Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with Tim Pemberton.
with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rt Rev Tom Butler
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
with Libby Purves and birthday guest Sam Fox. Producer Lucy Cacanas
An Anthology of Spiritual Verse
Poetry on the theme of Nature.
Readers Paul Scofield ,
Brid Brennan , David Holt and Alison Reid.
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: Leaving the Light On (7)
with Linda Lewis.
by Edith Wharton. Second of six parts. With , and Ellen continues to challenge the strict conventions of New York society. Newland is entranced.
Dramatised by Christopher Reason Director David Hunter
with James Naughtie.
by Peter Reynolds.
Since Adrian left, Sophie's favourite place is at the bottom of the pool. The last thing she wants to do is interview Vincent, the local eccentric and man-powered aeronaut....
Director Andy Jordan
Books for Babies
2: Back to the Lubwa
Mission
Richard Mullen considers aspects of 19th-century life seen through the eyes of this far-seeing author. 5: "I do not much mind what a man's politics are, as long as he has got politics."
With Paul Rogers as Anthony Trollope. Producer John Knight
Nigel Andrews on the film release of the week -
Sommersby, a Civil War story starring Jodie Foster and Richard Gere - and the life of Rebel Without a Cause director
Nicholas Ray.
Producer Belinda Sample
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
Vandals by Peter Lovesey.
Miss Parmenter disliked the young man on sight.
He looked no better than a vandal. What was he doing on her doorstep? Read by Auriol Smith. producer Matthew Walters
with Wendy Austin and Frank Partridge.
There's a surprise in store.
Profiles of three
Australians.
1: Greg lvone hunts the dingo on the frontier between the wild highlands of Victoria and the farms in the valleys. Reporter David Wright. Presenter Neil Walker.
Produced by Revolution Recordings
Presented by Peter France. 2: Rambling wombs and wandering stars
Greek myth tells how the moon fell in love with Endymion as he lay sleeping in a cave, and soothed him with gentle kisses so that he lay there for centuries in eternal youth and beauty. Now man has walked on the moon and we know that it's just a chunk of dead rock four-and-a-half billion years old. Can we learn anything from the Greeks about science?
Producer Kate McAll
Turning Up the Heat The last ten years have seen the creation of a new breed of people: the regulators who intervene to control the activities of the privatised monopolies. They have got power without precedent, and they have provoked sharp reactions from the industries they preside over. Peter Day asks how the regulators are measuring up.
Producer Robert McKenzie
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White.
with Alexander MacLeod.
A Straightforward Tale Episode 3.
Simon Brett returns with diaries for April 16. Dervla Murphy is alarmed to find herself incapable of coherent conversation after one glass of the local hooch on a trip to
Afghanistan in 1963; artist Paul Klee finds inspiration in the colours of Tunisia in 1914; in 1815 Benjamin Robert Haydon can barely contain his excitement when describing a "first kiss"; and in 1867 the complications of a ménagea-trois mean misery for Richard Wagner.
