Daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

with Rev Noel Battye.

with Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor.
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Pauline Webb.

by Sue Townsend.
The fourth of eight episodes. Abridged by Elizabeth Proud Producer John Tydeman

with Melvyn Bragg and guests for some stimulating conversation. Producer Mary Sharp

Proverbs. Hannah Gordon and David Suchet read the final selection from the authorised version.
Abridged by Geoffrey Beevers Director Martin Jenkins .

Introduced by Jenni Murray.

Serial: Mrs De Winter (6).

[number removed]with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Frances MacDonald LINES OPEN from 10.00am

with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass

The London team, Irene Thomas and Eric Korn , take on the Welsh team of Jack Jones and Peter Stead. Questionmasters Gordon Clough and Tony Quinton.
Producer Julia Shaw

with James Naughtie.

John M Hull , Professor of Religion at Birmingham University, went blind at the age of 40 in 1980. This is his personal account of the experience of blindness.
Piano: Stuart Hutchinson. Dramatised by Jane Coles Director Matthew Walters. IRpt)

Author David Stafford explores alcohol research, gets drunk under laboratory conditions and meets an egyptologist who makes the beer of the pharaohs. Producer Ian Peacock
Mandy Wheeler Sound Productions

Professor Sir Richard Doll , one of Britain's greatest living medical scientists, best known for showing the connection between lung cancer and smoking, talks to Barbara Myers. Producer Deborah Cohen

The first new production of the season at the Royal Opera House, Wagner's Mastersingers is reviewed. Also reviewed: Ken Campbell 's play Jamais Vu. Presented by Robert Dawson Scott. Producer Beaty Rubens (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)

by Mary Flanagan.
What's hairy, bouncy and should have stayed in Greece? Read by Maggie Steed. Producer Duncan Minshull

with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.

on the effects of junk food on children. Producer Sheila Dillon

Gary Mitchell's new play provides some insights into the situation in Belfast as it follows the efforts of two idealistic young men to set up a community newspaper.
Director Pam Brighton

Adrian Mourby concludes his look at life among the Silkies (Single Income and Lots of Kids).2: Workingfrom Home

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White.

with Robin Lustig.

Desmond Oliver Dingle , the alter-ego of Patrick Barlow , starts his controversial five-part expose on the real identity of Shakespeare.
Producer David Benedictus

An Actor's Life for Me by Paul Mayhew-Archer . Starring John Gordon-Sinclair and Caroline Quentin.
1: A Stiff Audition. Actor Robert Wilson is desperately seeking work. When an audition comes up, he doesn't have to stick rigidly to the script -just be rigid. Producer Paul Spencer

First in a four-part comedy series starring and written by Graham Fellows and being broadcast over the next four nights. Part sitcom, part soap, the series eavesdrops on the comfortable semi-detached world of John Shuttleworth, an aspiring songwriter.
1: Cotton Buddies. From the comfort of his Sheffield semi, John plans a chart-topping hit, but there's a problem - the heads of his tape recorder need cleaning. Producer Paul Schlesinger