Rural current affairs.

with Judith O'Neill.

with Sue MacGregor and Chris Lowe.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Father Oliver McTeman

Vanessa Feltz consorts with the folks in the BBC Sound Archives who cherish the traditional British breakfast.
Producer Louise Purslow

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

Leo Tolstoy 's compelling autobiography in which he describes his search for the meaning of life.
The eighth of ten parts read by Joss Ackland.
Abridged by Andrew Simpson
Producer Claire Campbell Smith

The actress Lisa Harrow talks to Jenni Murray about Australian family life and its portrayal in her latest film The Last Days of Chez Nous.
Serial: Tommy Was
Here by Simon Corrigan. The sixth of ten episodes read by Rowena Cooper. Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerte

with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Chris Godsmark
•Lines open from 10.00am

with Linda Lewis. Editor Ken Vass

Ned Sherrin conducts contestants through the wide-ranging musical quiz. Producer Gareth Edwards.

with James Naughtie. Editor Roger Mosey

In Guy Meredith's new comedy, Adam Bax returns to London after ten years on the run in Spain. Penniless and jobless, he is taken under the wing of an old student of his. He soon finds himself tangled up in a major art deception, and now one of his collaborators has been murdered!
(Stereo)

Nobody gets it
_ right all the time ...
John Humphrys talks to another four people who have weathered major storms in their careers. 1: David Mellor , the minister for fun who found that politics and scandal don't mix.
Producer Brian King

Paul Vaughan reports on the new production of Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde at Welsh
National Opera in Cardiff. Plus a review of the Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova.
Producer Abigail Appleton
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Nigel Anthony reads John Collier's eerie tale of romance and magic set in turn-of-the-century Ireland.

with Valerie Singleton and Frank Partridge.

Nicholas Parsons challenges guests Clement Freud , Derek Nimmo , Wendy Richard and Alistair McGowan to talk for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

Robin shows his true colours. Stereo
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with Derek Cooper.

Check the Tension by Steve May.
An African state has a way of encouraging holidaymakers, but the tensions within it are ignored by an English businesswoman until it is too late.
Director Richard Wortley Stereo

Four talks in which Ian Ousby argues that the English tourist industry is not a modern creation.

The perspective from the centre of Cambridge. And the earlier visit of Mr George H Ball from Boston.

Stereo (Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White. Stereo

with Tim Sebastian. Stereo

An Evil Cradling
Brian Keenan reads his own extraordinary account of his four and a half years as a hostage in the Lebanon in ten episodes. Episode 6 continues the development of his relationship with John McCarthy - On the Move.
Producer Pam Brighton

Another chance to hear the radio comedy shows that television couldn't resist, starting with: Stephen Fry, John Sessions, Lenny Henry and Dawn French battling their way through a succession of improvisation games.
Chaired by Clive Anderson. Colin Sell at the piano
(Stereo)