Music selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford
BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Producer TIM FINNEY
this week investigates share farming - one way of getting young people on to the food production ladder.
Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Birmingham
A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent
Rosemary Hartill
Mike Hollingworth asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.
8.10 Today's Papers
Tony Lewis hosts a leisurely look at the sporting world. England play their 'home'
International with Scotland
'away' at Hampden. Is this the way to beat the hooligans?
News, too, from New Zealand where England's rugby tourists play Auckland.
Producer JOANNE WATSON
Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to the holiday travel and leisure scene with help from FRANK BARRETT , SUSAN MARLING and PATRICK STODDART Producer HELEN ROBSON
Editor ROGER MACDONALD
Angela Gordon presents a review of the weekly magazines. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Michael Elliott of The Economist 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. 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.
The antidote to panel games. Another Bank Holiday ruined by Kenny Everett
Willie Rushton , Barry Cryer and especially
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Humphrey Lyttelton fails to keep order, COLIN SELL fails to accompany him.
PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER fails
Stereo
Frederic Raphael , Gavin Laird Margaret Daly , MEP and Mgr Bruce Kent
The Dissolution of Marcus Fleishman by STEPHEN DAVIS with and The Fleishmans are Jews. He dies in the war, she escapes to England with their son, adopts the name of Fletcher and runs a sweet-shop. In the evolutionary scale of things he is metamorphosed into an ape used for inhuman experiments. Other parts DAVID GRAHAM ,JAMES THOMASON
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN Stereo
In the first of two programmes Sue MacGregor talks to Wg Cdr
Muriel Volestrangler, FRHS and bar. No mention is made of her difficult relationship with John Cleese.
Stereo
The Story of a Railway Heresy One hundred and fifty years ago Parliament agreed to the building of a railway between Bristol and London. This led to one of the strangest episodes in railway history....
Presented by Roger Worsley
(Full details Friday at 11.0am) Stereo
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Marjorie Lofthouse looks at this year's finalists in Radio 4's competition for the most enterprising small business. 7: Cliffhanger Limited From their factory in Southend-on-Sea, this company produce a new concept in supporting shelves.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
In the fourth of six talks
John Morgan describes how a derelict Cardiff dockside has been transformed into a new
Bohemia of writers, actors and cartoonists, whose work is seen around the world.
Presented by Derek Jones Stereo
Stereo
With DAVID HITCHINSON
Russell Harty and his guest Victoria Wood choose pieces of music for each other as stepping-stones in a conversation that is free-ranging and sometimes surprising.
(Stereo)
Conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations.
Music by FASCINATING aida
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
In 1808 a British expeditionary force under the young
Arthur Wellesley landed in Portugal to tackle the invading French. Some 176 years later a rather smaller British force - consisting mainly of David Bean - made the same trip for rather different reasons. Producer GILLIAN HUSH
BBC Manchester
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Come down, 0 love divine (BBC HB 149); 0 Lord, give thy Holy
Spirit (Tallis); Luke 24, w 36-49; 0 Christ, who art the light and day (BBC HB 421) Stereo
'The unequal status of women in our society is a social evil of great antiquity.' It was with those words in 1975, that the then Home Secretary, The Rt Hon
Roy Jenkins , mp, introduced the Sex Discrimination Bill. In the same year, the United Nations launched its 'Decade for
Women'. Yet inequality between the sexes remains rife.
Ten years on Susan Marling talks to some of the people who believe that, in 1985, fairness is still a rare commodity.
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE
Colin Tudge visits the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research
New variety acts from London's thriving fringe circuit.
Recorded at the Hemingford
Arms, Islington, North London. Researched by NICK SYMONS and the producer ALAN NIXON Stereo
followed by an interlude
