The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with Elizabeth Templeton.
With Brian Redhead and Peter Hobday. Details as yesterday plus: 7-45 Thought for the Day With Tom Butler.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
071-580 Producer Denis Nightingale LINES OPEN from 8.00am
Ezekiel. Final Part: "The Valley of the Bones".
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: The Very Dead of Winter (2)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
Producer Constance St Louis
with John Howard.
From plimsolls to peach melba, Peter Hobday puts his foot in it and tests the teams on the derivations of more Words and phrases. With Simon Brett , Frances Edmonds , Carole Hayman and Chris Stuart.
Producers Jo Clegg and Colin Swash
With James Naughtie.
Cartoonist Mel Calman's newest radio play is a dark comedy for the recession. It stars Richard Griffiths and has music specially written by Ronnie Scott.
A ventriloquist's doll, Bobby, and an argumentative saxophone share a shelf in a pawnshop.
Jeremy Nicholas visits Lady Barbirolli's home to explore her record collection. Producer Andrew Mussett
Mumtaz Akbar joins John Tovey in his Lancashire farmhouse kitchen to cook kharai chicken. Top cooks Neil Allen and Joan Bunting add their expertise to solve listeners' problems. Producer Gillian Hush
Robert Dawson Scott reads Derek
Raymond's novel Dead Man Upright and listens to Soul II Soul's collected hits. Producer Razia Iqbal
by George Ewart Evans.
On a nocturnal poaching expedition Acky Flatt comes back with rather more than he bargained for. Read by Peter Tuddenham. Producer Rosemary Watts
with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.
Another chance to hear the five-part adaptation of Susan Hill 's novel of family ties, friendship and loneliness, starring Patricia Hayes and Stephanie ACole.
1: A stranger attends a spinster's funeral.
Producer Lissa Evans
The new wall's alarming.
Reporter Stephen Titherington. Producer Lynne Jones
Big, burly, brutish Bluto, the omnipresent adversary of cartoon hero
Popeye, has had a raw deal according to comedy actor Craig Charles. Can he convince presenter Kathy Lette that underneath the beard Bluto is really a gentle, loving sort of chap? Producer Kate Boston
News and information for people with a visual handicap. With Peter White. Producer Eleanor Garland
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: tel [number removed] between 9.15pm and 10.15pm
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
Presented by Roger White.
Presented by Robin Lustig.
Part 4.
Joanna Coles explores the week's events in the media.
