Music selected by Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Producer TIM FINNEY

7.10 Today's Papers

Farmers and other country dwellers tackle the topics which are most on their minds. Producer Liz RIGBEY BBC Bimingham

A note from Religious Affairs Correspondent
Rosemary Hartill

Mike Hollingworth talks to Alan Titchmarsh

8.10 Today's Papers (Broadcastat 7.10am)

High summer in England; the Second Test at Lord's, England v Australia; the middle Saturday of Wimbledon. Across the seas, the Irish Derby at the Curragh; high level endurance in the Tour de France.
Presented by Ian Wooldridge Producer ROB BONNET

starring with and 4: The Dinner Party Written by SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN

4: The Blue Riband ... elegance at speed across the Atlantic. Presented by Robin Worman BBC Radio Solent

Linda Christmas presents a personal review of the weekly magazines and assesses their coverage of recent events. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM

Peter Kellner , Political Editor of the New Statesman, reviews the past week.
Producer JIM GRAY

with Margaret Howard Stereo

BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in. Producer ZAREER MASANI

(Details on Monday at 10.0 am)

(Details on Monday at 6. 30pm) Stereo

Cyril Smith , mp Michael Winner
Michael Howard , qc, mp Frances Morrell

A verse play and satire by Mark Beeson.
Monkhurst, a chauvinist primatologist, learns a thing or two from a couple of forthright feminists and some wise beasts of the jungle, including an eagle, a leopard and numerous monkeys.
Stereo

Fourth of seven programmes written by JOHN KEAY
4: The Most Amazing Story a Man Ever Lived to Tell with plus Nigel Graham
Clifford Norgate and Alan Thompson
In August 1898 the Wide World Magazine began publishing an account of the astonishing adventures of Louis de Rougemont. The first instalment ended with the hero, shipwrecked two years before, watching from his desert island as a small catamaran appeared from over the horizon. Further instalments were to describe de Rougemont's encounters with naked savages, cannibal feasts and his quest for the two white wives of an Aborigine chief.
The story tested the credulity of his readers. Certainly it was, as the magazine declared, 'the most amazing story a man ever lived to tell,' but was it true? Narrator John Rowe Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Olivier Pierre is a National Theatre player)

Marjorie Lofthouse chairs a discussion between the Minister for Small Businesses, David Trippier, mp, and some of the finalists in Radio 4's competition for small businesses.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

Veteran broadcaster Harry Soan reflects on some of the jobs he's tackled over the years. 1: The Protestant Ethic Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham

Presented by Derek Jones Stereo

Stereo

With DAVID HITCHINSON including Sports Round-up

The late Roy Plomley spent most of his working life in radio, beginning as an announcer with Radio Normandy. His work for the BBC included chairing One Minute Please, Many a Slip and Round Britain Quiz, as well as the long-running series, Desert Island Discs. John Mortimer presents a tribute to this much-loved broadcaster with help from friends and colleagues, including Elisabeth Welch, Leslie Perowne, Michael Gaunt, Ian Messiter and Irene Thomas, and he plays the eight records Roy probably would have taken to his own mythical island.
Producer DEREK DRESCHER
Stereo
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Conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations.
Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS
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 Nan Woodhouse
Lesley and Malcolm both hate Whitelands Old People's Home. For the girl it's a depressing place to work in. For the man it's a symbol of his failure to care for the mother he loves. A chance meeting helps the two to understand and accept their problems.
BBC Manchester
(Repeated on Monday at 3.0pm)
(Stereo)

Beloved, let us love
(BBC HB 373); Holy is the true light (Harris); Matthew 5, vv 38-48; 1 to the hills will lift mine eyes (BBC HB 459) Stereo

Frogs, it is said, divide their world into three classes - if it's small enough, eat it; if it's too big, run away from it; and if it's intermediate, mate with it. Dr Bob Capranica, from Cornell University, New York, describes the way frogs rely on sound in order that they mate with the right object.
Narrator David Attenborough
BBC Bristol Stereo

Presented by Peter Evans
A weekly review of discoveries and developments from the world's leading laboratories.

(Details on Friday at 6.30pm) Stereo

followed by an interlude