The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

A meditation for the beginning of a new day with Margaret Martyn.

with Sue MacGregor and John Humphrys. Details as yesterday plus:

with Oliver McTeman.

Producer Denis Nightingale LINES OPEN from 8.00am

Mark. 6: The Last Supper.

Naomi Wolf tells Jenni Murray how women can become winners in the 21st century. And the best of yeastless dough - how to make Irish brown soda bread. Serial: North and South(11)

Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
Producer Constance St Louis

with John Howard.

The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author by Basil Boothroyd , starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife.
Book 4, Chapter 3: The Technology With Edward Kelsey
Producer Bobby Jaye

with James Naughtie.

by Audrey Evans. Miss Stone, known to her pupils as "Mossy", has reached retirement. Aghast at the idea of speeches in the staffroom, she volunteers to take detention. The last of the pupils, Kevin, concludes his imposition but refuses to leave. Miss Stone cannot leave without him, so she needs to find out why he will not go home alone.
Director Hamish Wilson

Andrew Green invites the cellist and conductor Heinrich Schiff to choose music which reflects the character and spirit of his native Austria.
Producer Gillian Hush

Alun Lewis asks if technology can clean up the environment.

Paul Vaughan reads Lindsey Clarke 's new novel, and talks to author Michael Crichton about his novel Disclosure.
Producer Anthony Denselow (Revised repeat 9. 15pm)

by Nadine Gordimer. "He was only 26 and very healthy, and he was soon strong enough to be wheeled out into the garden. The feeling was that there, in the garden, he would come to an understanding." Read by Eileen McCallum.

with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.

The second of sixepisodes, written by Christopher Lee.
The future of the Party faithful is threatened when an anonymous letter arrives at the House of Commons.

Antique antics.

Throughout history, snakes have been symbols of both religious belief and sexuality inspiring mixed emotions of horror, fear, admiration and reverence. What is it about them that stirs the deepest recesses of the human psyche? Producer Edwina Wolstencroft

In the last programme of the series, veteran actor Charles Simon, the final Dr Dale, remembers the golden days of seaside song plugging at Blackpool, the joys of a wet matinee and taking insurance against the sun.

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap. With Peter White. Producer Eleanor Garland
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(Revised repeat of 4. 05pm)

with Roger White.

with Alexander MacLeod.

2: 1 Don't Want to End Up in a Dead-and-Alive Hole

Joanna Coles explores the week's events in the media.