The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
A meditation for the beginning of a new day with the Very Rev Tom Wright , Dean of Lichfield Cathedral.
with Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rosemary Hartill.
8.40 Yesterday In Parliament
John Waite investigates....
Nobody gets it right all the time ... John Humphrys talks to people who have weathered major storms in their careers. 3: MickaelMates. The Security Minister for Northern Ireland talks about his defence of the renegade businessman Asil Nadir which embarrassed the Government and forced him to resign. Producer Alison Perks
John. Part 9.
LadyAntonia Fraser joins Jenni Murray for a reappraisal of the life of Mary Queen of Scots.
Serial: Limestone andClay (4)
BBC correspondents around the world take a sideways look at their host countries. Producer Geoff Spink
with Tasneem Siddiqi.
Paul Boateng discusses the lighter side of history with his guests Sir Roy Strong , Gillian Reynolds , Trevor Philips and Michael Wood. Producer Kathy Smith
with James Naughtie.
A love story by Catherine Czerkawska.
When English-born Emily comes to Poland, she finds a country, like a leaf in amber, caught and held in its past. She falls in love with Poland, and with Adam her Polish cousin. But can she ever become part of the country, and change as it changes?
Piano music by Trevor Allan Davies Director Marilyn Imrie
Paul Allen visits the Tramway, Glasgow, to encounter an adventurous production of Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw. His studio guest is the playwright Jonathan Harvey.
Producer Clare McGinn (Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
by Ivy Bannister.
Kate is a photographer. Her new assignment is to shoot pigs, but what happens when the pig owner starts to dominate the frame? Read by Noelle Brown. Producer Pam Brighton
with Chris Lowe and Hugh Sykes.
The Empire's favourite magazine is back for its third print-run, with a thrilling wartime edition. Is your journey really necessary? Do you know your submarines? Are you bored with your biscuits? And above all - are you German? Find out with Susie Brann , Alistair McGowan , Mary Elliot-Nelson , Julian Dutton and Peter Baynham. Producer Sarah Smith
7.00 News
There's a party atmosphere in Ambridge.
5. War Photographer. Tom Stoddart , international documentary photographer, is fighting for recovery after being critically injured while under fire in Bosnia. After ten months off work, he must test himself again-this time in Angola, photographing British nurses destined for the front line. A Wilko production
Counting Our Chickens?
The nuclear menace is apparently waning as Russian and American arsenals are cut and Ukraine agrees to eliminate its missiles. But Stuart Simon asks if old regional tensions and easier access to nuclear capabilities mean the dangers of proliferation are now greater than ever. Producer Simon Coates
Presented by Ted Harrison. Producer Marlene Pease
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(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White.
with Richard Kershaw.
Episode 6.
Poetry is traditionally associated with self-expression, yet John Milton gave a voice to Satan, as did Robert Browning to the murderous Porphyria's lover.
Andrew McAllister discusses subjectivity in poetry with poets Glyn Maxwell and Jo Shapcott.
Producer Sally Marmion
