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
Producer MARTIN SMALL BBC Birmingham
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent, Rosemary Hartill
Mike Gilliam asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.
8.10 Today's Papers
Tony Adamson keeps you in touch with the news and personalities in the sporting world.
Cricket: the latest news of England's cricketers in India. Plus, in Brisbane,
HENRY BLOFELD reports on Australia's Second Test match against the West Indies.
And in snooker, it is the half-way stage in the Coral UK Professional Snooker
Championship in Preston. Will the holder, Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins, make it another exciting battle to the finish? Producer EMILY MCMAHON
Presented by Roger Cook
Janet Cohen talks to V. S. Naipaul , travel writer and novelist, often called one of the greatest living novelists writing in English today.
Producer MARIFI CHICOTE
Michael Watts presents a personal review of the weekly magazines and assesses their coverage of recent events. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Peter Kellner , Political Editor of the New Statesman, reviews the past week.
Producer JIM GRAY
TV and radio extracts 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 (Details: Monday 10.0 am)
The news of the last seven days examined by the people who write it, with searching questions put in a curious way by Simon Hoggart to Alan Coren
Michael White , Frank Keating and Gillian Reynolds
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and JENNIE CAMPBELL Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
(Repeated: Monday 6.30 pm) Stereo
Baroness Phillipps Edwina Currie , mp John Pardoe and The Rev Donald Reeves
A Study in Sin by MICHAEL ROBSON
Gemma and Desmond Yates appear to have settled into an idyllic country life, but with the arrival of a stranger named Hobart, Gemma's world explodes into a nightmare of menace, intrigue and death.
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHUN BBC Bristol Stereo
The smash-hit TV series Lesson 43:
Sack the Burkiss Way starring Jo Kendall , Nigel Rees Chris Emmett and Fred Harris Written by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK
Producer DAVID HATCH Stereo
I found there was no literature about the kind of person I was ...
In his 50th year Jack Jones had his first novel published. It was yet another new beginning for a man who had been collier, soldier, navvy, salesman and cinema manager. Some thought him a genius. John Prior tells his story and Ray Smith reads extracts from his work.
With Dillwyn Owen ,
Mary Cogswell , Glyn Jones , Rachel Thomas , Clifford Evans ,
Elwyn Evans , Basil Boothby Written and produced by HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Presented by Barry Norman (Details: Tues 11.0 pm VHF/FM) Stereo
The first of four programmes Written and presented by Vincent Kane
A motley crew of Britons are stranded in the sweltering heat of Rome Airport. To pass the time, each traveller tells a story about himself and gradually a vivid picture emerges of life in contemporary Britain. The Au Pair's Tale Producer ELI WILLIAMS BBC Wales
Presented by Derek Jones Stereo
Stereo
With PETER DONALDSON including Sports Round-up
Conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations
Music by STEPHEN OUVER
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
Richard Baker presents a selection of words and music on record.
Producer JILL ANDERSON. Stereo
Customs of the Country by PHILIP LATHAM Hong Kong, 1858. The new
Attorney General, fresh out from England, is determined to stamp out corruption in the Colony, even if it means disgracing the father of his girlfriend. However, he reckons without the customs of the country....
Directed by ALEC REID BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Monday 3.0 pm) Stereo
A portrait of Jean Louis
Burckhardt, who was born 200 years ago today
(Details: Wednesday 11.0 am) 9 HEAR THIS! page 25
Jesus, these eyes have never seen (bp 44); 0 strength and stay (Anthems for Choirs 1); John 6, w 5-14; Jesu, thy boundless love to me (BP 41) Stereo
In Britain's Heritage Year,
Nick Page considers the lives and achievements of 12 men and women who have shaped our Christian heritage.
12: William Booth - the Saint with a Commercial Streak Researcher RACHEL VINEY Producer DAVID COOMES
featuring
Freshers - 'Does your beer taste funny? I'm not gonna drink mine until this foamy stuff on the top goes away.' starring - Christopher Barrie Nick Maloney , Nick Wilton Written by ROB GRANT and DOUG NAYLOR
Producer ALAN NIXON
(Repeated: Thurs 12.27 pm) Stereo
followed by an interlude
