The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
With the Rev Dr Gordon Gray.
With John Humphrys and James Naughtie.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
With Libby Purves and guests. Producer Ronni Davis
The news of exactly 50 years ago.
Judge Ralph Windham , kidnapped on Monday, is released unharmed. For details see Monday
Lebanese novelist Hanan Al-Shaykh tells Jenni Murray about her first play. Serial: Gaudy Night (5). For details see Monday
Repeated from Sunday 2.00pm
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With Lesley Riddoch.
Six further episodes of Lucy Flannery 's award-winning sitcom about the Reynolds and their lodgers.
Producer Liz Anstee
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
Final part of Tony Mulholland 's serial about a woman's political career.
Declaration. Pat gets a rare thing in politics: a second chance. But this time it's make or break. with Norman Bird , Richard Mitchley , David Holt , Terry Pearson , Sally Hedges , Kathryn Hunt , Susan Jeffrey , Robin Bowerman and Pat Quayle. Director Nigel Bryant Repeat
The fourth of six programmes in which journalist Fionnuala O'Connor reflects on the experience of women in Northern Ireland in the past 25 years. Producer Ian Kirk-Smith
With Daire Brehan.
Paul Gambaccini sees three major film releases - Ken Loach 's Carla's
Song, John Cleese 's Fierce Creatures and Al Pacino 's Looking for Richard. Plus a review of Palestrina at the Royal Opera House. Producer Matthew Dodd
Revised repeat 9.30pm
By Tamar Yellin. Read by Joanna Monro. Memories of teenage angst and piano lessons come flooding back with the discovery of a long-lost piece of sheet music. Producer Pauline Stone
With Chris Lowe and Jon Sopel.
Repeated from Monday
Ruth wants to expand. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
John Waite investigates. Producer Mervyn Fletcher
Repeated tomorrow 9.05am
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The award-winning series examining the impact of the last one hundred years on our lives and ideas, presented by Michael Ignatieff.
12: Suffering. One hundred years ago, disease and early death were commonplace. Over the years, science has changed all that, but has it increased our suffering? Producer Philip Sellars
The series that airs the best features made by media students. This week, Edwina Jarvis introduces Because of Saturday, about the tactics and mind set of football hooligans; and Marie Shotbolt introduces Vowed Lives, in which nuns talk about everyday life. Producer Bella Bannerman
Conversations with scientists.
Barbara Myers talks to Jane Goodall about her work studying chimpanzees in Tanzania, including her remarkable discovery that chimps cannibalise their young.
Producer Sandy Raffan
Repeated Sunday 9.30pm
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
With Isabel Hilton.
By Nancy Mitford. Part 3. For details see Monday
11.00 New series Six-part comedy series about a small local council in Buckinghamshire, written by and starring Julian Dutton , with Liz Fraser , David Battley , Toby Longworth , Simon Godley and Enrico Valdez , the Chilean charmer. Producer Dirk Maggs
Six-part series celebrating the culinary delights of the ancient Roman cook Apicius, as spoken by Keith Floyd.
Apicius prepares to entertain a vestal virgin with a love feast. Producer Jane Berthoud
Part 8.
For details see Monday
