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, including a report from the Oxford Farming Conference.
Produced by the Farming Unit 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
Presented by Tony Lewis In Madras, England's cricketers are preparing for their fourth Test Match against India, starting tomorrow.
Tennis: Many of the world's leading players are in action in the Volvo Masters at
Madison Square Garden, New York. TONY ADAMSON is there.
Plus a look at some of the issues, personalities and more off-beat moments in the world of sport.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON
Introduced by Bernard Falk with help from susAN MARLING PATRICK STODDART and ROBIN DEWHURST
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Ian Hislop presents a personal review of the weekly magazines and assesses their coverage of recent events. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Winner Takes All? .
Constitutionally, the Official Opposition plays an essential part in good government. But is the initiative for opposing the Government moving elsewhere? And does the Official Opposition have the resources it needs to do the job? In the second of two documentaries, Ivor Crewe , Professor of Government at
Essex University, assesses the role of other forms of political opposition, within and beyond Parliament, and tests proposals for strengthening the Official Opposition. Producer JULIAN COLES
TV and radio extracts selected by Margaret Howard
Stereo
BBC correspondents 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 , John Wells and Joan Bakewell
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and JENNIE CAMPBELL Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
(Repeated: Monday 6.30 pm) Stereo
Claire Brooks , David Blunkett Elizabeth CottereU and Lord Chalfont
David March as Dracula by BRAM STOKER adapted for radio by ERIC MACDONALD
'There he lay looking as if youth had been half renewed, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with repletion.'
Other parts played by PAT KEEN , JIM MCMANUS , MADELEINE CEMM and MALCOLM HAYES.
Directed by GLYN DEARMAN Stereo
with Richard Anthony Baker Stereo
'If he was an enemy to one human being it was to himself.'
Just over 200 years ago an inventive, versatile and little known Scotsman,
James Tytler , became the first man in Britain to fly in a balloon. But unlike the enormously successful Montgolfier brothers, Tytler earned only lukewarm praise and then ridicule for his achievement. With the aid of contemporary and modem accounts, Michael Johnston assesses Tytler's extraordinarily eccentric career and examines the forces which seemed always to conspire against him. Readers RONNIE LETHAM.
JOE DUNIOP. HENRY STAMPER.
ARNOLD DIAMOND
Producer JULIAN BROWN
(Repeated: Friday 11.0 am) Stereo Woddis On ... page 79
The name of Mrs Beeton has always conjured up the picture of a plump, homely and practical cook. But, as June Knox-Mawer has been discovering, she was a beautiful and brilliant journalist. With her husband, one of the great Victorian publishers, she made
Mrs Beeton 's Book of Household Management a legend. Producer LUCY LUNT
HEAR THIS! page 13
by Anthony Smith
Presenter Derek Jones
Stereo
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news. Stereo
With PAUUNE BUSHNELL including Sports Round-up
Conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations
Music by FASCINATING AIDA
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
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
En Passant by PETER MCKELVEY
After an adventurous career in the army, John Orwell thought he had taken a steady job as a hotel security officer.
Then the Personnel Director made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Directed by PETER KING
(Repeated: Monday 3.0 pm) Stereo
The last of six programmes Dick Taverne , qc, chairs the series in which issues of controversial concern are put on trial before an audience of 150 jurors. The motion:
Students should pay for their own higher education.
Two advocates are called, each are allowed two supporting witnesses who will be 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
(Repeated: Wed 11.0 am) Stereo
Stereo
The last of six programmes The end of an era. Farewell to the Queens and old-style luxury at sea.
Presented by Robin Worman (First broadcast on BBC Radio Solent)
presents... For Your Hives Only
Written and performed by: [see below]
(Repeated: Friday 6.30 pm)
(Stereo)
followed by an interlude
