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
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 presents another weekend of sporting chatter, mixing the news, views and Personalities involved in the world of sport. Today the programme takes a look at the fourth round of the FA Cup and hears from Chandigarh in India, where England's cricketers are preparing for their fifth One Day
International against India. Producer EMILY MCMAHON
Hong Kong is, perhaps, the fastest, most exhilarating city in the Far East. Susan Marling , with help from
RICHARD VAUGHAN , explores the islands and neighbouring provinces and glimpses the ancient Chinese world beyond.
Producer JENNY MALUNSON DUFF
Francis Wheen presents a personal review of the weekly magazines and assesses their coverage of recent events. 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 talk about the countries they work in-the politics and the people. Producer ZAREER MASANI
Presented by Louise Botting The programme with the latest news from the world of personal finance, covering investment, tax, pensions and insurance, and a look at some particular money problems sent in by listeners. Address: Money Box,
Room 4058, Broadcasting House, London WL4 4WW
(Repeated: Monday 10.0 am)
Last of the series in which the news of the last seven days is examined by the people who write it, with searching questions put in a curious way by Simon Hoggart to Alan Coren , David Taylor
John Wells , Angela Gordon. Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and JENNIE CAMPBELL Producer JENNIE CAMPBELL
(Repeated: Monday 6.30 pm) Stereo
Robert Maxwell , The Rt Hon Sir Edward du Cann , mp, Derek Jameson and Doreen Miller , jp
An Occasional Day by PETER TlNNlSWOOD
Heather and Larry are teachers, married but separated. On their occasional days off from school they meet. This is one of them.
Narrator CHRISTOPHER BENJAMIN
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester
(First broadcast in 1981)
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.
2: Bom to the Sound of Drums: The Childhood of Princes
'I had a fantastic childhood. It's unbelievable. I have a daughter and when she grows up and I tell her, she's not going to believe it. It's like out of a fairytale, we lived in a palace, had hundreds of servants....'
Compiled by CHARLES ALLEN Producer MICHAEL MASON (Repeated: Friday 11.0 am) Stereo
Winter 1945. In a munitions depot near Derby, a lusty young German prisoner-of-war catches sight of a pretty English factory girl. 'She noticed me, and one day I found she was smiling a little bit more than is usual. So I wrote her a note.' She snatches the note from the moving conveyor belt.... 'He'd write me these lovely verses. I can remember the first one he wrote: "to love and be loved is the greatest joy on earth".' John Black tells the extraordinary story of Werner and Muriel, of their daredevil love affair under the eyes of the British military, and of its bitter-sweet ending. Producer SIMON ELMES
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by Anthony Smith
Presenter Derek Jones
Stereo
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, reviving old favourites, introducing the less familiar, and including some recent releases.
Producer JILL ANDERSON. Stereo
Ceremonies of War by Philip Purser
At a farewell dance in 1942; aboard a troopship in convoy to the Far East, 1943; in a small town in newly-occupied
Germany, 1945 - Leonard Cottle grows up.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Monday 3.0 pm) Stereo
Hail, gladdening light (BBC HB 416); God is living, God is here (Anthems for Choirs); John 2, vv 1-11; Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise (BBC HB 423) Stereo
A topical religious or moral matter of importance is investigated.
On the reporting team: Rosemary Hartill ,
BBC Religious Affairs Correspondent; Ted Harrison
Bernard Jackson and Trevor Barnes
Research BEVERLEY MCAINSH Editor JOHN NEWBURY
Presented by Peter Evans
presents....
Gonad's Alamo
Written and performed by Producer JAMIE RIX
(Repeated: Friday 6.30 pm) Stereo
followed by an interlude
