Music selected by Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Producers ALLAN WRIGHT , TIM FINNEY
7.10 Today's Papers
The programme which takes you mto the countryside. Producer LIZ RIGBEY BBC Birmingham
with Rosemary HartiU
Mike Gilliam asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.
8.10 Today's Papers
As Oxford and Cambridge prepare to meet at Twickenham and Wembley, Tony Lewis nostalgically dons his light blue scarf and explores the declining importance of Varsity sport. Plus a look at the weekend's sports news and personalities. Producer GORDON TURNBULL
Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to the holiday, travel and leisure scene with help from Robin Dewhurst , Susan Marling and Patrick Stoddart.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
David Bradbury presents a personal review of the weekly magazines and assesses their coverage of recent events. Producer JOHN EDWARDS
James Naughtie , Chief Political Correspondent of The Guardian, presents a personal review of a week in the parliamentary life of MPs and peers.
Producer SHEILA COOK
with Margaret Howard Stereo
Reflections on life and politics abroad from the BBC's worldwide team of foreign correspondents. Producer ZAREER MASANI
(Details on Monday at 10. 0 am)
Alan Coren and Richard Ingrams lead their guests Robert Chesshyre and Nina Myskow into the last lap of the present series.
Bringing up the rear your Chairman Barry Took
Compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer HARRY THOMPSON
(Re-broadcast on Monday at S 30pm) Stereo
Richard Needham , mp David Penhaligon , mp Joe Ashton , mp and Lynda Rouse
Lord Glenaldy
A three-part serial by A. R. RAWLINSON with and Episode 1
This is a true story; it might even be called a murder story. When Captain Angus Fraser lost a leg at Dunkirk, it seemed that his war was over. But other people had plans for Angus and, had he known it, the fun was just beginning.
Pianist ANTONY MIALL
Script editor BARRY CAMPBELL Directed by GRAHAM GAULD Stereo
Hosts to the World
Sick and severely crippled nearly all his life, Edward Burra ignored all attempts to fuss over him, promote his work, or cultivate him as a 'personality'.
George Melly presents a portrait of this eccentric artist with a remarkable talent.
With the voice of Burra himself and contributions from his sister Lady Ann Ritchie ,
Barbara Ker-Seymer , William Chappell , Dr Geoffrey Dove and Bryan Robertson.
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS (R)
(The exhibition 'Edward Burra ' at Leeds City Art Gallery until 12 January 1986)
A series of six combative talks in which the novelist Howard Jacobson vents his spleen on more or less deserving subjects. 3: Horatios not Hamlets
'It might seem surprising that I should feel an affinity with someone like John McEnroe , in whom the impulse to win is every bit as strong as the impulse in me to make my opponent win.'
Written and presented by Ivan Rendall
The story of some of the people who have made aviation history this century, told in six programmes
5: Higher and Faster
Test pilots of the Jet Age, featuring John Cunningham and Charles Yeager
Producer ANNE HOWELLS (R) Revised Stereo
Book, 'Flyers! The Spirit of Kitty Hawk ' by Ivan Rendall , £ 3.95 from booksellers
An irreverently critical look back at last week's news Stereo
With CHARLOTTE GREEN including Sports Round-up
... and I take such minute pains and cut and polish, that nopraise is so pleasant as the flattery that the word-painting has fallen artistically in the reader's ears. Mrs Ewing , the author of Victorian children's favourites like A Flat Iron for a Farthing, was also a prolific correspondent. Margaret Lesser selects from the letters to compile her portrait.
With Avril Elgar as Mrs Ewing Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Cotswold Carpenter Something in the City The third extract from
Christopher Elderfield's memoirs, in which he describes his impressions of London after the First World War and the people he worked with before finally returning to the countryside to become a foreman joiner.
Read by Bob Arnold
Adapted by MICHAEL FORD BBC Birmingham
Saturday evening table talk inspired by current public and private preoccupations. Music by FASCINATING AIDA
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
(Revised broadcast on Fri at 9.5 am) Stereo
Himalaya by JONATHAN NEALE with and In the primitive conditions of the 1940s, Major Acaster leads an expedition to conquer the terrible and menacing Chong Mal - a challenge fraught with torture, terror, danger and death.
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3. Opm) Stereo
Benedictus - the Forerunner
On Jordan's bank (BBC HB 38); The truth from above (CAROLS FOR CHOIRS 2); Luke 1, w 68-79; Thy kingdom come on bended knee (BBC HB 28). Stereo
A current religious or moral topic is explored. Tonight's presenter is Ted Harrison Researcher CAROLINE DONNE Producer CHRIS REES
Series editor JOHN NEWBURY
On the corner of Cannon Street in the City of London, stands a 12-foot leopard. Unveiled earlier this year by the Lord Mayor, the bronze statue is the work of the sculptor Jonathan Kenworthy and took two years to complete. Anthony Smith traces the creature's development from drawings through plaster casts to the finished bronze.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN (R)
Short professional man, 46, in a rut, needs woman (no preference) for no-holds-barred relationship in office after hours. Hobbies - nylon shirts and stretching across the dinner table Reply: Box 4
With Helen Lederer ,
Clive Mantle , Nick Wilton and Steve Brown
Music by STEVE BROWN
Written by ARNOLD BROWN.
STEVE BROWN , PAUL B. DA VIES, JEREMY HARDY. HUNTER AND DOCHERTY, JOHN IRWIN. HELEN LEDERER , PAUL MARTIN. HELEN MURRY , GEOFFREY PERKINS. ROGER PLANER. SMITH AND KYAN NICK WILTON and the producer JAMIE Rix
('In One Ear' performed live each week at the Paris Studio,
Lower Regent Street, London Wl Doors open at 11.0pm)
(Re-broadcast on Fri at 12.27 pm) Stereo
followed by an interlude