The daily bulletin of rural current affairs. Producers John Harvey and Ruth Kiely

A meditation for the beginning of a new day, with Walter Beasley.

with Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday.
6.45 Business News
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Lionel Blue

Peter Dixon presents a potpourri of lost British places, past times and institutions.
1. Air Raid Shelters (circa 1940) Producer Ronni Davis

with Melvyn Bragg and guests. Producer Mary Sharp

Mark. Read in seven episodes by Juliet Stevenson from the Revised English Bible. 5: Christ the Teacher. Abridged by Michael Carroll
Producer Christine Morgan

Jenni Murray talks to the American author Kate Roiphe, who questions the notion of date rape.
Serial: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Janet McTeer reads the tenth of 20 parts.
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Editor Sally Feldman

with Vincent Duggleby. Producer Frances Macdonald
LINES OPEN from 10.00am

with John Howard. Editor Ken Vass

Musical panel game. John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden. In the chair: Steve Race. Producer Richard Edis

with James Naughtie.

by Stephanie Miller , Based on atrue story of young love which is determined it shall not fail.
Director Enyd Williams

2: William Shakespeare. John Florance meets actors Nigel Cooke , David Suchet and Chris Harris , who have all portrayed Shakespeare. They discuss what it is like to embody their greatest hero and how to characterise the practical man of the theatre who was also a playwright of genius.
Producer Rosie Boulton

The first of four programmes in which Armando lannucci steps cautiously into a world of extremes.
1: Homo Freneticus. There are only 25 hours in the day. Armando tries to keep up with the high-fliers who, equipped with fax, portable phone and time management manual, make full use of every waking moment. Producer Brian King

Natalie Wheen looks at the work of John Tavener prior to a major festival of his music. In the studio, guitarist John Williams and composer Richard Harvey give ataste of a new concerto for guitar and orchestra. Producer Robyn Read

by Michael Carson. Jack collects fossils and Hilda only knits. But her interests widen after her husband passes away. And she now knows what to do with all those "rocks". Read by David Horovitch. Producer Duncan Minshull

with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.

Nicholas Parsons and his guests try to talk for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

Mother's ruin.

by Christopher Reason. As a boy, Alex's fantasy was that his father was the reaHife Captain Hurricane from the comic Valiant. With the Gulf war looming, his father suffers a stroke, and the trauma of childhood returns.
Director Kate Rowland

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White.

with Robin Lustig.

John Osborne 's highly acclaimed first volume of autobiography is read in ten parts by Peter Egan to accompany the broadcast of five of the author's plays over the next three weeks. 1: No Pride in Real Gentry Producer Glyn Dearman

The polar regions still exercise a great fascination but what are the difficulties that travellers face? With
Sir Vivian Fuchs , Sir Alexander Glen , Chris Furse , Robert Swan and Charles Burton.
Producers Miranda Mclntyre and Alastair Wilson