The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
With Bishop Peter Firth.
With Anna Ford and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Paul Johns.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Topical discussion. Producer Anne Peacock
LINES OPEN from 8.00am
The news of 50 years ago today. French Prime Minister Leon Blum arrives for trade talks, and troops have again been working at Smithfield Market.
For details see yesterday
She was the inspiration behind the Nipper books and still delights children today. As her autobiography is published, author, educationalist and thinker Leila Berg tells
Jenni Murray about her radical life. Serial: The Transit of Venus (9) For details see yesterday
Should the victims of brain injury be added to the list of drivers the government wants to keep off the road? Geoff Watts reports. Producer Paula McGrath
Repeated Sunday 10.15pm
With Lesley Riddoch.
Vincent Hanna gives the clues to
Francis Wheen , David Quantick and Gill Pyrah in the only crossword puzzle on the radio.
Producers Carol Smith and Alison Harbert
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
By Jude Alderson. A Brixton bad boy meets the cashmere comforts of the Royal Academy of Music in this urban fairy tale.
Dale KEITH DRINKEL Producer Hilary Norrish
A profile of Andre Previn. In the first of four programmes, he talks to June Knox-Mawer about the extraordinary range of his musical intertest. Producer Derek Drescher Repeat
With Daire Brehan. Ian MacMillan finds a 19th-century diary written by a man even more mundane than
Mr Pooter.
Paul Vaughan discusses the success of the television drama series about dustmen Common as Muck, and reads Leila Berg 's book on growing up in Manchester before the war. Producer Jackie Christie
Revised repeat 9.30pm
By Alison Leonard. When a conventional English teacher meets a wild Native American teller of tales, she finds she must restructure both her career and her life.
Read by Gerda Stevenson. Producer Pam Wardell
Six of W Somerset Maugham's short stories, dramatised by Neville Teller and narrated by Dirk Bogarde. 2: The Vessel of Wrath
An unlikely liaison is formed in the Dutch East Indies when a lady missionary inadvertently falls for a drunken dropout. with David Timson , Roger May and Andrew Branch. Director Janet Whitaker Repeat
William is caught in the act. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
Denys Blakeway looks back at four pivotal events in the last 40 years and considers their consequences. 3: The Brixton Riots. More than 150 people were injured in the riots which swept through the streets of Brixton in 1981. They marked a wholesale breakdown in relations between the black community and the authorities, and the effects were felt far and wide.
Today, one observer comments "It took a riot to wake up Britain to the fact that there was a huge problem that was not being addressed." Producer Mark Savage
Repeated Saturday 5.00pm
Peter Evans presents a weekly review of discoveries and developments. Repeated from Saturday 4.30pm
Trevor Phillips with news, debate and reflections from black and Asian people in the UK and around the world.
Producer Fran Acheson
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Peter White presents news, views and information for visually impaired people.
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Revised repeat of 4.05pm
With Isabel Hilton.
Nigel Williams 's black comedy. Part 2. For details see yesterday
The week's events in the media.
Repeated from Sunday 11.15am
By Helen Dunmore. Part 5. For details see yesterday
