The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

with Rabbi Y
Rubinstein.

with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Rev Richard Harries.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

with Chris Dunkley. Producer Poppy Hughes
●WRITE to: Feedback. BBC. London W1A 1AA

Episode 33.

From Belfast. With a week to go until Christmas,
Wendy Austin invites you to call in with questions, problems and advice about the big day.
Phone: [number removed].
Serial Proto Zoe
7: Bernard

Presented by Jessica Holm. Producer John Ruthven

with Roisin McAuley. Editor Ken Vass

Presented by Derek Cooper.
Pesticides and poultry, fast-food and foie gras ... the show that investigates the good, the bad and the tasteless.
Producer Sheila Dillon

with Nick Clarke.

Stereo

The Suicide Club
The second of two stories by Robert Louis Stevenson. In this melodrama, the gallant Prince Florizel of Bohemia swears vengeance on an evil gaming establishment. Stereo

BBC correspondents at home and abroad report on one of the main British or foreign topics in this week's news.
Producers Carole Lacey and Howard Rogers

Thriller-writer of many guises, Jonathan Aycliffe provides a ghostly element for Christmas with his new novel Whispers in the Dark. Nigel Forde also discusses the importance of time in fiction with novelists A S Byatt and Michael Frayn.
Producer Sally Marmion. Stereo

Louise Buck reports on the new Peter Shaffer play Tire Gifts of the Gorgon, and talks to artists Gilbert and George.
Producer Jerome Weatherald
Stereo

The Clerk's Tale by V S Pritchett.
A clerk remembers a journey to work in wartime, a journey that marked a dramatic move from adolescence to manhood.
Read by Reece Dinsdale. Producer Sue Wilson

Presented by Frank Partridge and Hugh Sykes.

The transport programme with Janet Trewin. Producer Jill Thomas

An excuse or a proposal?
Written by Janey Preger
Director Keri Davies. Stereo
●Archers Addicts Fan Club: sae to [address removed]

with Chris Serle.
Producer Hilary McLennan. Stereo

Jonathan Dimbleby and guests Lady Howe,
Chairwoman of Opportunity 2000; Glenys Kinnock ,
Chairwoman of One World
Action; Sir Nigel Mobbs , Chairman of Aims of Industry and Slough
Estates pic; and Anthony Smith , President of Magdalen College, Oxford, tackle the issues raised in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Producer Nick Utechin

with John Diamond.
Producer Andrew Denwood

The realities of unlimited immigration, andthe movement that proposes to make English the official language of the United States.

The Etruscans in Paris

by Alistair Cooke.

with Robin Lustig. Stereo

Escape from Siberia
Leon Trotsky's account of his hair-raising escape by yak and reindeer from prison in Siberia.
The first of five parts, read by Andrew Sachs. Abridged by Mark Lodge Producer Claire Grove
Stereo

A satirical review of the week's news.
Producer Caroline Leddy. Stereo

with Heather Payton.