Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

With Rev Nicholas Bradbury.

With Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday. Details as yesterday plus: 7-45 Thought for the Day With Jonathan Fryer.

2: Castles in Spain

PrOducer Poppy Hughes
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The Book of Nehemiah. The first of twoepisodes read from the Authorised Version by Bernard Hepton. Abridged by Roger Pine
Producer Sarah Kilgarriff

For 23 years one woman has been responsibleforthe Woman's Hourserial. On the day of her retirement, Jenni Murray talks to Pat McLoughlin about her favourite books, actors, what makes the Ideal radio reading, and how she selects the music.
Serial: A Rather English Marriage (9)

Geoff Watts reports on the health of Medical care, from the research laboratory to the GP's surgery.
Producer Julia Durbin

With John Howard.

Ray Cooney , Barry Cryer and Brian Johnston tell the stories. Listeners and chairman Tim Brooke-Taylor have to Suess who's hoaxing. rOducer Edward Taylor

with James Naughtie.

Poet Ted Walker 's play tells the story of a night spent as a boy in a fishing boat off the coast of Sussex.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin

with cellist Tim Hugh and the pianist
Yonty Solomon.
Producer Ray Abbott

Joanna Buchan explores freedom. For Christie freedom meant becoming a member of the "3rd Sex" - neither male or female - and 83-year-old Russian Misha recalls the journey he made as a 7-year-old to be free from hunger. Producer Edward Odim

The first ten years of Format, Britain s only women's photographic agency. The author William Boyd is Gill Pyrah 's guest and there is a discussion about the literary consequences of Mrs Thatcher.
Producer Neil Trevithick (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

by Elizabeth Jonsson.
Fritz's only childhood friends in south-west Africa are bushmen from the Kalahari tribe. On his final trek with them he is made aware of the changing pattern of his life - and his inevitable journey to manhood. Read by Michael Lumsden. Producer Rosemary Watts

with Chris Lowe.

Spoof documentaries, written and presented by Chris Kelly.
Starring Rupert Graves.
Why was Bishop Ronald Millikin one of Chris Kelly's personal heroes? Was it his outstanding personal piety, or his inflexible interpretation of the Ibw laws? With contributions from Derek Nimmo, Russell Davies, Anna Raeburn, Brian Bowles, Rebecca Front, Gerard Green, Simon Greenall and Maggie Guess.

The last programme of the series in which Michael O'Donnell explores the extraordinary within family life.
4: The Castries. Cass Castree is a professional club singer and piano playerfrom Lancashire. He married Catherine, 17 years his junior, and they moved in with her parents, Bob and Marion. But now the mother-in-law jokes have taken on a whole new meaning. Producer Chris Paling

Peter Evans presents the weekly review of discoveries and developments in science.
Producer Deborah Cohen

4: Singularly Reckless Statesman. Tony Robinson presents a history of the quip factor in British politics from the Civil War to the present day. With the voices of John Sessions , Matthew Morgan , Peter Gunn , Gordon Reid and Sally Grace. Producer Paul Schlesinger

News, views and information for people with visual handicap. With Peter White. Producer Eleanor Garland
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(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White.

with Robin Lustig.

Part 2.

Andrew McAllister introduces an evening of contemporary poetry from Pakistan's leading women poets - presented by playwright Rukhsana Ahmad.
Producers Anne Edyvean and Susan Roberts

Questionmaster Stefan Buczacki with two teams led by Irene Thomas and Norman Painting. Guests this week are Sian Phillips , Nicholas Parsons , Mary O'Hara and Vince Hill.