The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

A meditation for the new day with Barbara Laceyfrom Southwell Diocese.

with James Naughtie and Sue MacGregor. Details as yesterday plus:
7.45 Thought for the Day with Paul Johns.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Nick Ross :
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Talk to Nick Ross and his guest on an issue of the moment.
Producer Denis Nightingale LINES OPEN from 8.00am

An Anthology of Spiritual Verse. A selection of poetry about nuns. Producer Katriona Wade

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
In the second of her special reports from the former Yugoslavia, Caroline Swinburne investigates the effect of war trauma on children in Bosnia.
Serial: Idenborough, the fourth of Five Stories by Sylvia Townsend Warner , read by Margaret Tyzack.

How can cycling and re-cycling contribute to health? Geoff Watts gets on his bike to find out.
Producer Deborah Cohen

With John Howard.

The customer-focused, tax-efficient, vertically-integrated business quiz for the 90s. The panel of Peter Day, Sir John Harvey-Jones, Alastair Ross Goobey and Nigel Whittaker is chaired by Nigel Cassidy.

with Nick Clarke.

Stephen Dinsdale 's comic monologue enjoyed a triumph at the Edinburgh Festival and then transferred to the West
End. Now the adventures of Gus Gascoigne , fanatical train spotter, are brought to radio with James Holmes starring as Gus. Director Anne Pivcevic

Film director Michael Winner reveals to
Jeremy Nicholas those moments in music which send a shiver down his spine.
Producer Ray Abbott

Daire Brehan invites you to join herforan hour of daily live action. None: [number removed].

Gill Pyrah chairs a discussion about sex in fiction and the limits of taste as Helen
"Dirty Weekend" Zahavi's new novel is published.
Producer Lore Windemuth (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)

by Dave Sheasby.
"The wind smacked at his face and the traffic roared in his ears but he had to finish now. His great-uncle Frank hadn't given in. And it was for him he was doing this."
Read by Finetime Fontayne. Producer Gillian Hush

with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.

Concluding the adaptation of Peter Lovesey 's comedy-thriller, with Ronald Pickup as Walter, Fiona Fullerton as Lydia and Oona Beeson as Alma.
Walter has been shot. Alma no longer loves him. Did they murder his wife for nothing?
Dramatised by Geoffrey M Matthews Director Matthew Walters

Nelson's books are opened.

Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. Reporter Jenny Cuffe. Producer Lynne Jones

To mark National Music Day, Peter Evans looks at the latest in concert-hall and studio technology, instrument design and our understanding of the human voice.

2: Pay with a credit card, get some money from a cash machine, make a call on a mobile phone: every time you do one of these things, you're logged on a computer. A large number of our actions now leave behind an "electronic fingerprint". But how easy is it to get at this information, and what uses can it be put to? Alun Lewis investigates. Producer Peter Croasdale

Presented by Tony Barringer Producer Dave Harvey
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(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)

with David Aronovitch.

The second part of George Gissing 's story, read by Anna Massey.

with Simon Hoggart.
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