The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
A meditation with Rev Michael Lewis.
with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rt Rev
Richard Harries.
8.40Yesterday in Parliament
The continuing real-life stories of the folk of Bentley in Hampshire. Presenter Nigel Farrell. Producer Ronni Davis
20: The Battle of Kuruksheta.
Anna Ford meets the actress Sheila Hancock.
Serial: A Lesson in Dying
(10)
Hospitals and sanctuaries for wounded wildlife - are they a good thing or a waste of money that could be better spent on conservation? Presented by Jessica Holm.
Producer Grant Sonnex
with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
Skirting the law - dealing in illegal seeds.
Meet Derek Cooper at the Henry Doubleday Organic Research Centre, where he will be tasting many varieties of winter squashes, a new kind of forbidden fruit.
Producer Dylan Winter
with Nick Clarke.
Stereo
The True Story of Martin Guerre
Dramatised in two parts from the trial notes of the 16th-century French judge, Jean de Coras.
When Martin Guerre returned home to his
Pyrenean village after eight years he was charged with being an impostor. But the trial left many questions unanswered, stereo
BBC correspondents at home and abroad report on topics in this week's news. Producers Carole Lacey and Howard Rogers
Prolific American author
Joyce Carol Oates talks to Nigel Forde about her work and her new novel
Black Water, which explores the moment when a senator's car plunges from a bridge with a young woman passenger. Producer Julian May Stereo
Louisa Buck is at the Donmar Warehouse as it reopens in London with a new Sondheim musical
Assassins; the outrageous American artist Jeff Koons is on exhibition; and there's also a report on a Diego Rivera exhibition. Producer Belinda Sample Stereo
5: You Have to Laugh
What starts off as a joke for Charley turns out not to be so funny after all ... Read by James Bolam.
with Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes.
The transport programme with Janet Trewin. Producer Jill Thomas
A bed scene for Nelson.
Written by Simon Frith
Director Keri Davies. Stereo
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Chris Serle presents his selection of extracts from BBC radio and television over the past seven days. Producer Tessa Watt. Stereo
Jonathan Dimbleby and guests Sir John Harvey -Jones, industrialist; Simon Jenkins , journalist and ex-editor of The Times; Lady
Wilcox, Chairwoman of the National Consumer
Council; and Lord
Palumbo, Chairman of the Arts Council, tackle the issues raised in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire. Producer Nick Utechin
The cases, the courts and the lawyers -
Marcel Berlins 's weekly look at how developments in the law affect our lives.
Producer Sallie Davies
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Election predictions and certainties
15 minutes
on BBC Radio 4 FMAvailable for over a year
The 1992 Presidential election, the dangers of predicting the outcome of the vote and a look to history for examples of election certainty.
John Miller talks to scriptwriter Larry Gelbart. Stereo
by Alistair Cooke.
with Robin Lustig. stereo
Lucy
Final part: Lucy
(For details see Monday
A satirical review of the week's news.
Producer Jon Naismith. Stereo
with Heather Payton.
