Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
Producers Richard Sanders and John Harvey
with Fr John McCullagh.
with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr Pauline Webb.
President-Elect Clinton, otherwise a Great Appeaser, talks of "tightening the noose" around Castro in Cuba. Is this the last Christmas for the famed Communist leader? Andy Kershaw reports from the BBC Archive.
Producer Noah Richler
with Melvyn Bragg.
Producer Marina Salandy-Brown Stereo
John Milton 's epic poem of the Fall of Man, abridged in 41 episodes.
29: Eve, tempted by the Serpent, tastes the forbidden fruit and persuades Adam to do likewise.
Abridged by Adrian Mitchell Music: Elizabeth Parker
Director John Theocharis
Presented by Jenni Murray.
With the South African all-women singing group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Serial: Proto Zoe
Written by Amanda Prantera.
Read in ten episodes by Sara Kestelman.
3: The Coming of Chamonix
Abridged by Delia Paton Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie
Vincent Duggleby once again takes your calls on how to make the most of your money.
Producer Frances Macdonald
●Lines open from 10.00am
Presented by John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
Frank Delaney presents the last programme in the series about English that is what it says.
This week: Tools or Technobabble? The jargoners fight it out. Producer Simon Elmes
Stereo
Presented by James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey
Stereo
Jeffery Farnol 's swashbuckling novel of pirates, vengeance, love and death, set in England and on a desert island, in an action-packed dramatisation.
Dramatised by Michael Bartlett Director Glyn Dearman Stereo
Sue MacGregor meets Kathy Stobart , jazz saxophonist, to talk about her life and work.
Producer Gillian Hush. Stereo
Natalie Wheen talks to the violinist Giles Lewin , who is currently learning
Egyptian fiddle techniques in Cairo, and visits an exhibition of traditionally-made rugs.
Producer Beaty Rubens. Stereo (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
Black Dog by Penelope Lively.
"He asked her what she thought the dog would do if it got into the house.... She was silent for a moment and then said quietly she supposed it would eat her". Read by June Barrie. Producer Viv Beeby
with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.
It's no good crying over spilt milk. Stereo
with Derek Cooper.
In Guy Slater's play, Ben, now a successful journalist, returns to Burma to search for not just a story but his past. Thirty years ago Ben was 18 and left Burma and Sally, his first love, when they were forced apart by the revolution.
(Stereo)
Stereo
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White , stereo
with Richard Kershaw.
Stereo
Man with No Eyes by Fay Weldon.
Read by Julie Christie. Beginning a three-part short story about Edgar and Minette and their two children who decide to go on holiday to Kent. Every night they play Monopoly. Edgar, Minette, Minnie and Mona.
Producer Clive Stanhope A CSA Telltapes production
Starring Tony Hancock. The Grappling Game Also starring
Sidney James , Bill Kerr , Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques. With Wally Stott and his Orchestra.
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton. Producer Tom Ronald
(First broadcast in 1958)
