The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

With Canon Noel Vincent.

With Anna Ford and John Humphrys.
7.25,8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Russell Stannard.
Editor Roger Mosey. LETTERS: Today, PO Box 2299, London W1A 1PY. FAX: (0171) [number removed]. E-MAIL: today@bbc.co.uk

By SJ Perelman. Final part. The Roaring Traffic's Boom - the Perelman's Home at Last For details see Monday

Four casual encounters with life in Northern Ireland and beyond by Gerry Anderson.
3: Accordions and Chicken Wire.
'The clientele was made up mainly of hookers, drug dealers, conmen, crooks and petty thieves who were enjoying early afternoon weak beer." Producer Simon Elmes
Repeated Sunday at 6.15pm

Today's news from 50 years ago. For details see Monday

Introduced from Manchester by Sheila McClennon.
Serial: Anna Karenina (20) For details see Monday

Presented by Joanna Pinnock.
Producer Mary Colwell. Repeated Sunday at
8.00pm. WRITE TO: The Natural History Programme, BBC. Bristol BS8 2LR

Haydn Price presents reports on consumer and social affairs.
Editor Chns Burns. PHONE: to raise issues for investigation (0171) [number removed]

Derek Cooper goes bananas. Producer Lucinda Montefiore Repeated Monday at 7.20pm

With Nick Clarke. Editor Kevin Marsh

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

Repeated from Sunday 2.30pm

With Laurie Taylor.

Tim Marlow sees the new David
Bintley ballet set to Duke Ellington's music, and considers the importance of bridges in cities.
Producer Jerome Weatherald

AS Byatt's popular fairy-tale. Read by Sheila Mitchell. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon

With Chris Lowe and Peter Hunt.
Editor Margaret Budy. WRITE TO: PM
Lettehine, BBC Broadcasting House. London W1A 1AA. PHONE: (0171) [number removed]

David Stafford returns with the leisure and heritage magazine. This week, Sir George Martin visits the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton, Somerset. Producer David Prest

The competition's hotting up.
Written by Chris Thompson. Director Keri Davies. Editor Vanessa Whitburn
Repeated Monday at 1.40pm
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Presented by Meera Syal.
Producer Virginia Crompton. Repeated Sunday at 3.30pm
PHONE: (0171) [number removed](24 hours) FAX: (0171) [number removed]. E-MAIL: potw@bbc.co.uk

Dr Marjorie Mowlam MP, Shadow
Northern Ireland Secretary; historian and broadcaster Dr David Starkey ; Archy Kirkwood MP, Liberal Democrat Chief Whip; and Tony Baldry MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food tackle the issues raised in Farnborough, Hampshire. Jonathan Dimbleby is in the chair. Producer Nadine Grieve Repeated tomorrow 1.10

Laurie Taylor tries to pass himself off as an expert in six different fields. 4: Jeremiah. Laurie Taylor picks up his gavel and tries auctioneering. Producer Suzy Andrews

Boris Yeltsin's heart-bypass surgery and the cultures of secrecy that have surrounded the heath and governance of gravely ill leaders.

By Alistair Cooke.
Repeated Sunday at 9.15am

Repeated from Saturday 7.20pm

With Robin Lustig. Editor Anne Koch

Part five of F Scott Fitzgerald 's classic. For details see Monday

The topical comedy sketch show, starring Sally Grace , Toby Longworth and special guests. Producer Liz Anstee
Repeated tomorrow at 6.25pm

Patrick Hannan and guests take a sceptical look at the events of the past week.
Producer Hilary Green

Joanna Pinnock presents five programmes about the calls of nocturnal animals.
4: Under the Midnight Sun. Joanna Pinnock pitches her tent among the purple saxifrage by the sea in north-east Greenland to hear the sounds of the arctic night.
Producer Grant Sonnex

By John McGahern. Final part. Moran dies.
For details see Monday