Rural current affairs.
Producers Richard Sanders and John Harvey

with Rev Dave Pole.

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

In 1968 the students of Paris rebelled.
David Jessel , who was a young reporter in the city, runs through the Sound
Archive with the rioters and the riot police. Producer Julia Durbin

with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Satandy-Brown Stereo

John Milton 's epic poem of the Fall of Man, abridged in 41 episodes.
10: The Son of God offers to redeem mankind, and Satan, entering the Garden of Eden, eavesdrops on Adam and Eve.
Abridged by Adrian Mitchell Music: Elizabeth Parker Director John Theocharis

Jenni Mills talks to
Fiona Chadwick , principal dancer with the Royal Ballet. Serial: Love in the Modem Sense by Carol Clewlow. The tenth of 13 episodes read by Jan Francis.
Abridged by Pat McLoughlin Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie

with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Virginia Eastman eLines open from 10.00am

with John Howard.

with Frank Delaney.
This week: Making an impression. What do the political takers-off know that we don't about the words their victims use? Producer Simon Elmes. Stereo

with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey

Stereo

This second play in the short season of Angela Carter's work is a strictly adult version of the well-known nursery story.
(Stereo)
(First broadcast in 1982)
(Next play Thursday 2.00 pm)

Last in the series looking at the pleasures, pitfalls and personalities of musical instruments.
3: The Contrabassoon
"I say that I play the contrabassoon ... and people say, 'What?'" Producer Emma Kingsley Stereo
3.30pm
Conversation Piece
Sue MacGregor's first guest in this senes of six programmes is Kevin Coates , artistgoldsmith, sculptor and musician, who talks about his life and work.
Producer Gillian Hush. Stereo

Natalie Wheen talks to the young Irish writer
Shane Connaughton , co-author of My Left Foot, whose book Run of the Country is
Radio 4's Book at Bedtime; and the largest festival of Scandinavian culture ever held in Great Britain gets into full swing at the Barbican Centre.
Producer Jerome Weatherald. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.15pm FM)

A week of bitter-sweet comedies by R K Narayan. 1: Engine Trouble.
In North India you can win a steam-engine in a raffle.
But how do you get it home? Read by Zia Mohyeddin. Producer Duncan Minshull

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.

Has Phil forgotten an important date? Stereo

with Derek Cooper.

by Peter Thomson. Based on stories by Franz Kafka.
When Larry turns up at an audition saying that he's a hunger artist, Johnny Johnson forgets the talking dog and knows that he has struck gold.
(Stereo)

with Roger White. Stereo

with Robin Lustig. Stereo

Run of the Country Written and read in ten parts by Shane Connaughton.
A teenage boy, struggling to come to terms with the death of his mother, runs away from home. He imagines he has the run of the country, but it's Irish border country that has the run of him.
This is the second of the author's books to be adapted for radio. Like the first, A Border Station, it is a blend of farce and tragedy. Producer Pam Brighton

A classic from 1959.
The Scarlet Capsule with Peter Sellers , Harry Secombe , Spike Milligan , Ray Ellington and Max Geldray.
Music by Wally Stott. Restoration by Ted Kendall Producer John Browell