The daily bulletin of rural current affairs.
With the Rev Roy Jenkins.
With Alex Brodie and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Elaine Storkey.
8.40 Yesterday in Parliament
Your chance to talk to Nick Ross and his guest on an issue of the moment.
Lines Open from 8.00am
The news of 50 years ago today. Britain and France sign a treaty of alliance which was to last until 1997.
Introduced by Jenni Murray. Serial: The Key (2).
For details see yesterday
With Lesley Riddoch.
The third of six programmes.
Mrs Danvers sneaks into the plot of Noel Coward 's Private Lives. The Pilgrim's Progress is re-worked to include a brush with Michael Palin and assorted other media moguls. This literary havoc comes from Dillie Keane , Miles Kington , Roger McGough and Mark Thomas. Chaired by Ian McMillan. Producer Marc Jobst
With Nick Clarke.
Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm
John Baxter presents a portrait of the controversial new French National Library in Paris - a project of the late President Mitterand - as it moves to its controversial new home on the banks of the Seine.
Pianist David Owen Norris talks to six leading soloists and accompanies them in their favourite pieces of music.
4: Hurdy-gurdy player Nigel Eaton. Producer Fiona Couper
With Daire Brehan.
Maxwell's House. Architect Maxwell
Hutchinson joins Daire Brehan to take your calls for the weekly discussion of building and design dilemmas. Phone in on (0171) [number removed]
Paul Vaughan reviews the latest novel from Kate Atkinson , of Behind the Scenes at a Museum fame. Human
Croquet sees the world through the eyes of an eccentric suburban family. Also, a collection of British fashion on show at the Victoria and Albert museum.
Producer Edwina Wolstencroft
Revised repeat at 9.30pm
By Trevor Colman.
Harold's gift of being able to see below the surface of things leads him to a personal discovery that would have been better left alone.
Read by David Bannerman. Producer Rosemary Watts
With Charlie Lee-Potter and Nigel Wrench.
By Ivan Shakespeare.
A four-part comedy series parodying the life and times of the Bloomsbury Group. 3: The Rights of Women
With Matthew Bell, Joanna Brookes , Chris Emmett , Sally Grace ,
Nick Hardy , Toby Longworth , Moya O'Shea and Sarah Parkinson.
Producer Liz Anstee Repeat
A difference of opinion. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm
Major issues, changing attitudes, important events at home and abroad. Reporter Jenny Cuffe. Last in the series.
Producer Sarah Lewthwaite Repeated Saturday 5.00pm
Is the Earth really at risk from meteorites? Alun Lewis reports. Repeated from Saturday 4.30pm
The Pantomime of Race. In the second of five lectures, Professor Patricia J Williams explores what is distorted and what is rendered invisible by the lens of colour blindness.
Producer Constance St Louis
* See Polly Toynbee : page 12
Peter White with news, views and information for visually impaired people.
Producer Eleanor Garland PHONE: [number removed]
FACTSHEET: send large sae to [address removed]
Revised repeat of 4.05pm
With Isabel Hilton.
William Hurt reads part seven of Paul Theroux 's story.
For details see yesterday
The week's events in the media. Repeated from Sunday 11.15am
Russell Davies with the programme about words and the way we speak. 3: Big Worms, Little Worms and Just Worms The lingua franca of linguine, the alfabeto of spaghetti, and a new theory on the ageing of the voice. Producer Jane Ray Repeat
For details see yesterday
(Repeat)
