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

with Rev Derek Boden.

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

Sixty years ago we were in the throes of economic depression. What were the lessons leamt then and were we better able to cope in those hard times? Helen Chapell explores the Sound Archives for answers.
Producer Clare McGinn

with Melvyn Bragg and guests in lively and stimulating conversation. Producer Marina Salandy-Brown

The Gospel of Mark Juliet Stevenson reads seven episodes from the Revised English Bible. 4: The Transfiguration Abridged by Michael Carroll Producer Christine Morgan

with Jenni Murray. Serial: Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. The eleventh of sixteen parts read by Harriet Walter. Abridged by Doreen Estall Editors Clare Selerie and Sally Feldman

[number removed]with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Virginia Eastman
* Lines open from 10.00am

with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass

Ned Sherrin conducts contestants through more musical questions, in the eighth heat of the quiz that covers everything from Baroque to Punk Rock. Producer Gareth Edwards

with James Naughtie.

Adapted from
George Orwell 's novel, which tells of the scandal that rocked a small town when the clergyman's daughter suddenly disappeared.
Other parts played by Struan Rodger. Jillie Meers. Charles Simpson. Karen Rose , Tamsin Collison , Joanna Kyle and Melissa Catsoulis
Adapted by John Peacock
Director Celia De Wolff

In the first of two talks,
Adrian Mourby reports on life among the Silkies
(Single Income and Lots of Kids).
Producer Gillian Hush

Sue MacGregor meets the marine archaeologist
Honor Frost to talk about her life and work. Producer Gillian Hush

As the Polish composer
Gorecki stays in the charts with his third symphony, Natalie Wheen listens to his other music. Also a new translation of the Flaubert-Sand letters.
Producer Jerome Weatherald (Revised repeat at 9.15pml

The Smilers by F Scott Fitzgerald.
In hot, bustling New York a set of acquaintances all seem to look on the bright side of things. But there are darker moments.
Read by Garrick Hagon. Producer Duncan Minshull

with Wendy Austin and Frank Partridge. Editor Chris Birkett
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What has Caroline done?

with Derek Cooper.

Into the Darkness
Laughing by Patrice Chaplin. Modigliani, the revolutionary Italian modernist painter, seduced but inspired many women. None more so than his last mistress, model and fellow painter, Jeanne Hebuterne. This is her passionate and tragic story.
Director Richard Wortley

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White.

with Robin Lustig.

by Anatoly Pristavkin. Read in ten parts by John Hurt.
Written in great secrecy in 1981, its recent publication hailed as a literary event, this is the poignant but wickedly funny story of orphaned identical twins in the Caucasus, struggling to survive extremes of hunger, cold and war.

Whose Line is it Anyway?
With Stephen Fry , John Sessions , Rory Bremner and Jon Glover.
Clive Anderson is in the chair. Producer Dan Patterson (First broadcast in 1988)