with Hilary Osborn
Today: Weekend Food Prices; Consumer Affairs - Elizabeth Berg asks: 'How much do we pay for packaging?'
Studio Discussion: the advantages and disadvantages of having a baby later in life as Monday
BRIAN SHARPE at the organ (from BBC Radio Medway)
by CHARLES DICKENS
The Story of the Goblins who stole a Sexton
Read by TOM VERNON
The Immortals
A romantic opera in three acts by Richard Wagner
Translated by Alison Murray and Terence Green
(first broadcast performance in this country of Wagner's first complete opera, written when he was 20)
The Immortals test the love of King Arindal for Ada, daughter of a mortal father and a faery mother
BEAUFORT OPERA CHORUS chorus master BRIAN FIELDHOUSE FULHAM MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA leader ROSALIND THOMPSON conducted by JOSEPH VANDERNOOT
(A recording of the London premiere production by Hammersmith Municipal Opera last May)