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

with Michele Guinness.

with John Humphrys and Sue MacGregor.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.

Mel Hill finds archive evidence of the BBC's changing attitude to the wild, loud and uncouth music of jazz.
Producer Fran Acheson. Stereo

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

John Milton 's epic poem abridged in 41 episodes.
6: Satan journeys alone to the new world where
God's new creation is purported to live.
Abridged by Adrian Mitchell Music: Elizabeth Parker Director John Theocharis

Jenni Murray meets Gail Rebuck , chief executive and chairman of the publishing conglomerate Random House.
Serial: Love in the Modem Sense by Carol Clewlow.
The fifth of 13 episodes read by Jan Francis.
Abridged by Pat McLoughlin Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie

with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Robert McKenzie eLines open from 10.00am

with Roisin McAuley.

Frank Delaney is back with the programme that is what it says, featuring English as she is spoke ... and sometimes as she isn't. This week: Does size matter? Shakespeare called upon thousands of words, but how many can you command?
Producer Simon Elmes. Stereo

with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey

Stereo

D H Lawrence 's comedy, written in 1912, is based on his elopement with Frieda. Robert Wesson and his lover Barbara have fled to
Tuscany, where they are pursued by Barbara's family. Barbara is racked with guilt when she meets her unstable husband. Director Michael Fox Stereo

A series of programmes looking at the pleasures, pitfalls and personalities of musical instruments through the eyes of the people who play, carry, make or mend them.
2: The Piano
"A piano has a real personality, you can always tell if it will fit up a flight of stairs."
Producer Emma Kingsley. Stereo

Merle Collins , the poet and novelist, talks to
Ferdinand Dennis about her work, her time in Grenada when the US invaded and about the ironies in her new collection
Rotten Pomerack.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo

with Robert Dawson-Scott .
Where Does Kissing End? - a new novel of possession and obsession by Kate Pullinger. Also an international festival of guitars, and a history of the Reuters press agency. Producer Neil Trevithick. Stereo
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

The Waiting Room by Karen Knight.
"I regarded the apparition in the doorway in fear and trepidation, for, from 20 feet away in dim gaslight, it appeared to be a strange unhealthy creature...."
Read by Crawford Logan. Producer Bruce Young

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.

Jill is on the warpath. Stereo

Presented by Derek Cooper.
Children and food: who prevails in the battle to influence children's eating habits - mummy or the crackle and pop of the junk food-munching TV cartoon heroes?

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.
In the golden valleys of California, two itinerant workers struggle to sustain their dream. The story of a friendship put to a terrible test.
Dramatised by Penny Leicester Director Richard Wortley. Stereo

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Tim Bowler. Stereo

with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo

Loitering with Intent Peter O'Toole reads the sixth of eightepisodes of his autobiography.
Abridged by Andrew Simpson Producer David Benedictus

A classic from 1956.
Six Charlies in Search of an Author
Starring Peter Sellers , Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan , with Ray Ellington and Max Geldray.
Music by Wally Stott. Restoration by Ted Kendall Producer Pat Dixon