The news and issues of the week in rural Britain.

With Bishop Peter Firth.

With Anna Ford and Sue MacGregor.
7.25, 8.25 Sports News
7.45 Thought for the Day With Clive Lawton.

By and with Armando lannucci. Part 2.
For details see yesterday

Your chance to talk to Ed Stourton and his guest on an issue of the moment.
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Events which made the news in 1947.

A special repeat broadcast of Reel Women. With film star Lisa Harrow , Producers Amanda Posey and Sally Hibbens , costume designer Sandy Powell , and others from both behind and in front of the camera. Jenni Murray is in the director's chair. With guest star the singer
Kim Cresswell. Short story: The Birds by Daphne du Maurier.
Producers Ariane Koek and Sarah Johnson

5: Mr Pickwick Goes to Prison!
For details and cast list see Christmas Eve Repeated at 9.30pm

Presented by Mark Whittaker.

Last of six programmes in which Peter Snow presents newspaper stories from a date selected at random by computer. The Evening Standard for 30 May 1881. John Kettley looks at meteorology in the 1880s and Tony Benn extols
Charles Bradlaugh - like Benn himself, Member of Parliament Bradlaugh
Was at first denied entry to the House °f Commons.
Producer Andrew Green

With Alex Brodie.

Repeated from yesterday 7.05pm

By Jim Broad bent.
In keeping his family estate intact, the 23rd Earl has had to resort to the occasional murder and a degree of coercion, but for a breed "that came over with William the Conqueror," this is hardly something new.
Producer Eoin O'Callaghan

lain Burnside visits four houses with strong literary connections. He looks at the way each house and its surroundings influenced a writer's life and plays song settings of texts by the writers featured. 3: Bateman's,
Rudyard Kipling 's house in Sussex. Producer Adam Gatehouse

Presented by Daire Brehan.

Paul Allen chairs two teams of presenters and critics as they answer questions on music, art, literature and performance posed by listeners and experts, and recall the highlights from the arts on Kaleidoscope this year. Producer Adrian Washboume

A classic Christmas tale of love and sacrifice by American storyteller 0 Henry. Read by Bob Sherman. Producer Pam Fraser Solomon Repeat

With Kevin Bouquet and Jon Sopel.

A six-part comedy series by Peter Kerry. 5: Marcia decides to inject a little culture into Paradise by starting a film club. But will French art triumph over Mad Max III ? Probably not. with Stephen Thirkeld and Niall Ashdown Repeat

Kenton is up to his old tricks. Repeated tomorrow 1.40pm

Helmut Kohl - visionary statesman or sinister threat to European liberties? David Sells explores the motivation behind one of the most formidable of modern political leaders. He follows Kohl's journey from terrified Hitler
Youth recruit to cosy embodiment of postwar recovery, and shows how the drama of German reunification prompted Kohl's personal drive towards greater European unity. Producer Chris Bowlby
Editor Gwyneth Williams Revised repeat

Peter Evans reports from the British
Psychological Society Annual Meeting. Repeated from Saturday 27 December 4.30pm

Roger Harrabin takes a personal journey through the Philippines, looking at the main environmental issues facing the country.

Peter White with news, views and information for the visually impaired. Producer Karen Turner
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Repeated from 11.30am

By Raymond Chandler. Part 7.
For details see Monday 22 December Repeat

The week's events in the media.
Repeated from Sunday 28 December 11.15am

In the final part of the An Artist in Sound series, Piers Plowright introduces a documentary which won the Prix Italia for Radio Documentaries in 1983. It is the story of a house and the family who lived in it - in spite of an estate agent's warning - for more than 50 years. Producer Piers Plowright Repeat

By MR James. 2: Lost Hearts
Who - or what - killed Mr Abney ? And why was it so keen to expose his heart? For details see yesterday