The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.

With the Rev Bob Brown.

With Alex Brodie and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day
With Frances Gumley-Mason .
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament

Your chance to talk to Nick Ross and his guest on an important issue of the moment.
Producer Anne Peacock
LINES OPEN from 8.00am

The news of 50 years ago today. The BBC announced a close-down to help save fuel, and ice floes in the North
Sea threatened shipping. For details see yesterday

Introduced by Jenni Murray.
Serial: Every Man for Himself (2) For details see yesterday

Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care - from the GP's surgery to the research laboratory. Producer Rami Tzabar
Repeated Sunday 10.15pm

With Lesley Riddoch.

The first of six programmes chaired by Barnsley poet Ian McMillan. Piglet bumps into the Greek Chorus,
Inspector Clouseau takes Blanche Dubois to a dance, and Hunter S Thompson writes a public school prospectus. Outrageous parody, irreverent wit and original writing from Mark Thomas , Dillie Keane , Miles Kington and Roger McGough. Producer Marc Jobst

With Nick Clarke.

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

The last of four programmes reconsidering stories that have had a profound influence on popular culture. The Turn of the Screw. Peggy Reynolds talks to modern writers about their interpretations of Henry James 's psychological thriller. Producer Sally Marmion Repeat

Pianist David Owen Norris talks to six leading soloists and accompanies them in their favourite pieces of music. 2: Timpanist Ben Hoffnung. Producer Fiona Couper

Daire Brehan with guests, topical debate, and reflections on what qualities and life experiences best express the notion of innocence.
Phone (0171) [number removed]with your conundrums

Minette Walters talks with Paul Vaughan about thriller writing and about her new novel, The Echo. And, in the light of a new fictional autobiography of Charlotte Mew, a search for the real woman whom
Virginia Woolf called "the greatest living poetess".
Producer Beaty Rubens
Revised repeat at 9.30pm

By Helen Dunmore. A delicious tale set in Finland. Much to her delight, Ulli sees that her Italian friend Lucca has the tell-tale, positively plump signs of being fat one day.
Read by Saskia Reeves. Producer Pauline Harris

With Charlie Lee-Potter and Chris Lowe.

By Ivan Shakespeare. A four-part comedy series based on the life and times of the Bloomsbury Group. 1: The Great War
With Jonathan Aris , Matthew Bell ,
Joanna Brookes , Chris Emmett , Sally Grace , Nick Hardy , Toby Longworth and Sarah Parkinson.
Producer Liz Anstee Repeat

Grange Farm on show. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm

Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. Reporter Mark Whitaker. Producer Gregor Stewart
Repeated Saturday 5.00pm

Peter Evans presents a weekly review of discoveries in science. Producer Olive Clancy
Repeated from Saturday 4.30pm E-MAIL: scirad@bbc.co.uk

The Reith Interview
This year's lecturer is Patricia J Williams , professor of law at
Columbia University, New York, and acclaimed author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights. She talks to Sue
MacGregor about the influences and inspirations for her thinking. Producer Constance St Louis

Peter White with news, views and information for visually impaired people.
Producer Eleanor Garland
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FACTSHEET: send large sae to [address removed]

Revised repeat of 4.05pm

With Isabel Hilton.

By Edna O'Brien.
7: The Hunt Begins
For details see yesterday

The week's events in the media.
Repeated from Sunday 11.15am

By Pat Barker. (7)
For details see yesterday