The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with Rev David Winter.
with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor. Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths.
2: Meera Syal reads from An Invitation to Indian Cookery by Madhur Jaffrey.
Your chance to talk to Nick Ross and his guests on an issue of the moment. Producer Poppy Hughes
LINES OPEN from 8.00am
II Samuel. Part 2.
Ruth Pitt meets Fiona Reynolds , director of the Council for the Protection of Rural
England.
Serial: The Caravaners (2).
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
Producer Constance St Louis
with John Howard.
Ray Cooney , Barry Cryer and Brian Johnston tell the stories. Listeners - and chairman Tim Brooke-Taylor - have to guess who's hoaxing. Producer Edward Taylor
with Nick Clarke.
A moral tale by Nest Entwistle.
Pete sells seashells in a loud voice. The new mayor urges him to enter the "prestigious" town crier competition.
Director Richard Wortley
in the last of the present series Jeremy Nicholas seeks out those moments in music that send a shiver down the spine. Producer Ray Abbott
Oliver Walston makes a journey with a difference, this week on the roads and rivers of Bolivia. Producer Carol Trewin
Last programme in the present series, presented by Susan Marling.
Producers Minam Akhtar. Paul Dodgson and John Holmes
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Paul Allen reports live from the Edinburgh Festival, including reviews of Peter Sellars ' production of The Passions, an interview with Arthur Smith and the latest from the fringe.
Producer Adrian Washboume (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
by Harry Venning.
"Dear Sally, Edinburgh is a beautiful city, well worth the 18-hour drive up in Jurgen's camper van. Festival rehearsals tomorrow! I can't wait!"
Read by Jonathan Cullen. Producer David Blount
with Jon Sopel and Linda Lewis.
by Colin Watson.
3: Body number two turns up, head down in a wishing well.
Dramatised by Christopher Denys Director Tony Cliff
Bert comes to the rescue.
A series of three programmes which for 12 months follows the lives of four mining families in south Yorkshire, as they face life without coal.
2: We Don't Want the Money. Mark, Mel, Philip and Russell have just received redundancy money after 20 years down the pit - Houghton Main Colliery. Presenter Allan Beswick.
Producer Julia Shaw
Last of four programmes in which David Bean explores Switzerland with the help of an earlier visitor, the Victorian physician John Forbes. Reader Struan Rodger. Water, Water Everywhere. Producer Gillian Hush
News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. With Peter White. Producer Thena Heshel
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: tel [number removed] between 9.15pm and 10.15pm
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Nigel Cassidy.
with Robin Lustig.
(For details see yesterday)
Andrew McAllister introduces
- Maya Angelou in performance at the Hay-on-Wye festival. Producer Susan Roberts
Questionmaster Stefan Buczacki , with Irene Thomas and Norman Painting and guests Sian Phillips , Nicholas Parsons , Vince Hill and Mary O'Hara.
