The daily bulletin of rural current affairs. Producers John Harvey and Robin Maynard
with Andrew Barr.
with Brian Redhead and Graham Leach.
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Pauline Webb.
Pete McCarthy travels through the BBC Sound Archives in search of holidays Past. This week, staying at home, and an answer to the eternal question: saucy Postcards - how saucy can they be? Producer David Prest
with Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Mary Sharp
Job. Joss Ackland reads the fifth of seven selections from the authorised version. Abndged by Doreen Mahon Producer Michael Fox
with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Sarah Pennells
LINES OPEN from 10.00am
With John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
The London team of Irene Thomas and Eric Korn take on the Scottish team of Joyce McMillan and Colin Bell. Questionmasters are Gordon Clough and TonyQuinton.
Producer Julia Shaw (Repeated Wednesday at 6.30pml
with James Naughtie.
Nan Woodhouse 's moving story of a Quaker and a Catholic trying to reconcile their love and different beliefs in the intolerant world of 17th-century England.
Director Tony Cliff
Author David Stafford investigates the sex lives and drug habits of spiders, meets some detective maggots and discovers that you can outrun a wasp but not a bee.
Producer Ian Peacock
Mandy Wheeler Sound productions
Barbara Myers talks to Professor Kay Davies , director of the new MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, about her life and her work on genetic diseases. Producer Deborah Cohen
Natalie Wheen 's studio guest is the singer Thomas Allen. Also reviews of Sophie Treadwell 's Machinal at the National Theatre and an appreciation of Bruce Chatwin 's photography. Producer Tim Dee
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
by Satyajit Ray.
He's walking home and the lights go off. Everywhere. And that's when things start to get rather strange. Read by Sam Dastor. Translated by Gopa Majumdar Producer Duncan Minshull
Sid is bullish about the future.
Derek Cooper investigates how sickness is related to what Glaswegians eat, and talks to people trying to change the deadly culinary heritage of poverty. Producer Sheila Dillon
by Ellen Dryden.
Childhood memories and perhaps something a little more sinister continue to draw Ben Wheeler back to a lake. When a child disappears his obsession provokes suspicion.
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Heather Payton.
with Robin Lustig.
This year's 25th-anniversary £ 20,000 Booker Prize for Fiction will be awarded on Tuesday 26 October. On each of the next six weekday nights an extract from one of the shortlisted novels is being broadcast.
Tonight Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle is read by Dermot Crowley. Producer David Hunter
Another chance to hear some of the radio comedies that television couldn't resist.
An Actor's Life for Me by Paul Mayhew-Archer . Starring John Gordon-Sinclair and Caroline Quentin.
2: / Can Do That. Young actor Robert Wilson gets a film role as a chauffeur. What a pity he can't drive. Producer Paul Spencer
