The daily bulletin of rural current affairs. Producers John Harvey and Robin Maynard
with Rev Michael Blood.
with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys.
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.
Roy Porter remembers the comedians of the 1950s and finds them spectacularly unfunny - but socially heroic. Producer Julian Hale
Melvyn Bragg and guests with lively and stimulating conversation. Producer Mary Sharp
Isaiah. David Neal reads the 14th of 16 episodes from the Authorised Version. Music by Elizabeth Parker
Abridged by Yvonne Antrobus Producer Philip Martin
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: Strong Poison by Dorothy L Sayers (11).
Abridged by Sally Feldman
Editors Sally Feldman and Clare Selerie
with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Sarah Pennells
LINES OPEN from 10.00am
with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass
A four-part series based on the work of Stacy Aumonier.
2: A Source of Irritation. A Suffolk farm hand is snatched away from his turnips to the trenches of the First World War.
Dramatised by Martin Worth Director Matthew Walters
with James Naughtie.
Another chance to hear Lionel Davidson 's Golden Dagger Award-winning thriller of 1960. Young Nicolas Whistler becomes unwittingly involved in a dangerous spying mission in Prague.
Dramatised by Frederick Bradnum Director Matthew Walters
Sue MacGregor goes to Elmstead Market near Colchester to talk to Beth Chatto about her life and garden. Producer Gillian Hush
Natalie Wheen watches the television noir series Wild Palms (which starts on BBC2 tonight), set in a near future Los Angeles.
Producer Rachel Yorke
by Stacy Aumonier.
George's philosophy of life is simple: "People should stay in bed till they've found something worth doing." But then he meets Maisie.
Read by John Baddeley. Producer Matthew Walters
with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.
The feed coop's having teething problems.
A film noir style drama by Richard Bean , set in the pressure-cooker environment of experimental psychology labs.
A psychologist ends his work with rats and designs an experiment which recreates the social dynamics of the holocaust.
Director Andy Jordan
Three dots, three dashes, three dots signal SOS, the international distress call. In the first of three programmes Joanna Buchan pursues the development of morse code. Producer Julia Durbin
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White.
with Robin Lustig. Editor Anne Koch
Eileen Atkins reads the sixth of ten episodes from Virginia Woolf's little masterpiece.
Abridged by Yvonne Antrobus Producer John Theocharis
by Paul Mayhew-Archer . Starring John Gordon-Sinclair and Caroline Quentin.
6: Pantomime Cows. Robert lands a part in a pantomime cow.
Producer Paul Spencer (first broadcast on Radio 2)
