The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with Dick Williams.
with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor. Details as yesterday plus:
with Charles Handy.
Producer Denis Nightingale LINES OPEN from 8.00am
Amos. Concluding selection.
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Mairead Devlin talks to women who have recently converted to Roman Catholicism, including MP Anne Widdecombe and writer Sara Maitland.
Serial: The Very Dead of Winter (7)
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the research laboratory to the GP's surgery.
Producer Sue Broom
With John Howard.
What is a five-finger discount? Peter Hobday gives the answer, discusses the meaning of funkstick and dispenses some medicinal word derivations for the panel to ponder. With David Thomas , Lorelei King , Andy Hamilton and Rosie Boycott. Producer Jo Clegg
With James Naughtie.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm)
Another chance to hear Derry-based writer Jack Houlahan 's first play, joint third prizewinner at this year's Prix Italia. Sometimes we yearn for a magic wand to change our lives completely. This play is about such a moment of longing.
Music Neil Martin
Director Pam Brighton
This week Jeremy Nicholas visits John Peel 's home and explores his record collection in search of musical and personal revelations. Producer Andrew Mussett
Desserts are the subject when John Tovey visits Vanessa Binns in her Cheshire kitchen to exchange ideas and to answer listeners' cookery queries with the help of Colin Cooper English and Nigel Haworth. Producer Gillian Hush
Gill Pyrah picks up the best of this year's fiction and reports on the first night of Piaf, directed by Peter Hall.
Producer Chris Eldon Lee (Revised repeat 9.15pm)
by Rhys Davies. To beat the boredom of their small Welsh home town, two boys develop an unusual hobby. Read by lestyn Jones. Producer Jane Dauncey
with Jon Sopel and Hugh Sykes.
Episode two of Susan Hill 's wryly observed study of friendship and family ties in a small English village.
Music by Peter Salem
Adapted by Bill Matthews Producer Lissa Evans
Some Christmas spirit for Brian.
Last in the present series. Reporter Terry Dignan. Producer David Haggie
lago was Shakespeare's vilest villain? Well, not according to Robert Stephens who knows that to play him well the actor must empathise with his situation. Can .Robert persuade Kathy Lette that lago meant no real harm ... events just got out of hand.
Producer Kate Boston
News, views and information for listeners with a visual handicap. Presented by Tony Barringer.
Producer Eleanor Garland
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(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
Presented by Roger White.
Presented by Robin Lustig.
Part 2.
with Joanna Coles.
