The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with Dr Haddon Willmer.
With Peter Hobday in London and John Humphrys in Brighton.
6.45 Business News
7-25. 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With The Rt Rev Vincent Nichols.
3: Picking and Pickers
With Libby Purves and Brian Hayes. Producer Lucy Cacanas
1, Part three. Read by David Suchet.
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Of the eight plays written by Fanny Burney only one reached the stage. Why did dramatic success elude such a popular novelist?
Story: from The Quick by Agnes Rossi.
With John Howard.
by Peter Kerry.
6: Molecatclier. New Year's Eve 1960. here's a mole about, and it's time it was tracked down.
Producer Lissa Evans
with Nick Clarke and James Naughtie.
4: The Missing Time-Quarter. On the eve of the Oxford v Cambridge rugby football match, a vital player disappears.
Violinist Leonard Friedman Dramatised by Roger Danes Director Patrick Rayner
Les Woodland meets Joan Barrett -
Leonard.
Reporter Mark Halliley.
Lucie Skeaping visits the coast of Yorkshire, where she goes out to sea with the "Brid fiddler", comes back in time to don her clogs - and learns to love car songs and skiffle.
Brian Sibley with the best of the new releases on video, the verdict on Like Water for Chocolate (which has become the highest grossing foreign language film in American history), and the renewed hunt for long lost television programmes - missing, believed wiped. Producer Julian May
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
A story taken from the author's new collection, it describes a mans adventure with infatuation - at
Charles de Gaulle
Airport. Read by David Horovitch Translated by Edith Grossman Producer Duncan Minshull
with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.
London v the North.
John Waite investigates ... Editor Graham Ellis
WRITE TO: Face the Facts. BBC Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA.
Professor Anthony Clare talks to novelist Ruth Rendell. Plus: the fear of performing.
Rosemary Hartill looks at how George Eliot 's agnostic beliefs shaped her novels. Reader Jane Lapotaire. Producer Amanda Hancox
Poisoned Profits. Peter Day investigates whether EC environmental legislation will make Europe a healthier place - or bankrupt the businesses that own land affected by years of drip by drip contamination. Who pays the billions of pounds' clean-up bill?
Producer Robert McKenzie
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
Presented by Roger White.
with Alexander MacLeod in London and Robin Lustig at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton. Editor Anne Koch
Episode 8.
Four programmes in which Mark Tully gets the people of South
Asia to give their own surprising perspectives on the countries from which he has been reporting for the past 25 years.
1: Fundamentally Wrong. Should politics be dominated by religion? In the Muslim state of Pakistan, not all believers think so.
The fourth of five extraordinarily convincing stories. My Discovery.
Written and read by Peter Jones. Producer Pete Atkin
