The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with Bishop Jim Thompson.
with James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Omar Hegadus.
2: Waugh in Abyssinia. In 1935, Evelyn Waugh covered the Abyssinian war for the Daily Mail. He was a hopeless journalist but from the experience came Scoop.
Talk to Nick Ross and his guests on an issue of the moment. Producer Denis Nightingale LINES OPEN from 8.00am
2: Thomas Kempe 's Poltergeist. The ghost of Thomas Kempe recruits James as his apprentice and gets him into trouble.
Introduced by Jenni Murray.
What do you do when your hair falls out? Cheryl Armitage meets women who are facing the growing problem of alopecia. Serial: Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald. First of ten parts read by Penelope Wilton .
London, 1940: Britain is at war, and in BBC Broadcasting House, patriotism means business as usual. But change is in the air.
Abridged by David Dortand Editor Sally Feldman
Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care.
Producer Anne McNaught
with John Howard.
Nigel Rees chairs the quotation quiz with this week's celebrity guests: Helen Atkinson Wood, Andrew Davies, Chris Kelly and Jim Sweeney. For the first time, Peter Barker reads the quotations.
with Nick Clarke.
In Collin Johnson's comedy, a retired gent, Julius Hutch, is beset with bills and final demands. Then a sum of £4,601,740.72 is mistakenly placed in his account by an offshore bank. So, should he return it? Or not? And whose money is it, anyway?
- In the first of the series, identical twins Claire and Antoinette Cann talk to Richard Baker about their emerging careers as duo pianists, and introduce some of their recorded repertoire.
Producer Ray Abbott
Gerry Anderson invites you to join him for an hour of daily live action and stories and opinions from around the country. PHONE: [number removed]
In an all-American edition, Gill Pyrah gets the verdict on new novels by John Updike and Paul Auster , and Fraser Harrison visits the world's largest sculpture - Crazy Horse Mountain, South Dakota. Producer Tim Dee
(Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
A week of stories taken from the new
BBC collection.
Tam O'Shan ter by Donna Tartt. Read by Harry Towb.
Producer Duncan Minshull
with Linda Lewis and Jon Sopel.
Industrial intrigue, infighting and idiocy. On this week's panel are Peter Day , Howard Hodgson , Alastair Ross Goobey and Janette Rutterford. The chairman is Nigel Cassidy.
Producer Neil Koenig
Tolly's big day.
Jenny Cuffe reports in the last of the series.
Alun Lewis takes a biological view of chocolate.
2: Things Fall Apart. From Catch 22 to Dispatches, cult books have confronted the absurdity and ugliness of warfare. From Last Exit to Brooklyn to American Psycho they have ventured into the darkness at the heart of the collapsing social and urban order. Featuring Joseph Heller , Hubert Selby Junior , Michael Herr and Bret Easton Ellis.
Producer Martin Buckley
News and information for listeners with a visual disability.With Tony Barringer.
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS: phone [number removed] between 9.15pm and 10.15pm
FACTSHEET: send large sae to [address removed]
HANDBOOK: £16.50, from [address removed]
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Sheena McDonald.
Part 2.
(For detaiis see yesterday)
Presented by Joanna Coles.
2: Party Politics. As the West pushes democracy onto client states, some travellers see the testing time of elections as the right time to travel, work and get to know a place. Simon Calder presents features from Cambodia and Tanzania. Producer Noah Richler
