The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
A meditation for the new day with Barbara Lacey from Southwell Diocese.
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 Anthobgy of Spiritual Verse. A selection of poetry on the theme of humanity. Producer Katriona Wade
introduced byJenni Murray.
Serial: Shadwell. Edward Petherbridge reads the last of Sylvia Townsend Warner's Five Stories.
with John Howard.
by Christopher Fitz-Simon .
Fourth of six episodes set in Ballylenon, Co Donegal, in 1953. The gloves are off in the battle to bring the opera festival to Killycromper Hall.
Music by Stephanie Hughes Director Eoin O'Callaghan
with Nick Clarke.
Final part of Jonathan Smith 's story of a successful headmaster running an independent school in London.
Do You Sleep Wel ? Patrick sets off on a secret assignation with his attractive publisher. Meanwhile, his marriage is becoming more public, and he is playing with fire.
Director Shaun MacLoughlin
Sex, violence, poverty and crime - Michael Rosen uncovers the unsavoury history of nursery rhymes. Producer Jill Burridge
with Daire Brehan.
Mark Steyn watches the new Pedro Almodovar film, a remake of Sam Peckinpah 's The Getaway, and a western starring Drew Barrymore, Madeleine Stowe and Andie MacDowell as Bad Girls. Producer Robyn Read (Revised repeat at 9.30pm)
by Patrick Cunningham.
What would you do if you became rich overnight? An unsuspecting grandson is about to find out.
Read by Nicholas Boulton. Producer Jocelyn Boxall
with Chris Lowe and Linda Lewis.
FirstRound- North of England. Philip Gray (financial consultant); Dan Verity (retired school teacher); Dr Philip Jones (solicitor); Colin Denson (civil servant).
Say it with flowers.
Last of the series in which John Waite and his team follow up listeners' complaints. Editor Graham Ellis
How can cycling and re-cycling contribute to health? Geoff Watts finds out.
Jez Nelson with the latest from the world of science and technology.
Producer Sue Broom
3: The 1690s: Way of the World. As Wren's new cathedral rises over the City, London emerges as the greatest, wealthiest and most vibrant city in the world. Here are the new merchants and financiers jostling with the soldiers, priests, pimps, politicians and playwrights of London's taverns and coffee houses. A decade of war (Ireland, France) is also the era of Purcell, Dryden and Congreve - and of some of the most scurrilous and evocative popular songs to have survived the ravages of history.
Producer Daniel Snowman
(Revised repeat of 4.05pm)
with Sheena McDonald.
by George Gissing.
A small-town celebrity faces financial ruin. Read by Gareth Armstrong.
In the first of a six-part series, Edward Blishen , himself a diarist for over 60 years, discovers how private lives are shaken by world events using extracts from diaries of two world wars. These include a soldier on leave, desperate to taste the pleasures of life before returning to his battalion on the Somme; a young nurse sneaking out for a date with a handsome French patient; the writings of a pacifist; and the secret diary of a prisoner-of-war in the Far East, his own "personal act of defiance".
