Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Richard Sanders and John Harvey

with Michele Guinness.

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

Scottish humorist
John McKay mingles with the movie stars of the fourth
(unheralded) Christopher
Columbus film epic of this quincentennial year.
Producer Noah Richler. Stereo

Lively conversation with Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo

Stories from the Hindu tradition.
16: The Wife Who Defeated Death.
Read by Art Malik , Mamta Kaash , Nitish Bharadwai and Ravin Ganatra.
Adapted from the Puranas by Akhandadhi Dasa
Music: Malcolm Clarke Producer Juii Wills

The novelist
Antonia Byatt shares withjenni Murray her relish for the Victorian age.
Serial: A Lesson in Dying
by Ann Cleves.
The sixth of 11 parts read by Marlene Sidaway.
Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie

Vincent Duggleby once again takes your calls on how to make the most of your money.
Producer Virginia Eastman ● Lines open from 10.00am

with Roisin McAuley.

London (Irene Thomas and Eric Kom ) versus the North (Paul Barker and Margaret Lesser).
Questionmasters: Gordon Clough and Anthony Quinton.
Producer Paul Z Jackson. Staeo

with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey

Stereo

In Mike Walker 's play set in Nicaragua, four people meet and decide to make a journey into the heart of the country, but when they happen upon a group of trigger-nervous Contras their nightmare begins.
Music: David Chilton and Nick Russell-Pavier .
Director Peter King. Stereo

Diane Abbott , Britain's first black woman MP, has now been in Parliament for five years. She talks to
Ferdinand Dennis about her achievements and goals, and contact with Jamaica.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo

Paul Vaughan surveys the controversial letters of Philip Larkin ;
Nicola LeFanu on her new opera Blood Wedding; and live harp music from Colombia. Producer Julia Durbin. Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

by A L Barker. A series of tales for Hallowe'en week.
1: The Game
Two young men growing up together end up sharing more than their boyhood aspirations. Read by Stephen Tompkinson. Producer Enyd Williams

with Frank Partridge.

Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains
Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren and their guests.

Phil hopes to make a let a hindrance. Stereo

with Derek Cooper.

Bad Blood by Griselda Gambaro.
The 19th-century drawing room of a wealthy family is the setting for this modem Argentinian tragedy of power, fear and perversion. The tyranny of the father is subverted by his daughter Delores, who pursues her love for the hunchback tutor, Raphael.
Translated by Marguerite Feitlowitz Music Peter Heyward
Violinist Diane Hamilton
Adapted and directed by Kate Rowland. Stereo

Malcolm Jones tells the story of his hapless namesake Edmund or In-I-Go Jones, who broke into Buckingham Palace in 1841 and was harshly punished for his impudence. Readers: Geoffrey Banks and Geoffrey Wheeler. Producer Gillian Hush.
Stereo

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo

Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid.
Lucy, a 19-year-old West Indian girl, escapes from her mother and her island I past to work in New York, j
First of five parts read by Adjoa Andoh.
Abridged by Ingrid Lewis ! Producer Celia de Wolff
Stereo

A lovingly restored classic from 1955.
The China Story.
Starring Peter Sellers , Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan , with * Ray Ellington and Max Geldray.
Music by Wally Stott. Restoration by Ted Kendall Producer Peter Eton