Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

with Ruth Robinson.

with Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Canon Eric James
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

with Libby Purves and Brian Hayes. Producer Lucy Cacanas

Exodus. Final Part.

Jenni Murray meets the Chilean novelist Isabel Allende.
Story: Salt of the Earth by Rebecca West from Infinite Riches. Second of two parts.

Repeated from Sunday 2.00pm)

Last of a five-part dramatisation of Peter Lovesey 's novel.
With Ronald Pickup as Walter, Fiona Fullerton as Lydia and Oona Beeson as Alma. Walter has been shot. Alma no longer loves him. Did they murder his wife for nothing?
Dramatised by Geoffrey M Matthews Director Matthew Walters

with James Naughtie.

Colin Douglas's four-part drama serial on the history of the National Health Service, seen through the lives of two generations of Edinburgh doctors. Adapted by the author from his novel Sickness and Health.
Director Patrick Rayner

Anthropologist Nigel Barley shares his passion for African pots and the wealth of meanings they contain. 1: A Pot of Messages.

Can South Africa's police force be persuaded to back the country's moves towards multi-party democracy? Reporter Tom Carver.

Lone inventors have produced many indispensable gadgets.
In the last programme of the series, Alun LewisvisitsEurope 'slargestinventors'fair and discovers what may be the next big thing to hit the high streets. Producer Deborah Cohen

Brian Sibley reviews the week's new films including John Landis 's Innocent Blood and Sylvester Stallone in Cliffhanger, also High Art and Low Life , decadent images for the late 19th century, at the V & A Museum. Producer Rachel Yorke
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

Final episode: "Opening another man s property did not come easily to the membership of the tennis club."

with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.

Chairman Robert Robinson.

Lynda's the worm that turns.

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

Baby farmer Margaret Waters was hanged in 1870 for letting a child starve to death ... Stanley Williamson investigates the events leading up to the "Act for the Better Preservation of Infant
Life" - the first piece of legislation to be concerned with the welfare of children. Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

Working in ivorytowers or public offices, concentrating on private thoughts or challenging orthodoxy - Edward Said , Professor at Columbia University, examines how intellectuals have been defined and what their role should be in the modern world.
1: Representations of the Intellectual. Producer Anne Winder

(Revised repeat of 4. 05pm)

with Roger White.

with Alexander MacLeod.

Last part: The Tale from the House by the &a

4: Poise and Deportment. Nigel Farrell serves up a reminder of how women once fared in commerce and industry.