Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

with Clive Lawton.

with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor.
Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Dr David Stone
8.40 Yesterday In Parliament

with Libby Purves and birthday guest Phyllida Law , actress. Producer Lucy Cacanas

Exodus. Part 5.

Fresh from her recent triumph at the American presidential celebrations, the poet and author Maya Angelou talks to Jenni Murray.
Story: A Dream of Winter by Rosamond Lehmann from Infinite Riches.
"What an extraordinary day, what an odd meeting and parting. It seemed to her that her passive, dreaming, leisured life was nothing in the last analysis but a fluid element for receiving and preserving faint paradoxical images and symbols." Read by Maureen O'Brien. Abridged by Doreen Estall

Members and friends of the Museum of Garden History, London, put questions to Dr Stefan Buczacki , Bridget Moody and Fred Downham. Chairman Clay Jones.

A five-part dramatisation of Peter Lovesey 's novel. With Ronald Pickup as Walter and Oona Beeson as Alma.
4: Walter and Alma think they have committed the perfect murder.
Dramatised by Geoffrey M Matthews Director Matthew Walters

A four-part series by Sally Worboyes.
4: Laura Jackson must face the repercussions of her affair.
Producer Philip Martin

New paperbacks for summer reading.

Alun Lewis takes to the highway and investigates new ways of building and repairing the nation's roads. Producer Julian Brown

Nigel Andrews investigates the radio series Saturday Night at the Movies, reviews this week's big screen releases, and celebrates 10 years of the Film and Television Museum at Bradford. Producer Paul Quinn

by Geoff Nicholson.
Once she was a male impersonator, now she plays guitars....
Read by Sunny Ormonde . Producer Sue Wilson

George can't leave his birds.

John Waite investigates ... Editor Graham Ellis
WRITE TO: Face the Facts. BBC Broadcasting House. London, W1A1AA.

with Geoff Watts.

From coping with difficult doctors to pulling babies out of pit latrines in the African bush, midwives are more than just a delivery service. Jane Grayshon talks to a group of midwives about their profession.
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

Edward Said , Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, introduces himself, his background and ideas, and discusses his Reith Lectures on the role and responsibilities of intellectuals in public life- Representations of the Intellectual -with James Naughtie. Producer Anne Winder
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(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White.

Part 3: The Tale of the House in the Cocoa.

3: More Time than Motion!
Nigel Farrell clocks in for another look at Britain's corporate past and uncovers material charting changes in working practices during the 20th century. As well as examples from Britain's industrial heartland, there's some rare material of East Anglian farmworkers and advice to employees working abroad.