Farming, food and countryside news. market trends and weather.
Producers MARTIN SMALL and LESLIE COTTINGTON
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent Gerald Priestland Book, Priestland's
Progress, 13.50, from booksellers
6.55 Weather; travel; programme news
7.10 Today's Papers
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
with Norman Tozer
7.55 Weather; travel: programme news
8.10 Today's Papers
Tony Lewis introduces the sports magazine programme on the weekend which sees the start of the 1982 World Cup Finals.
Featuring the latest news from Spain of the three home countries, without forgetting all the sporting activity at home. ENGLAND meets INDIA in the First Test at Lord's, and with Wimbledon only a week away, John McEnroe bids for the Stella Artois title at Queen's Club for the fourth consecutive time. Sport on 4 brings you the news and takes its usual ' sideways ' look at the sporting scene. Producer DAVE GORDON Editor DEREK MITCHELL
8.57 Weather; travel; continental travel
Introduced by Bernard Falk , with help from IAN LYON and SUSAN MARLING taking a critical look at the holiday, travel and leisure scene. Producer JENNY MARSHALL Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Frances Donnelly takes a special look at women's weekly magazines.
Producer Michael GILLIAM
Elinor Goodman views the past week through the eyes of backbench MPS and peers.
Producer JOSHUA ROZENBERG
NEM, p 38; And did those feet in ancient time (BBC HB 387); Psalm 20;
Romans 8, vv 28-39 (rsv)' Now thank we all our God (BBC HB 277)
The celebration in London of the official birthday of Her Majesty The Queen. This year The Queen's Colour of the Fifth Battalion of the Coldstream Guards is being trooped on Horse Guards Parade with music played by the Massed Bands of the Guards Division and the Massed Mounted Band of the Household Cavalry. This traditional scene is described by Neil Durden-Smith .
From London's ceremonial splendour we turn to a window in a Somerset village where playwright John Fletcher considers the rural scene.
Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Simon Hoggart to Alan Coren
Richard Ingrams Penny Junor and John Wells
Producer ALAN nixon
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
12.55 Weather; programme news
Jeffrey Archer
Sir Arthur South Ann Leslie and David Aaronovitch
1.55 Shipping forecast long wave only
Poetic Licence by PHILIP MARRIOTT it was always Julia and Alec ... until the phone rang.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
'What creature would make a nest in a burrow and fill it with seven golf balls?'
Just one of the questions to stymie our team of naturalists.
Presented by Derek Jones
BBC Bristol
(Repeat)
Book, Wildlife Questions and Answers, £2.50, from booksellers
A history in 26 parts 22: Unions
- in the everyday life of the sailor from the 1760s to the 1920s.
' You can organise shore people but seafarin' people are very suspicious of everything you try to organise ...'
Readers HENRY KNOWLES , CAROLE BOYD , MICHAEL SHANNON , JOHN HOLLIS ,
STEVE HODSON , ANTHONY HALL and LEONARD MACUIRE
Consultant and presenter Norman MeCord , Professor of Social
History, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Composed and directed by MICHAEL MASON
A series in eight parts 5: Duck Soup on the Black Sea
Continuing his Russian adventures, Joseph Hone takes a Soviet cruise liner across the Black Sea - a trip where the presiding Marxist spirit turns out to be not that of Karl, but Groucho ... Producer joy HATWOOD
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners and their families, with countrywide news and views on all matters of concern to them.
Presenter John Mills
Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address: BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
Tel: [number removed]
' I always wanted to be an actress, but I do not know why, except that I was not particularly satisfied with only being what the world said it saw, I felt there were about 12 people inside of me and they could have a chance to get out, if I was an actress.'
Sue MacGregor talks to
Joan Plowright about her life and work.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
An irreverently critical look at the week's news.
5.50 Shipping forecast lung wave only
5.55 Weather: travel: programme news
including Sports Round-up and continental travel
Amiably competitive conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations.
Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a blend of musical entertainment on record, mixing the well-loved with the less familiar and occasionally including the spoken word.
Producer RONALD COOK
The Journal of Simon Owen by CHARLES PALLISER
In a small West Riding town during the 19th century, an inquest into the death of Michael Owen , a prominent millowner, has begun. His life and ambitions are on trial, along with those of his son
Simon Owen. But as the events prior to Owen's death are recalled, a new light starts to fall on the case.
Navvies and millowners played by STUART ORGAN STEVE HODSON and SPENCER BANKS
Directed by CLARE TAYLOR
' Ach lean sinn am fasan 'bha againn 'bho thus '
(But we followed our old customs nevertheless)
(JOHN MACLEAN , Balephull and Brandon)
In the 19th century hundreds of families left the Hebridean island of Tiree for new homes in Canada. Traditions among their descendants, music and poetry describe the process of adaptation and the survival of the old culture and values in the emigrant communities. Compiled by Margaret A. Mackay
Readers FLORA MACPHAIL and DONALD MEEK
Singers DONALD SINCLAIR , HECTOR KENNEDY and AUSTAIR MACNEILL
Fiddles DEREK HOY and HUGH LAMONT
Producer BILLY KAY (First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
(Postponed from 25 April)
Evening prayers led by Fr Willie McDade BBC Scotland
followed by an interlude
Weather report; forecast followed by an interlude
