Daily bulletin of rural current affairs. Producers Robin Maynard and John Harvey
with Margaret Martyn.
with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Umar Hegedus.
With the help of distinguished alpinist Dr Helmut Schlepper , Russell Davies examines the way the British climb mountains.
Producer Noah Richler
with Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Manna Salandy-Brown
Exodus. Third often readings by David Kossoff.
Abndged by Donald Bancroft Director David Hunter
The president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, Philomena Davidson Davis talks to Jenni Murray about the largest open-air exhibition of sculpture in this country.
Serial: A House in Flanders by Michael Jenkins. Tenth of 11 episodes read by David McAlister.
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie
with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Frances Macdonald LINES open from 10.00am
Editor Ken Vass
Chairman Robert Robinson.
Round 1 - The North of England.
Peter Todd (carpenter and joiner); Joe Shelley (retired history teacher); Isabelle Wilson (unemployed); David Shiels (mature student). Producer Richard Edis
David Pownall 's play, which was nominated for Best Play in the 1992 Sony Awards, is set in Liverpool at the time of the cholera epidemic. It examines the life and work of the woman who was hailed as a "saint".
Songs by Maddy Prior
Director Martin Jenkins
John Miller talks to the theatre director Michael Bogdanov , whose travels have taken him to Ireland, Japan and most notably Germany, where he was director of the National Theatre in Hamburg. His view of the differences between German and English actors is one of the "home truths' he explores.
Producer Richard Bannerman
Robert Dawson Scott listens to a first recording of Britten's opera Gloriana and talks to Jeremy J Beadle about his theories of popular music.
Producer Neil Trevithick (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
by Russell Hoban.
Thunder crashes. Lightning flashes. He meets Aznul Hazakh , the mantris High priestess. And someone called Charlie plays on the didjeridu ...
Read by Nicholas Le Prevost. Producer Duncan Minshull
More comedy re-creations starring Michael Roberts as Groucho Marx as Waldorf T Flywheel and Frank Lazarus as Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravelli. With the vocal talents of Graham Hoadly and Lorelei King and special guests Spike Milligan and Dick Vosburgh.
Script by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman Adapted and written by Mark Brisenden Music: David Firman
Producer Dirk MaggsfRpt ;
It's no Bull!
with Derek Cooper.
by Henry Livings.
Returning from Australia, Timothy Turner finds his only relatives hostile. They are fostering pauper children on their Saddleworth farm. But something is wrong and Timothy is doggedly determined to unearth the truth.
Director David Hunter
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White.
Lawrence Scott reads, in eight parts, his story of the decline of a colonial family.
Radio Active
The last of the current crop of re-runs starring Helen Atkinson Wood , Angus Deayton , Michael Fenton-Stevens , Geoffrey Perkins and Philip Pope.
Producer Jimmy Mulville (First broadcast in 1983)
