Producers MARTIN SMALL and ALLAN WRIGHT
with Rosemary Hartill
7.10 Today's Papers
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Mike Gilliam asks Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.
8.10 Today's Papers
Presented by Tony Lewis In Paris, the French
Tennis Championship has reached its climax at the Stade Roland Garros. Johannesburg is the scene for the second and final
Rugby Union Test between South Africa and England. In Rio de Janeiro,
England's footballers play the Brazilians, and back home the Oaks is being run at Epsom.
Producer JOANNE WATSON
Susan Marling with ROBIN DEWHURST , KATHY ARNOLD and PATRICK STODDART. Producer
JENNY MALUNSON DUFF
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
with Hugo Young
Producer MIKE gilliam
with Adam Raphael , of The Observer.
Producer JIM GRAY
with Margaret Howard
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in. Producer ZAREER MARANI
A Question of Money At the invitation of the Morning Telegraph, the Money Box team takes to the road to answer questions put by listeners in Sheffield. The panel
Louise Botting , Vincent Duggleby ,
Christopher Gilchrist , Philip Hardman (Part 2: Mon 10.0 am)
The Grand Final
Mike Harding and Willie Rushton take on Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer but lose. Order supplied by Humphrey Lyttelton. Notes supplied by COLIN SELL
Booze supplied by PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER
(Repeated: Mon 6.30 pm)
Councillor Lady Porter Austin Mitchell, MP Dick Taverne , qc
Richard Needham , MP from Bakewell
A Proper Conversation by DEE PHILLIPS
Two elderly women from very different backgrounds meet in a hospital ward, and strike up a friendship of great value to both of them.
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON (Repeated: Tues 11.0 am)
Geoff Watts reports
Presenter Derek Jones
Plenty, perhaps, for Emma Johnson , this year's Young Musician of the Year.
Obviously talented, she was well supported by her state school. But with the present cut-backs, do enough schools provide that level of support for music and does it matter if they do not? Shelley
Bovey investigates and draws some surprising conclusions.
Producer ALEC REID BBC Bristol
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BBC correspondents report
For disabled listeners Presenter John Mills Editor MARLENE PEASE
Correspondence address:
BBC, Broadcasting House, London WlA 4WW Tel: [number removed]
(Mon-Fri 10.0 am-5.0 pm)
Four programmes for the would-be actor written and presented by Derek Parker
2: Learning the Part
The closure of a large number of repertory theatres in Britain has deprived actors of a traditional source of employment and further training. What other alternatives exist?
With contributions from, among others,
PETER BARKWORTH , RICHARD BRIERS.
JUDI DENCH. PAUL EDDINGTON ,
TREVOR EVE , DEREK JACOBI ,
PETER SALLIS , ATHENE SEYLER and KENNETH WILLIAMS
Producer DENNIS SIMMONS (Revised repeat)
A critical look back at the week's news
with EUGENE FRASER including
Sports Round-up
Ronald Eyre considers the theatrical element in Verdi's Requiem.
Producer PATRICK LAMBERT records
Occasionally over-animated conversation inspired by episodes of the week.
Music by FASCINATING AIDA Producer MICHAEL EMBER
with Richard Baker
Producer ANDREW MUSSETT
by SIMON MASTERS
A heart attack faces Det Insp Jack Branigan with an early retirement party, sympathetic smiles from colleagues and the patronising chit-chat of keen young men like Ray Duerdon, obviously angling for his old job.
But that evening, events unfold which are to pit experience against ambition.
Directed by VANESSA WHITBURN BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Mon 3.0 pm)
A new series in which current and controversial issues are put on trial before Chairman Geoffrey Robertson and an audience of jurors. Today's motion:
The abolition of the GLC and the Metropolitan Counties is a threat to local democracy.
Proposer Ken Livingstone Opposer Angela Rumbold, mp
The two advocates each call supporting witnesses to be questioned and cross-questioned; the jury votes at the beginning and end of the trial.
Producer MAGGIE REDFERN (Repeated: Wed 11.0 am)
Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear (BBC HB 424); Acts 2, vv 1-21;
Come, my way, my truth (BP 13)
Phil Smith takes to the summer playgrounds to inspect his fellow pleasure seekers.
2: A Race Apart
BBC Manchester
Live comedy
Fed up with the usual old Saturday night routine? Why not do something really different for a change? Get sloshed with the radio on.... with Nick Wilton , Helen Lederer , Steve Brown and Clive Mantle
Written by HUNTER DOCHERTY . JAMES HENDRIE .
TREVOR MCCALLUM , MURRY . RIX .
WILTON. ROGER PLANER.
PAUL DAVIES , VICKY PILE and others
Music by STEVE BROWN Producer JAMIE RIX