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

with the Very Rev Gilleasbuig Macmillan.

with Peter Hobday and James Naughtie.
6.45 Business News
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day with Rev Dr John Newton.

Is the reality of coal-mining anything like the picture painted by writers, reporters and film-makers? Kim Howells investigates the uneasy relationship between miners and the media.
Producer Joanne Cayford

Melvyn Bragg and guests with lively and stimulating conversation. Producer Mary Sharp

Romans. The first of six parts read by Roger McGough. Introduced by John Drane. Abndged by Delia Paton
Producer Michael Roberts

Jenni Murray meets the legendary jazz singer turned film star Annie Ross.
Serial: Madame Doubtfire (3) by Anne Fine. Read in five parts by Stephen Tompkinson. Abridged by Meg Clarke Editor Sally Feldman

Vincent Duggleby takes your calls on a topical issue that affects your finances. Producer Frances MacDonald
LINES OPEN from 10.00am

with John Howard.
Editor Ken Vass

Ned Sherrin conducts heat six of the wide-ranging musical quiz. This week, from Huddersfield Town Hall.
Producer Jo Clegg

Foreign travel on the cheap can be a strain when you don't speak the language, as Val and Trev discover in Douglas Esson 's fraught comedy.
Director Matthew Walters

Gerry Anderson invites you to join him for an hour of daily live action. Add your views to the mix of debate, opinions and stories from around the country. Call him on [number removed]. Editor Sharon Banoff

Two of the year's big pop albums - from Morrissey and Elvis Costello ; Janacek at the Royal Opera House; devotional singing from Pakistan; and a new translation of Dante's Inferno.
Producer Anthony Denselow (Revised rpt at 9.1 5pm)

by George MacDonald Fraser.
A two-part story featuring the further adventures of the celebrated cavalry officer Harry Flashman.
Read by lain Cuthbertson .
1: Our hero is caught with his trousers down in a London club. Producer Bruce Young
(First broadcast on Radio Scotland. Part 2 is tomorrow)

Last in the series.

Lynda's Snowflakes are missing.
Archers producer Vanessa Whitburn talks to AMson Pearson SEE FEATURE page 36

Presented by Derek Cooper.

Nigel D Moffatt 's play, a shrewd, affectionate portrayal of a woman from Britain's black community, won the Samuel Beckett Award in 1985. It was first produced by Temba Theatre Company at Birmingham Repertory Theatre by Alby James who has directed this adaptation.
Mamma Decemba 's husband has just died. Much of what she experiences in her grief is recognisable to us all.

In the first of three talks,
Peter Harrison reflects on some of the things he once believed in. 1: Cures. Nowadays, Peter eyes his lean, healthy-looking GP with suspicion. Producer Gillian Hush

(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with Roger White.

with Max Pearson.

Brian Keenan reads the sixth part of his own extraordinary account of his four-and-a-halfyears as a hostage in the Lebanon. 6: On the Move. Keenan's relationship with John McCarthy develops. Abridged in ten parts by the author Producer Pam Brighton (Rptj

Another chance to hear the three-part series featuring the confessions of a reluctant emigrant.
1: Leaving Pains. In June 1990, Rosemary Greenham , her partner Alan Hancock and their 2-year old daughter Eleanor left Birmingham to take up a job opportunity in Perth, Western Australia. Alan went first, followed by the others two weeks later. Rosemary recorded it all. Producer Gwyn Richards