art gallery.
Read by Steve Hodson. Producer Michael Earley
with Wendy Austin.
A new eight-part series of the quick-thinking panel game in which leading business figures battle it out for the coveted prize of the key to the executive washroom.
Wit, mirth and a clamber through some crisis management. Recorded at the Langham Hilton in London.
The panel includes
Peter Day , Alastair Ross Goobey and Nigel Whittaker.
Chairman Nigel Cassidy. Producer Neil Koenig Stereo
A trying time for Lizzie. Stereo
with Derek Cooper.
Pesticides and poultry, fast food and foie gras ... Investigating the good, the bad and the tasteless.
Going Under
A love story set in Stalinist Russia. Two writers discover much about themselves and the system under which they live in Ken Whitmore 's dramatisation of the novel by Lydia Chukovskaya. Director Martin Jenkins Stereo
A second series of talks by John P Harris. 4: School
Producer Merilyn Harris
Stereo
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Tim Bowler , Stereo
with Robin Lustig. Stereo
The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler. The sixth of 15episodes read by Richard Leech.
Abridged by Jack Singleton.
Producer Pat McLoughlin
Barry Took hosts a vintage edition.
Richard Ingrams and Lord Deedes face Alan Coren and Richard Ingrams.
Producer Harry Thompson. Stereo (First broadcast in 1987)
