The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

with Father Paul Symonds.

with Graham Leach and Sue MacGregor. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Donald English. Editor Roger Mosey

Final episode: Meeting the Beast.

In the first of a series of six talks about America, and the image
Americans have of themselves, the influential film critic Michael Medved argues that Hollywood distorts the picture that most of us have of the United States.
Producer Geoff Spink

Matthew. Part 9.

Introduced from Manchester by Ruth Pitt. Serial: North and South (4)

Presented by Kelvin Boot.
Producer Simn Roberts

withTasneemSiddiqi.
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The show that investigates the good, the bad and the tasteless. Presented by Derek Cooper.
Producer Sheila Dillon

with Nick Clarke.
Editor Kevin Marsh

I First in a four-part dramatisation of Sir Walter Scott 's great novel of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.
1: Red Coat- White Cockade.

Simon Parkes visits Majorca in the first of four programmes looking at the world's creative communities. Here he finds the community which grew up around the poet Robert Graves and includes musicians like Kevin Ayers , the film actor Michael Douglas and vacationing poets like Brian Patten.
Producer David Prest

In the first of a series that looks at the effect of religion on the beliefs and writings of authors, Rosemary Hartill looks at the turbulent political, literary and spiritual life of Dr Jonathan Swift , 18th-century Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, and one of Britain's greatest rhetorical writers. Reader Bryan Murray.
Producer Amanda Hancox

Tim Marlow talks to A S Byatt and other studio guests about the influence of Matisse on their work.
Producer Beaty Rubens

by Evelyn Conlon. Meeting old friends would be a joy for Sadhbh, if only they didn't bring old memories with them. Read by Frances Tomelty. Producer Michael Quinn

with Chris Lowe and Hugh Sykes. Editor Margaret Budy
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with Janet Trewin and Peter Macann.

Bottling out?
Written by Mary Cutler
Director Vanessa Whitbum

with Chris Serle.
Producer Tessa Watt

David Green , Director of VSO, and Charles Kennedy , MP, President of the Liberal Democrats, tackle the issues raised in Walsall, West Midlands.
Chairman Jonathan Dimbleby.
ProducerNickUtechin

3: Anne Kelleher meets Somerset-born
Dr Virginia Bolton , a young embryologist whose research helps people overcome the problems of infertility. Producer Joy Hatwood

Part 2. Tim Marlow presents a further half hour of the best Kaleidoscope live sessions from 1993.
Producer Neil Trevithick

Presented by Robin Lustig. Editor Ann Koch

Final part.

with Sally Grace and Co.
Producer Aled Evans

A lopsided view of birth, death, life and all the other merry bits in between.
Simon Hoggart and friends set about writing wrongs.
Producer Anne-Marie Cole

Mark Steyn delves into the BBC's sound archives and suggests his own policy for monarchies in trouble. Producer Noah Richler