Music selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather. Producers ALLAN WRIGHT , LIZ RIGBEY
A meditation for the beginning of the new day.
7.10 Today's Papers
A weekly review of the agricultural scene
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
Tony Lewis looks forward to another busy and exciting weekend in the world of sport. With the start of the Five
Nations' Rugby International Championship today, England travel to Dublin to play
Ireland, while Wales face the tough challenge of the favourites, France, at Pare des Princes in Paris.
And another Welshman in for a tough match is Colin Jones , who tonight in Birmingham is boxing for the World
Welterweight Title against Don Curry of the United
States. ian DARKE has been spending some time in the village of Gorseinon keeping an eye on Jones's preparation for this fight.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON
Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to the holiday, travel and leisure scene with help from FRANK BARRETT , SUSAN MARLING and PATRICK STODDART. Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF Editor ROGER MCDONALD
Martin Wainwright presents a personal review of the weekly magazines.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Hugo Young , political columnist of the Guardian, reviews the past week. Producer JIM GRAY
TV and radio extracts selected by Margaret Howard
Stereo
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in - the politics and the people. Producer ZAREER MASANI
(Nert edition: Tuesday 10.0 am)
Presented by Louise Botting Address: Money Box
Room 4058, Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW
(Repeated: 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 , Stan McMurtry Rob Buckman and Irma Kurtz
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and JENNIE CAMPBELL Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
(Repeated: Monday 6.30 pm) Stereo
Germaine Greer
General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley
Professor Brian Griffiths and Richard Cottrell , mep
Another Time by OWEN HOLDER
The private and the public faces of great men are notoriously dissimilar - and. however well known, what if neither is that person's face at all?
Directed by IAN COTTERELL Stereo
with Richard Anthony Baker Stereo
Themes and variations from the lives of the Indian Princes in their own words, and those of some who knew them.
1: Nizams, Nawabs, Rajas and Raos: a Princely Panorama 'The Indian concept of kingship was different from the European - neither absolute monarchy nor benevolent despotism nor autocracy but something more like a family tie between ruler and subject.'
Compiled and presented by Charles Allen
Producer MICHAEL MASON
(Repeated: Friday 11.0 am) Stereo
W FEATURE: page 9
The Rev John Atkinson spent the second half of last century in the remote parish of Danby on the North Yorkshire moors. He was intrigued by the speech and customs of his parishioners, which he recorded in his great work
40 Years in a Moorland Parish. James Munson selects from the book to give a flavour of life in Victorian Danby. with Geoffrey Banks as Atkinson Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
by Anthony Smith
Presenter Derek Jones
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news. Stereo
With PETER DONALDSON 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.
Producer JILL ANDERSON. Stereo
by Christopher Russell
A play based on the true story of the British Naval Africa Expedition of 1915, which trekked 3,000 miles from South Africa to Lake Tanganyika, carrying two gunboats, in order to overcome German domination of the lake. With Barry Foster as Commander Spicer-Simson, the eccentric leader of the expedition, who became known as 'Navyman God'.
(Stereo)
Hail gladdening light
(Congregational Praise 612);
Jesu the very thought of thee - Vittoria (Church Anthem Book); John 1, vv 35-51; Sun of my soul (EH 274). Stereo
The first in a series of 13 programmes examining religious and moral matters of the moment.
Reporters include
Rosemary Hartill , BBC Religious Affairs
Correspondent, Ted Harrison , Bernard Jackson and Trevor Barnes.
Research BEVERLEY MCAINSH
Editor JOHN NEWBURY
presents Heaven is for Fascists Written and performed by Producer JAMIE rix
(Repeated: Friday 6.30 pm) Stereo • FEATURE: page 5
followed by an interlude
