The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
with Rev Ruth Scott from Richmond Team
Ministry.
with James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Details as Monday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Jim Thompson.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
with Libby Purves and Brian Hayes. Producer Lucy Cacanas
An Antliobgy of Spiritual Verse. A selection of poetry on the theme of doubt. Producer David Benedictus
with Jenni Murray.
Serial: The Diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner. Final part.
with John Howard.
by Christopher Fitz-Simon .
Third of sixepisodes set in Ballylenon, Co Donegal, in 1953. Vera's value as an eavesdropper for Phonsie Doherty is threatened when Dublin informs her that her exchange must go automatic.
Music by Stephanie Hughes. Director Eoin O'Callaghan
with James Cox.
Jonathan Smith 's four-part story of a successful headmaster running an independent school in London.
3: A Political Animal. One of Patrick's most valued members of staff is having an affair which is documented by both colleagues and pupils. Patrick's relationship with his attractive publisher remains secret, but conflict with his deputy is coming to a head.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin
Tony Ross , writer and illustrator of I Want My Potty and I Want to Be ....shows Michael Rosen his amusing ways with picture books. Producer Jill Burridge
Call Gerry Anderson on [number removed].
Was lovable old Uncle Walt not so lovable after all? Mark Steyn investigates a new biography, Walt Disney - Hollywood's Dark Prince. Plus a report on John Schlesinger 's new film, The Innocent, released this week. And they're back - Robocop 3 and Beverley Hills Cop 3. Producer Paul Quinn (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
A tale of one man's adventure with infatuation - at Charles de Gaulle airport. Read by David Horovitch. Translated by Edith Grossman Producer Duncan Minshull
with Linda Lewis and Hugh Sykes.
First Round North West of England. Jim Banks (British Council officer); Phil Cocker (retired lecturer); Rob Hughes (surveyor for Valuation Office Agency, Inland Revenue); John Clarke (university lecturer).
Cider with Sharon.
John Waite investigates.... Editor Graham Ellis
WRITE TO: Face the Facts, BBC Broadcasting House London W1A 1AA.
with Geoff Watts.
Jez Nelson presents the lively magazine programme that covers all the latest in science and technology. Producer Sue Broom
2: The 1 790s: The Rights Wrongs) of Man. The coming of the French Revolution polarises opinion in Britain. Radicals like Tom Paine and the young William Wordsworth welcome the new libertarianism emanating from France and write in extravagant terms about the new dawn they think it represents. Many also lyricise the latest industrial technologies of the day. Others, like Edmund Burke , argue that rapid change is not in itself a good thing and fear the destructiveness of the French. Many fear a French invasion - and, before long, England and France embark upon 20 years of intermittent warfare. Producer Daniel Snowman
(Revised repeat at 4.05pm)
with Robin Lustig.
Mid-day. Third part of Howard Fast's story.
Telling Tales. Last programme of the series drawing on the huge and powerful storehouse of remembered experience from people's school lives in the state system since 1945. Producer Dave Sheasby
