Music selected by Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Farming, food and countryside news market trends, weather Producers ALLAN WRIGHT andTIMFINNEY
Each week someone with a topical or personal story to tell reflects upon their experience.
Farming folk describe their lives and discuss the issues which confront them in the 80s. Producer LIZ RIG BEY 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
The top Saturday of the summer for sporting socialites: Ladies' Finals Day at Wimbledon; and semi-finals at the Henley Royal Regatta. Spectators there to both see and be seen.
Tony Lewis is your host. Producer ROB BONNET
starring
5: Gossip
'I mean, when you hear things like what that girl
Tania Williams was doing behind the science block at the comprehensive, well....' Written by SIMON BRETT
Producer PETE ATKIN
Memories of the great days of the big liners....
5: The Liners Go to War
Presented by Robin Worman BBC Radio Solent
Francis Wheen presents a personal review of the weekly magazines and assesses their coverage of recent events. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Robert Carvel of The London Standard reviews the week. Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
with Margaret Howard
(Extended repeat of yesterday broadcast) Stereo
BBC correspondents talk about the countries they work in. Producer ZAREER MASANI
Presented by Jeanine McMullen (Details on Monday at 10.0 am)
(Details on Monday at 6.30pm) Stereo
Norman Lamont , mp
The Rev Donald Reeves AnnMallalieu
The Rt Hon Enoch Powell , mp
Swimmer by CHRISTOPHER RUSSELL Winner of the 1984 Giles Cooper Award
Neil Crosby , a taunted crippled boy, learns to swim brilliantly. But when he falls in love with a girl at the pool, his obsessional belief in water as his true element turns to something more sinister.
Location recording at the Porchester Baths, London, by CEDRIC JOHNSON. JULIAN WALTHER and BRIAN PRIOR
Technical presentation by DAVID GREENWOOD. PAUL PEARSON and VANESSA ELLNER
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo
Best Radio Plays of 1984: BBC Giles Cooper Award winners are now published by MethuenjBBC Publications at £9.95
The fifth of seven programmes written by JOHN KEAY
5: The Obsessive Quest
Narrator John Rowe with Christopher Douglas In 1842 Ludwig Leichhardt stepped ashore at Sydney after a four-month voyage from Europe. He was sickly and short-sighted, but he believed destiny had chosen him to make the first crossing of the vast continent of Australia.
He set off with seven largely inexperienced followers on a fearsome journey of some 2,000 miles, which he reckoned would take five months. In the event it took 15 months. Leichhardt was acclaimed a hero and he planned a more ambitious journey deeper into the interior. Early in 1848 he was off again. That final journey was to become one of the unresolved mysteries of exploration. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
In this final programme of the series Marjorie Lofthouse reveals the £10,000 prize-winner and the two runners-up in Radio 4's competition for small businesses.
The finalists are Cliffhanger Ltd
Intellemetrics Ltd Isoflex Ltd
Jigsaw Publications Ltd
Microspark Machine Tools
Peter Milne , Furniture Maker Reginald Widdas
Susi Madron 's Holidays
The Inflatable Play Equipment Company Ltd
The Number Plate Centre (Midlands) Ltd The judges are:
Stuart Young , Chairman of the BBC; Alan Stote of the CBI's Smaller Firms Council
Georgina Von Etzdorfand
John Nettleton , last year's joint winners. The awards will be presented by The Chancellor of the Exchequer,
The Rt Hon Nigel Lawson , mp Producer JOCK GALLAGHER BBC Birmingham
with Harry Soan
(Details on Tuesday at 9.30pm)
Presented by Derek Jones
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news Stereo
with BRYAN MARTIN including Sports Round-up
The Rt Hon David Owen , mp, presents his personal choice of poetry and prose.
(Details on Friday at 9.5 am) Stereo
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Music by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
Richard Baker presents a selection of words and music on record.
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
A Study in Hatred by Richard Huggett
The year is 1897 when the colourful world of West End
Theatre has Sir Henry Irving as its 'guvnor' and William Terriss among its stars. Prince, a poor Scots actor, arrives to make his fame and fortune, but stays instead to play a leading role in a real-life tragedy that more than equals any on the stage of his day
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Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (BBC HB 351); Save us 0 Lord, waking (Bairstow); I Kings 3, w 3-15; God be in my head (BBC HB 512) Stereo
2: Female Choice
Anthony Arak , Cambridge University; Stanley Rand, Smithsonian Institute.
Washington; and Michael Ryan , Cornell University, New York, consider sneaky males, seductive impostors, and the story of the frog and the bat.
Narrator David Attenborough Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT
BBC Bristol Stereo
Presented by Peter Evans
(Details on Friday at 6.30pm) Stereo
followed by an interlude
