Music selected by Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Producers ALLAN WRIGHT , TIM FINNEY
7.10 Today's Papers
Producer LIZ RIGBEY BBC Birmingham
with Rosemary Hartill
Mike Gilliam asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.
8.10 Today's Papers
In the curtain-raiser to the NatWest Trophy Final,
Essex v Nottinghamshire, Tony Lewis leads his team down the pavilion steps at Lord's. Let's hope that he's carrying a bat and not a mop and sponge! Ron Jones is padded up behind the sticks, although he's minding the goal posts rather than the stumps. How often will the Welsh ball beat the Scottish bat next Tuesday? And
Tony Adamson pitches in from the US Open tennis. He may be no-balled for bending his arm but at least he's dressed in white! Twelfth man DAVE GORDON
Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to holidays, travel and leisure with help from Robin Dewhurst , Susan Marling and Patrick Stoddart. Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF Editor ROGER MACDONALD including at 9.0 News
with Francis Wheen
Producer MIKE HOLLINGWORTH
Jimmy Reid presents a personal report from Blackpool on the Trades Union Congress
Conference - from the gossip in the corridors to debates from the floor.
Producer ZAREER MASANI
with Barry Fantoni
Producer ZAREER MASANI
Presented by Jeanine McMullen
(Details on Monday at 6.30) Stereo
The second of a two-part documentary in which David Wade talks to some wartime child evacuees who, 45 years ago, found themselves in homes very different from their own. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (R) Stereo
Jacob Creber and the Felsoe Worm
A comedy by GERRY MCKEE with A rebellious teenager runs away from home with an eccentric old gardener on a cross-country magical mystery tour, retracing the steps of a local legend.... Recorded on location
OB engineers JULIAN WALTHER ANDY LESLIE , ROD DOLLIMORE Technical presentation by TIM STURGEON
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON (R) Stereo
by Valerie Windsor
An impression of the relationship between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry based on their letters
with Moir Leslie as Katherine
Katherine Mansfield was born in New Zealand in 1888 and died tragically of TB in 1923. Her marriage to John Middleton Murry was a strange one which seemed to work better when they were apart.
BBC Manchester
(LW)
A memoir of The Rev Michael Scott and his struggle for justice in Africa
Written and presented by Mary Benson with the voices of DAVID ASTOR. PETER KUENSTLER
ERNEST MORTON. MICHAEL SCOTT
Newsreader CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS Producer PIERS PLOWRIGHT
(Details on Tuesday at 9.30pm)
Presented by Derek Jones
David Lander returns for another series of investigative reports
1: The Secret Dis-service
With BRIAN MARTIN including Sports Round-up
A series of seven programmes written by JOHN KEAY 3: Paddling for Christ
Narrator John Rowe with John Rye and Brian Smith
The unique approach of John MacGregor to the business of exploration was that he did it all in his own purpose-built canoe. His climactic journey to explore the sources of the River Jordan brought him close to death. But MacGregor survived to hold audiences spellbound with a dramatised account of his adventures.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (R)
(A book based on this series will be published next month by BBC
Publications in association with John Murray ) Stereo
What gives people the feeling of attachment to a particular town or part of the country?
On a journey around Scotland Maurice Lindsay encounters some strong loyalties held for a variety of reasons.
Producer JOHN ARNOTT (Rev R)
Richard Baker presents a selection of words and music on record.
Producer JANE BEVAN
(Rev broadcast on Friday at 9.5 am) Stereo
Dithering Heights by KEN WHITMORE
Jimmy Trotter , a theatre impresario down on his luck, decides to run courses for lady culture vultures in an old house he has rented on the Yorkshire Moors. The wrong party turns up and strange things begin to happen. The wind howls, Mrs Rochester howls, and when he finds that he has lost his trousers, even the Bishop of Skipton howls.
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY BBC Manchester
Surrounded by prickles, the hedgehog sleeps from November to March, waking in the spring to feed and find a mate. Despite the many and varied dangers of living in the 20th century, the resilient hedgehog is a great survivor.
Narrated by Eleanor Bron Readings by Douglas Leach
Written and compiled by KATE TIFFIN BBCBristol. Stereo
The Lord is my shepherd
(BBC HB 480); Like as the hart
(Howells); II Samuel 22, vv 1-19; The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (BBC HB 426) Stereo
11: Monkey Business
Pat Kuhl , Washington
University, Seattle;
Peter Marler , Rockefeller University, New York; Charles Snowdon , University of Wisconsin; and Tom Strusacker , New York
Zoological Society unravel the 'graded' system of monkey calls. Narrator David Attenborough Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT
BBCBristol (R) Stereo
Colin Tudge visits de Wildt, the Cheetah Research Centre in the Transvaal.
with Nick Wilton
Helen Lederer , Steve Brown and Clive Mantle
Written by HUNTER and DOCHERTY JAMES HENDRIE , ARNOLD BROWN
MURRY. RIX, WILTON. ROGER PLANER PAUL B. DAVIES and others Music by STEVE BROWN
Producer JAMIE RIX (R) Stereo
followed by an interlude
