A musical start to your weekend listening - selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo
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
8.10 Today's Papers
Tony Adamson presents the final programme of 1984. Cricket: A report from Delhi to find out how England are getting on in their Second Test match against India. Plus some early Christmas cheer to make you smile. Producer EMILY MCMAHON
Presented by Roger Cook
The last of six programmes Best-selling author
Jack Higgins talks with Pamela Donald about his late development as a writer and the events behind one of the decade's most successful novels, The Eagle Has Landed. Producer PHILLIP HAY
David Willis presents a personal review of the weekly magazines.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Peter Riddell , Political Editor of the Financial Times, reviews the past week. Producer JIM GRAY
with Margaret Howard
Producer ZAREER MASANI
Presented by Louise Botting
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
Geoffrey Dickinson and Jim Naughtie
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and JENNIE CAMPBELL Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
Emma Nicolson Lesley Abdela
Geoffrey Robinson , mp and Graham Dowson
The Journal of Vasilije Bogdanovic by ALAN PLATER
Newly recruited Yugoslavian soccer international Vasilije Bogdanovic has some problems coming to terms with his new English Second
Division League club. He can't speak the language; he can't cope with the amount of hard liquor drunk by the average English professional; nor, it appears, can he play football.
Directed by DICKON REED
A BBC World Service drama production
(Voted the Society of Authors' best drama script in the 1983 Sony Radio Awards) Stereo
The last in the smash-hit TV series
Lesson 46: Settle Out of Court The Burkiss Way starring Jo Kendall
Nigel Rees , Chris Emmett and Fred Harris
Written by ANDREW MARSHALL and DAVID RENWICK
Producer DAVID HATCH Stereo
The Story of the British Antarctic Survey
Antarctica is a cold desert of five-and-a-quarter million square miles, masked by an immense ice sheet. This cruel, forbidding continent was the last to be discovered. No man set foot on it until 1820 and virtually all we know about this inhospitable region has been discovered in the last 80 years. In the second of two programmes, Sir Vivian Fuchs tells the story of the men who have faced some of the worst conditions nature can provide in their quest to discover the secrets of Antarctica. Producer JOHN KNIGHT BBC Bristol
The last of the series
Presented by Barry Norman Stereo
The last of four programmes written and presented by Vincent Kane
The Nurse's Tale BBC Wales
Presenter Derek Jones
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news.
with CLIVE ROSLIN including Sports Round-up
Conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations
Music by PETER SKELLERN Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Richard Baker presents a selection of words and music on record, reviving old favourites, introducing the less-familiar and including some recent releases.
Producer JILL ANDERSON. Stereo
Ride a Red Pony by ANGELA SEWELL
'Death comes for his victims mounted on a white horse, but madness rides a red pony....'
This is the story of Juana la Loca (Joan the Mad) the Infanta of Spain at the turn of the 15th century.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
Dick Taveme, qc, chairs the series in which issues of controversial concern are put on trial before an audience of 150 jurors. The motion:
The Church of England should be disestablished
Proposed by Eric Heffer , mp Opposed by John Selwyn Gummer , mp The advocates are each allowed two supporting witnesses who are examined and cross-examined. The jury will vote at the beginning and end of the trial so that any swing of opinion may be measured and the verdict recorded.
Researcher RUTH BEN-OR Producer PETER ESTALL.
Stereo
Advent Calendar: David and Goliath
Praise to the Holiest in the height (BBC HB 88); Christe,
Redemptor omnium (Carols for Choirs 3); 1 Samuel 17, w 38-51; From glory to glory advancing (BBC HB 244) Stereo
Recollections of the great days of the big ships using the Port of Southampton.
3: The Great Days of the 20s and 30s
Presented by Robin Worman (First broadcast on BBC Radio Solent)
(Details: Thursday 12.27pm) Stereo
followed by an interlude
