A musical start to your weekend listening - selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford
BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends and weather.
Producers ALLAN WRIGHT and UZ RIGBEY
A meditation for the beginning of the new day
7.10 Today's Papers
A weekly review of the agricultural scene BBC Birmingham
A note from Religious Affairs correspondent
Rosemary Hartill
Mike Gilliam asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend. j
8.10 Today's Papers
Presented by Tony Lewis
A weekend featuring the world's best on all fours!
In France, the richest horse race in Europe, Trust House Forte Prix.de L'Arc deà Triomphe and in Germany, the European Motor Racing Grand Prix, the penultimate race of the season. Will Niki Lauda clinch his third World Championship?
Strictly on two legs, world class women's golf returns to Great Britain for the first time since 1979. Hitachi Ladies' British Open title is contested by the strongest field ever to play outside the USA.
Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from SUSAN MARLING. PATRICK STODDART and ROBIN DEWHURST
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Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF Editor ROGER MACDONALD including 9.0 News
Alan Rusbridger presents a personal review of the weekly magazines and assesses their coverage of recent events. Producer SUSAN SNAlLUM
One man's view of his own
Party Conference. This week Gordon Brown , mf, presents a personal report.
Producer JUUAN COLES
with Margaret Howard Stereo
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people. Producer ZAREER MASANI
Presented by Louise Botting This week: The 1984-5 Unit Trust Managers' Portfolio. Six leading fund managers back their judgment on where the best investment prospects lie.
Profits have been much harder to come by recently as world stockmarkets have faltered against a background of continuing high interest rates. Which way will Wall Street go after the election? Can Japan re-establish its growth pattern? What price the UK, European and Australian markets? Will commodity funds make a comeback?
Hear what the experts choose and then try your hand at becoming the Unit Trust Investor of the Year Details from: Money Box
BBC Broadcasting House London, WIA iWW
(Repeated: Monday 10.0 am)
Quotations identified and provided by Basil Boothroyd June Knox-Mawer , Shelley Rohde and Jeremy Sindon Quotations read by RONALD FLETCHER
Devised and presented by Nigel Rees
Producer JOANIE BLAIKIE
(Repeated: Monday 6.30 pm) Stereo
The Rt Hon Roy Hattersley , mp John Selwyn Gummer , mp Brenda Dean , Andrew Neil from Preston, Lancashire
by Ken Whitmore
Given the right stimulants, Dawn Bembow discovers that she can project herself through time and space. The Ministry of Defence chiefs think that she should be encouraged to investigate Russia's military intentions, but the Prime Minister has other ideas....
BBC Manchester
(Stereo)
with Frank Muir and Alfred Marks
History ts too serious to be left to historians (LAIN MACLEOD) with the voices of MICHAEL FLANDERS, CARL REINER and MEL BROOKS , PETER COOK and BOB NEWHART
Written by FRANK muir and SIMON BRETT
Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS Stereo
with Alec McCowen
The first of three programmes compiled and written by BARRY CARMAN
Narrator JOHN ROWE
In 1901 at the age of 35 Joseph McPherson went out to Egypt to take up a teaching post. He fell instantly in love with the country and lived there for the rest of his long life. In this first instalment of his story, share with McPherson the pleasure of his first encounters with Egypt and its people.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK Stereo
Presented by Barry Norman A weekly look at the new technology and its impact, all served up in a way everyone will understand.
Producer TREVOR TAYLOR
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.0pm VHF/FM) Chtpline:
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by Anthony Smith
In April this year, Sir Alexander Gibson said farewell to the Scottish
National Orchestra after 25 years as its conductor. It was he who made the orchestra one of international repute. He also created Scottish Opera. In the first of two programmes, some of his friends and colleagues shed light on the personality who changed the musical face of Scotland. Presenter Neville Garden Producer JANE FOWLER
Series editor MURDOCH MCPHERSON (First broadcast on Radio Scotland)
Stereo
with PETER DONALDSON including Sports Round-up
Music by FASCINATING AIDA
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
with Richard Baker
(Stereo)
When the Wind Blows by RAYMOND BRIGGS based on his cartoon book of the same name Winner of the Broadcasting Press Guild for the most outstanding radio programme of 1983. with Brenda Bruce as Hilda and Peter Sallis as Jim
In the event of the nuclear holocaust, an innocent elderly couple take all the advised precautions.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN Stereo
Behind the high ivy-covered walls lays a magical world where the flowers whisper their secrets to the wind.
Narrated by Andrew Sachs Compiled by KATE TIFFIN
BBCBristol
(Details: Wednesday 11.0am)
Holy Spirit, truth divine
(BBC HB 155); Dark'ning night the land doth cover (Church Anthem Book); Galatians 5, w 16-25; Lighten the darkness (BBC HB 520) Stereo
Nick Page considers the lives and achievements of 12 people who have shaped our Christian heritage.
5: Wychliffe- Morning Star of the Reformation?
Researcher RACHEL VINEY Producer DAVID COOMES
Yard Sale by ARNOLD WESKER Sheila Steafel as Stephanie
It's a funny thing, a yard sale. You wonder who is getting rid of what. And why?
Directed by MARGARET windham Stereo
followed by an interlude
