The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with Bishop Joe Devine.
with John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Sister Lavinia Byrne.
Michael Buerk chairs a live investigation into the moral questions behind the week's news. Witnesses face cross-examination from Janet Daley , Rabbi Hugo Gryn , Edward Pearce and Roger Scruton. Producer David Coomes
Jenni Mills talks to people who were famous for a short period of time and finds out what became of them.
2: Keith Best, MP. hit the headlines in 1987 for pleading guilty to making multiple BT share applications. Producer Sarah Rowlands
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Romans. Part 4.
In a special edition from Rome on the eve of the Italian elections, Jenni Murray meets the women at the hustings, on the catwalk, in the courts, and in the kitchen.
BBC correspondents from around the wortd take a sideways look at their host countries.
Producer Geoff Spink
withTasneemSiddiqi.
Joining Paul Boateng to take a none-too-serious look at history are guests Patrick Moore , Andrew Neil , John Pearson and Jan Ravens.
Producer Kathy Smith
An optimistic drama by Frank White.
It's a black night for landlord Sam Fulton. His wife's done a bunk, the bank and brewery are after him, his customers face ruin and it's been snowing or raining for days. Can anything else go wrong?
Director Tony Cliff
Paul Allen sees Tim Supple 's production of Omma -Oedipus and the Luck of Thebes at the Young Vic , and visits Moving Theatre at Bridge Lane, set up by Corin and Vanessa Redgrave. Producer Abigail Appleton
(Revised repeat at 9.15pm)
by Lilian Roberts Finlay.
The Love-Gift cost Ned L6.50, but it cost his wife 40 years of marriage. Read by Mark Mulholland . Producer Michael Quinn
Howdee y'all! This week there's a special American edition of your favourite magazine and a free apple pie with every issue. With Susie Brann , Alistair McGowan , Mary Elliot-Nelson , Julian Dutton and Peter Baynham. Producer Sarah Smith
Scandal at the dress rehearsal.
Yesterday's Hero. Paul Petersen , an ex-child star, found himself a has-been at 25. He now runs the Minor Consideration, a support group for young actors having problems adjusting to life after teen stardom. Reporter Veronica Reinhardt. Producer Cathie Mahoney
"National competitiveness" is suddenly all the rage among politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. In the last of the series, Stuart Simon asks what this new preoccupation will mean for jobs, wages and industrial performance.
Producer Simon Coates
Presented by Ted Harrison. Producer Marlene Pease
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(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Roger White.
with Robin Lustig.
9: Obo and tlie Snake
Robert Frost said, "Poetry is what gets lost in translation," but translation has made a wealth of poetry from many languages and cultures available to the modern reader. Elaine Feinstein and Michael Hamburger , who have translated the work of Russian and German poets, discuss their art with Andrew McAllister.
Producer Sally Marmion
