The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with Father Paul Symonds.
with Brian Redhead and Sue MacGregor. Details as Monday plus:
with Elaine Storkey.
3: Hugh and the Esbath.
with Libby Purves and Brian Hayes. Producer Lucy Cacanas
Matthew. Part 7.
Introduced byJenni Murray. Serial: North and South (2)
with John Howard.
A six-part mystery serial by Peter Whalley.
1: The Gillians have everything-money, a good marriage, happy children. A letter blackmailing the husband seems like an absurd joke.
Director Tony Cliff
with James Naughtie.
Eight further exploits of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 's great detective, starring Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr Watson.
1: Wisteria Lodge. Mr Scott Eccles wakes to find his host and all his domestic staff have vanished. And downstairs the police find grim evidence of voodoo rites.
Violinist Leonard Friedman
Dramatised by Bert Coules. Director Patrick Rayner
Six talks in which Sue Phillips muses on the curious lives of everyday edibles.
1: Tea. "Tea drinking corrupts small boys ... and is no bad preparatory school for the brothel," so said William Cobbett. Our soothing national beverage has sent strong men to the top of Tibet, been imbibed with wine and gizzards and has a history of smuggling, skulduggery and scandal.
Producer Amanda Mares
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Another chance to hear Tim Sebastian 's searching four-part investigation of the role of the international "enterprise" crook. 1. Oh, Those Russians - Moscow's Powerful "Mafia".
Brian Sibley sees the joint winner of the Cannes film festival, Farewell My Concubine, and asks whether anyone outside London will see it.
Producer Lore Windemuth (Revisedrepeatat9.15pm)
Final part. Henry is well and truly at the mercy of his cleaning ladies.
with Chris Lowe and Hugh Sykes.
A women's panel game that deals with the ancient female art of problem solving in the wittiest way.Chaired by Frances Edmonds with team captains Jo Brand and Jan Ravens and guests Rebecca Front and Lorelei King. Producer Liz Anstee
Question time in Ambridge.
John Waite returns with the series in which he and his team of investigators follow up listeners' complaints.
Editor Graham Ellis
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Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
Once again correspondents around the world explore their hopes, fears and insights about what 1994 holds in store. Topics include democratic change blowing through Africa; Europe blighted by debt, recession and unemployment; and the Middle East poised for precarious peace. In the chair: David McNeil. Producer Howard Rogers
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
Presented by Alexander Macleod.
Part 6.
In the first of his new six-part series, Simon Brett picks diary extracts for New Year's Eve. Thomas Moore greets 1919 with lobsters, oysters and champagne; Peter Hall has a quieter time tucked up in bed with the biography of Noel Coward in 1976; and in 1947 Cecil Beaton toasts the New
Year with 100-year-old whisky.
Readers Sean Barrett and Miriam Margolyes.
Stephen Jameson joins the queue to find out if this good old British tradition went out with the ration book. Who are the queue jumpers in society and what would you do if someone elbowed you out of the way?
