Music selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Producer ALLAN WRIGHT
7.10 Today's Papers
A weekly review Producer LIZ RIGBEY 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 ahead to a busy weekend of sport. The FA Cup semi-finals take place, with Manchester United against Liverpool and Everton v Luton. Plus news from Las Vegas on the build-up to the Middleweight Championship of the World between
Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns. Producer EMILY MCMAHON
Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to the holiday, travel and leisure scene with help from ROBIN DEWHURST
SUSAN MARUNG , PATRICK STODDART Producer HELEN ROBSON
Editor ROGER MACDONALD including at
Michael Watts presents a personal review of the weekly magazines.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
The Lobbyists
As more lobbyists take on more paying clients to represent their interests at Westminster and in Whitehall, Ivor Crewe ,
Professor of Government at
Essex University, investigates this thriving industry and its place in politics.
Are the lobbyists slick PR men or professional advocates? Can they really affect political decisions? How do MPs respond to their advances? And is there a case for regulation? Producer JULIAN COLES
with 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 on Monday at 10.0 am)
by RICHARD TURNER and WILLIAM OSBORNE
Starring Robert Lindsay
'Difficult day? C'mon, smile it all away'
With CHRISTOPHER BARR, STEPHEN FRY, DAVID GOODLAND, SIOBHAN REDMOND, PAUL SHEARER,
EMMA THOMPSON, RICHARD TURNER
Producer NICK SYMONS
BBC Manchester
Baroness Phillips, jp Jeffrey Archer
David Penhaligon , mp and George Davies.
The Joking Habit by DAVID CREGAN with Barry Foster , Sheila Allen Elizabeth Spriggs ,
Moray Watson and Geoffrey Beevers "This is the story of a love affair that never had a chance, and the reason for that, at any rate, was simple.'
Other parts played by PATRICK BARR , JOHN CHURCH. JUDY FRANKLIN and ALEXANDER JOHN
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
(First broadcast on Radio 3) Stereo
Reasonably Together Again
The first of six entertainments with guests FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS Stereo
Peter France reports on a group of Christians in Combe Martin , Devon, who celebrate the Eucharist according to the Russian Orthodox liturgy.
Marjorie Lofthouse looks at this year's finalists in the Radio 4 competition for the most enterprising small business in Britain.
1: Reginald Widdas
From their Clerkenwell premises in London,
David Pescod and Ian Williams produce a distinctive line in greetings cards - from the innocently ridiculous to the distinctly risque.
Producer JOCK GALLAHER BBC Birmingham
The judges for the Enterprise competition are Stuart Young ,
Chairman of the BBC; Alan Stote ,
Chairman of the CBI's Smaller Firms Council; and Georgina Von Etzdorf and John Nettleton (joint winners of the 1984 award)
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In August 1933 Punch published a poem about a duck-billed platypus which managed to qualify for the Diplomatic Service. It caught the imagination of readers, and continues to attract anthologists - but who wrote it? Michael Paffard follows a trail of clues which leads to the Mother of Parliaments. Reader GEOFFREY BANKS Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
Presented by Derek Jones Stereo
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news Stereo
With DAVID HITCHINSON including Sports Round-up
Conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations.
Music by PETER SKELLERN
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
Richard Baker presents a selection of words and music on record.
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
Regatta
A tale of Edwardian espionage by DOUGLAS YOUNG
1909: the European courts are nests of intrigue, as the Great Powers arm. At Rosyth dockyard on the Forth, a German plot is detected - but what exactly is the Hun up to?
Pianist ROBERT PETTIGREW Directed by PATRICK RAYNER BBC Scotland
0 sons and daughters, let us sing (BBC HB 110); 0 Christ, 0 blessed Lord (Anthems for Choirs 1); John 21, w 15-19;
Away with gloom, away with doubt! (BBC HB 99) Stereo
In the last programme of the present series, a topical, religious, or moral matter is investigated by this week's reporter Carole Rosen.
Researcher BEVERLEY MCAINSH Producer and series editor JOHNNEWBURY
Arsenal Football Club has fans who range from the royal to the loyal and from the youngest of the 'Junior Gunners' to those who vaguely remember a different game before 'soccer fans' became synonymous with louts and hooligans.
In the last few months, football violence has made headline news, but the horror stories may not be an accurate image of the game.
Every week there are hundreds of thousands of orderly fans who attend matches - home or away -with undying devotion. Nigel Farrell - who until recently had never attended a professional game - has spent the season following the fans and the fortunes of one of the League's top clubs - Arsenal. Producer PETER ESTALL. Stereo
Comedy with John Docherty ,
Moray Hunter , Pete Baikie and Gordon Kennedy
(Details on Friday at 6.30pm) Stereo
followed by an interlude
