Music selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford. BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Producer ALLAN WRIGHT
7.10 Today's Papers
Producer uz RIGBEY BBC Birmingham
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent
Rosemary Hartill
Mike Gilliam talks to Alan Titchmarsh
8.10 Today's Papers
Tony Lewis brings you the best of the sporting news this weekend and chats to some of the people who have been making the headlines. Producer EMILY MCMAHON
Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to the holiday, travel and leisure scene with help from ROBIN DEWHURST SUSAN MARLING , PATRICK STODDART Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Angela Gordon presents a personal review of the weekly magazines.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Adam Raphael , Political
Columnist of The Observer, reviews the past week. Producer JIM GRAY
Stereo
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in. Producer ZAREER MASANI
Presented by Louise Botting (Details on Monday at 10.0 am)
Short stories by P.G. Wodehouse.
Adapted for radio by Richard Usborne.
With Richard Vernon as Lord Emsworth and Lockwood West as Beach
Melvyn Bragg , Diana Warwick Lord Vinson and Joan Hall
Broken Wings, Bright Stars by MIKE WALKER
Life in Tomas's village in Brazil hadn't changed for generations - the menfolk fished and the womenfolk cared for their families. Then developers moved in - with offers of jobs and money for all the young men. Tomas faces a dilemma when his grandfather asks for his help on a very special assignment.
Directed Dy CHRISTOPHER VENNING Stereo
Stereo
The last programme in the series of themes and variations from the lives of the Indian princes in their own words, and those of some who knew them. 6: The Palaces of Twilight 'I had to tell them that all authority which had existed for so many years, that whole dynastic thing, would be coming to an end. I had said that what we had done was for their interest, and one old village head said in Gujarati, "That is all very well. Sir, but who will now wipe our tears?"' Compiled and presented by Charles Allen
Producer MICHAEL MASON
Stereo
In today's hi-tech world, when most developments are the product of costly research programmes, private inventors may seem to be a dying breed. Not so, according to
Wendy Jones who recently visited the Invention Showcase exhibition, organised by the Institute of Patentees and Inventors. But the small inventors do not have an easy run - in gaining acceptance, financial backing, or protection from piracy. Are their talents being wasted? Producer GORDON HUTCHINGS
by Anthony Smith
Presented by Derek Jones Stereo
Stereo
With HARRIET CASS including Sports Round-up
Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
Richard Baker presents a selection of words and music. Producer ANDREW MUSSETT. Stereo
Private Correspondence by NICHOLAS STARK
A series of brutal murders terrorises the City of Cardiff until Inspector Boyd decides to try a dangerous gamble. If Boyd is right, he may well catch the killer - if he's wrong he might have just set up the next murder himself.
Letters read by FIONA scott KATHRYN DIMERY , EIRY PALFREY Directed on locatiort in Cardiff by ADRIAN MOURBY. BBC Wales
The Shetland Fire Festival
From grand old Viking centuries Up-Helly-Aa has come,
Then light the torch and form the march and sound the rolling drum.
(J. J. HALDANE BURGESS)
Vikings set the Shetland town of Lerwick alight on the night of Up-Helly-Aa. Phil Smith investigates this colourful and rowdy spree.
Producer JOHN LEONARD BBC Manchester
Conducted by David Craig Stereo
A topical religious or moral matter of importance is investigated. This week's reporter is Bernard Jackson Producer and series editor JOHN NEWBURY
Presented by Peter Evans
'In One Ear' is performed live each week at The Paris Studio,
Lower Regent Street, London Wl. Doors open at 11.0 pm.
(Details on Friday at 6.30 pm) Stereo
followed by an interlude