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 andTIMFINNEY
7.10 Today's Papers
A weekly review of the agricultural scene 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 is hoping for plenty of sunshine this weekend as the new County Cricket season begins - but for those interested in snooker, whether it rains or shines matters not.
There's news of the final stages of the Embassy World
Championship, from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Producer JOANNE WATSON
Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to the holiday, travel and leisure scene with help from ROBIN DEWHURST. SUSAN MARLING and PATRICK STODDART Producer HELEN ROBSON
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Anne Robinson presents a personal review of the weekly magazines and assesses their coverage of recent events.
Peter Kellner , Political Editor of The New Statesman, reviews the past week.
Producer JIM GRAY
Claire Rayner presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television over the last seven days.
Stereo
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the countries they work in -the politics and the people. Producer ZAREER MASANI
Presented by Louise Botting
The programme that keeps you in touch with what's happening in the field of personal savings, investment, mortgages, insurance, social security and the financial problems of everyday life
Address: Money Box
Room 4058. Broadcasting House London WIA 4WW
The last of six programmes by RICHARD TURNER and WILLIAM OSBORNE starring Robert Lindsay Happiness is Work
'Everything must go'
With CHRISTOPHER BARR. PAM FERRIS
DAVID GOODLAND. SIOBHAN REDMOND
PAUL SHEARER. EMMA THOMPSON and RICHARD TURNER Producer NICK SYMONS BBC Manchester
Stereo
The Rt Hon Barbara Castle , MEP Pieter Dankert , MEP Magnus Magnusson and Nicholas Bethell , MEP
by Emlyn Williams
[Starring] Michael Redgrave (1908-85) as Tolstoy
with Gwen Ffragcon-Davies as Katya and Felicity Hayes-McCoy as Katya as a young girl.
Count Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 and died in the winter of 1910 at the small railway junction of Astapovo. The play depicts an imaginary meeting between the great writer and a young peasant girl in the last hour of his life. ERIC HILL (guitar)
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
(First broadcast in 1978)
(A second tribute to Sir Michael Redgrave, Performing Flea, can be heard at 3.30pm)
Andrew Joynes remembers a Saxon town in the Sussex Weald - and a man who taught history in parables.
Producer JULIAN COLES
Guests THE EDDIE THOMPSON TRIO Stereo
Compiled by SAM POLLOCK , with Michael Redgrave as P.G. Wodehouse
Narrator Martin Jarvis
It is a serene summer afternoon at Remsenburg, Long Island, and at 87, P.G. Wodehouse is hard at work on another
Blandings novel. He breaks off to meditate on 'my way of life, past and present', and to recall 'my opinions and reflections on practically everything under the sun'.
Sir Michael voice was warm but slightly weary, the music which threaded the programme was sweet and sharp at the same time.... A piece of broadcasting perfection.
(GILLIAN REYNOLDS)
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (First broadcast in 1978)
Marjorie Lofthouse looks at this year's finalists in the Radio 4 competition for the most enterprising small business in Britain.
3: Jigsaw Publication Ltd While still an Oxford undergraduate, Carey
Labovitch launched a magazine which was the forerunner of a completely new breed of publication. Today, four years later, and now operating from offices in London, Wl, Blitz is one of the most important and influential magazines catering for the stylish young adult market.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
The Shetland Fire Festival
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
Presented by Derek Jones Stereo
Stereo
With CLIVE ROSUN 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, reviving old favourites, introducing the less familiar, and including some recent releases.
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
by Rod Beacham
A hired assassin, a chess-playing Hungarian, a concert harpist and a septuagenarian lady mountaineer are just some of the travellers on the King's Cross-Edinburgh overnight express. And then, of course, there's the dead body in the baggage compartment. The going's easy but will anyone be coming back?
(Repeated on Monday at 3.0) (Stereo)
Glory to thee. my God, this night (BBC HB 414); 0 for a closer walk (Anthems for Choirs 1);
John 21, vv 1-14; Now the day is over (BBC HB 419) Stereo
Forty years after the end of the Second World War,
Richard Mayne reports on the men who helped bring Europe out of the ruins and into the peace. 2: Clement Attlee
For Britain, an austere peace Producer JULIAN HALE
Presented by Peter Evans
Snooker and darts double-bill. Higgins and Thorburn at 9-9.
One frame to go. Eric Bristow on the 'ockey/ockey/hockie.
Simultaneous transmission. Get the full benefit of your stereo. John Docherty (sentences) Moray Hunter (sentences) Pete Baikie (scales)
Gordon Kennedy (commas) Producer ALAN NIXON (jerseys)
Stereo
followed by an interlude
