Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
with Rosemary Hartill
7.10 Today's Papers
BBC Birmingham
Mike Gilliam asks Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.
8.10 Today's Papers
with Tony Lewis
FA Cup semi-finals: favourites Watford play Plymouth, only the sixth Third-division team ever to reach this stage. Everton, with one
Wembley appearance already this season, meet Southampton.
RENTON LAIDLAW reports from Augusta, Georgia, on play at the halfway stage of the US Masters golf tournament.
Producer DAVE GORDON
Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from SUSAN MARLING. ROBIN DEWHURST and PATRICK STODDART. Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Michael Watts presents a personal review of the weekly magazines.
Producer MIKE GILLIAM
Robert Carvel of the London Standard views the past week.
with Margaret Howard
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in.
Presenter Louise Botting (Repeated: Mon 10.0 am)
The antidote to panel games
Tim Brooke-Taylor Willie Rushton Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden challenge I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue listeners to spot the deliberate mistake.
Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton
At the piano Colin Sell
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
Clive Jenkins
Michael Winner Jacqui Lait Bel Mooney from Petersfield, Hants
by RHYS ADRIAN
Sir John Gielgud celebrates his 80th birthday today. With fellow actor
Raymond Huntley (who will be 80 on 23 April), he adds ten years to his age and plays one of two 90-year-old gentlemen who sit in what seems like a Gentleman's Club discussing time present and time past. The waiter is played by John Rye.
A witty, exhilarating and hopeful play. It takes the cliches about old age and turns them inside out ... The magnificent voices of Gielgud and Huntley reveal that in being bored there is a passionate excitement.
(HAROLD HOBSON )
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (First broadcast on R3)
Geoff Watts reports
Your wildlife questions answered
with Hugh Sykes
This week Groundswell reports on the conflict in the British countryside - can environmentally sound farming techniques pay their way? There is a profile of the pressure group Greenpeace and Richard North investigates the environmental cost of a cup of coffee and your daily newspaper.
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE (Repeated: Tuesday 11.0 pm VHF)
HELPLINES: page 79
An eight-part series 7: Living with It
Few may be marching but none are happy about being unemployed. This week, we go around the country for examples of how unemployment is affecting the young, the hard core, the recently redundant and some for whom it has become a way of life.
Reporter Peter Smith Producer ADAM RAPHAEL
A magazine of special interest to disabled listeners.
Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence, enquiries: BBC, Broadcasting House, London [Postcode removed] Tel: [number removed]
(Mon-Fri 10.0 am-5.0 pm)
Five poets of the past seen through the eyes of poets of the present.
4: A Poet's Blessing
Seamus Heaney looks at the Irish poet
Patrick Kavanagh and explores a special relationship.
Reader DENYS HAWTHORNE Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
A critical look back at the week's news.
with PETER DONALDSON including
Sports Round-up
Occasionally over-animated conversation inspired by episodes of the week.
Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS Producer MICHAEL EMBER
with Richard Baker Producer RAY ABBOTT
A comedy by Mervyn Jones
with Vivian Pickles, Freddie Jones, John Hollis and Jon Strickland
All is serene at the manor. Then the tribe arrives and Lady Patricia has the Disneys camping in her meadow. The police will do nothing, neither will the MP. Well, if you can't beat them.... the takeover begins.
(Repeated: Mon 3.0 pm)
- some are written for children by adults for their edification, some spontaneously pass through the community of childhood for scores of years.
Kevin Crossley-Holland examines the world of children's songs with examples chosen from all over the world.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
What is daily life like in Africa's newest state? Four years after independence Zimbabwe is a country recovering from a vicious war, suffering a long drought and adapting to rapid economic and social change. Yet it is a land not without optimism, where, despite rumour and complaint, there's an enthusiastic commitment to working for a better future.
Bernard Jackson reports on a recent visit.
Producer ANNE HOWELLS (Repeated: Wed 11.0 am)
A Triumphal Entry Ride on, ride on in majesty (BBC HB 89);
Hosanna to the Son of David (Gibbons); Mark 11, vv 1-11; All glory, laud and honour (BBC HB 78)
Novelist Joseph Hone tells the nine-part story of his African safari.
3: Zaire: Wild Extremes
A series of six overheard conversation pieces by ALUN OWEN
3: Johnny and the Duchess
The lady sitting at the table next to
Mr Emmanuel comes from Dublin and she is certainly larger than life. Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN (Marie Kean is an Abbey Theatre player)
