The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
With Andrew Barr.
With John Humphrys and Peter Hobday.
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, the lure of the Costas: a package holiday disaster from Arthur Scargill and the remarkable beer bellies of Majorca.
Producer David Prest
With Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Mary Sharp
Song of Solomon. The first of two parts, read by Robert Stephens and Cathy Tyson. Abridged by Doreen Mahon Producer Ned Chaillet
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Serial: The Quick (3)
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selene
with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Frances MacDonald LINES OPEN from 10.00am
with Michael Collie. Editor Ken Vass
The London team, Irene Thomas and Eric Kom , take on the Midlands team of Peter Oppenheimer and John Julius Norwich. Questionmasters are Gordon Clough and Tony Quinton.
Producer Julia Shaw
with James Naughtie.
by Melissa Murray.
Naomi Wall poisoned three members of her family and disappeared. A researcher, working on a book about crimes committed by women, becomes obsessed by the case.
Director Cherry Cookson
In the last of the series, author David Stafford discovers that Britain's ivory towers have been invaded by the likes of Kylie Minogue and Madonna. Producer Ian Peacock
A Mandy Wheeler Sound productions
The last in a series of converstions with scientists. Barbara Myers talks to Russell Stannard , professor of Physics at the Open University, about his thoughts on science and religion and about his books for children. Producer Deborah Cohen
Natalie Wheen visits the Royal Ballet's s new triple bill, choreographed by William Tuckett , Matthew Hart and William Forsythe. Also Jan Murray reports on 1993 Dance Umbrella. Producer Jerome Weatherald (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
Herm dreams of horses and escape from his father's butcher's shop in this story of small-town America by Bernard Malamud.
Read by Harry Towb.
Producer Sarah Kilgarriff (First broadcast on Radio 3)
with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.
Chairman Barry Took quizzes team captains Richard Ingrams and Alan Coren and their guests. Producer Jon Naismith
Everyone's feeling rock bottom.
Can there be good food in Britain's fast food outlets, restaurants and cafes when most of them pay slave wages? Marya Burgess investigates greed, contempt and corruption in the catering business. Presented by Derek Cooper.
A powerful drama by Mike Harris that is based on a real-life incident.
Kenya 1929: at a Methodist mission station tensions develop between the missionaries and the Kikuyu people as the time for female ritual circumcision draws near.
Director Adrian Bean
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Heather Payton.
with Robin Lustig.
The last reading from this year's Booker Prize shortlist. Tonight, The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields is read by Tina Gray. Producer David Hunter
(A further extract from the winning novel can be heard tomorrow at 10.45pm)
An Actor's Life for Me by Paul Mayhew-Archer . Starring John Gordon-Sinclair and Caroline Quentin.
3: Separate Troubles. Robert and Sue have fallen out.Will they sort things out? Producer Paul Spencer
