The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
With Martin Palmer , religious adviser to the World Wildlife Fund.
With John Humphrys and Peter Hobday , With Sue MacGregor at the Liberal Democrat Conference in Torquay.
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.
Domestic mayhem at 196 Cranford Gardens -the home of Dulcie Domum. Written and adapted by Sue Limb and read by Marty Cruickshank. 6: Crying Wolf
Producer Jonathan James-Moore
With Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Mary Sharp
Daniel. Alec McCowen reads the first of five parts.
Abridged by Roger Pine ; Producer Sarah Kilgarriff
Introduced by Anne Robinson.
Serial: A Rather English Marriage (13) Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie
with Vincent Duggleby.
Lines Open from 10.00am
With John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
The London team, Irene Thomas and Eric Korn, take on the Midlands team of Peter Oppenheimer and John Julius Norwich. Questionmasters Gordon Clough and Tony Quinton.
with Nick Clarke and James Naughtie.
by Friedrich Durrenmatt.
Matthews is a gifted detective but his clinical approach makes him unpopular with his colleagues. When a child is murdered, he risks everything to solve the case. with Gill Graham David Holt , Siriot Jenkins . James Teffer , Philip Anthony , John Webb and Alexander Thomson Adapted by Peter Thomson Director Claire Grove
Conversations with scientists. Heinz Wolff , Professor of Bioengineering at Brunei University, talks to Barbara Myers about the events which set him off on a career in medical research, space biology and television. Producer Deborah Cohen
Robert Dawson Scott meets conductor Michael Tilson Thomas ; the National Theatre hits the road with a production of Brecht's Mother Courage by Hanif Kureishi ; and the verdict on Gabriel Garcia Marquez 's collection of stories. Producer Nicki Paxman (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
by Valentin Katayev.
"His neighbours ate. Not less than four pounds of excellent black bread and coarse salt...." But how would he eat? Read by Dominic Letts. Translated by Mirra Ginsburg Producer Duncan Minshull
with Chris Lowe and Wendy Jones.
Geordie girl Thelma Hussein converted to Islam when she married Mohammed, an immigrant Yemeni seaman. Together the couple run a boarding house at the heart of the Tyneside Arab community. Producer Belinda Cherrington
by Mike McGrath.
Mona falls in love with a black British Army officer serving in Ulster. She contrives to meet at her uncle's cottage, but the suicide of a local girl intervenes.
Dave Harvie uncovers a strange connection between a Glasgow circus and German U-boats in 1916. Reader Geoffrey Wheeler.
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White.
with Richard Kershaw.
The third of William McIlvanney's Laidlaw detective novels is read in ten parts by Tom Watson.
Abridged by Trevor Royle
Based on the book by Douglas Adams. [sic]
It has been revealed to Arthur Dent that the earth has been built by the Magratheans and run by mice.
Producer Geoffrey Perkins
[NB in fact the book was based on this radio series]
In 1936, the Benny Goodman trio played with vibraphonist Lionel Hampton in an impromptu jam session and the Benny Goodman Quartet was formed. In the second of five programmes, Geoffrey Smith introduces recordings by this most exciting of the Goodman small groups. Producer Derek Drescher (First broadcast on Radio 3)
