Music selected by Thelma Bailey and Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Farming and countryside news. Producers ALLAN WRIGHT. TIM FINNEY
with Bernard Jackson Stereo
7.10 Today's Papers
The farming world washes its dirty wellies in public but once a year - at the annual meeting of the NFU. The split between horn and corn, between small farmers and large, between east and west.... all are revealed when hundreds of farmers come to London to air their views. Producer LIZ RIGBEY
(Revised broadcast Mondayat 7.20pm)
with Rosemary Hartill
Mike Gilliam talks to Alan Titchmarsh.
8.10 Today's Papers
Presented by Tony Lewis
It's a great day to be Irish and in Dublin! Barry McGuigan defends his World
Featherweight Boxing crown at the Royal Dublin Society while at Lansdowne Road Ireland face Wales in rugby's Five Nations
Championship. And if you've no Irish ancestry, there's also the Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield and the Fifth Round of the FA Cup. Producer GORDON TURNBULL
Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to the holiday, travel and leisure scene with Robin Dewhurst ,
Susan Marling and Patrick Stoddart. Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Martin Wainwright presents a personal review of the weekly magazines.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
James Naughtie of The Guardian presents a personal review of a week in the parliamentary life of MPs and peers.
Ned Sherrin , with studio guests and contributions from
Angela Gordon of The Times Robert Elms of The Face and Stephen Fry of No Fixed Abode. Together they pick over some of the week's loose ends and decide which can be left hanging. Including Nigel Farrell with Farrell's Travels, and Making Yourself Totally Perfect - the Mat Coward course in self-improvement.
Additional material from ALISTAIR BEATON
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
SIMON SHAW and CATHIE MAHONEY
(Details on Monday at 10.0am)
Stereo (Details on Monday at 6.30pm)
Lord Young, Ken Livingstone John Pardoe and Ann Burdus
Dear Janet Rosenberg , Dear Mr Kooning by STANLEY EVELING with and Mr Kooning is a middle-aged author, supposedly successful; Janet Rosenberg is a young fan of his. She writes to tell him how much she admires his work. He replies. They correspond. Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN
Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 3)
Brits Abroad
Destination Canada
Why do the British living in Canada still follow the events in Coronation Street so avidly, send home for marmalade and wave the Union Jack during Royal tours? Susan Marling looks at the lives of the British in Canada, who have prospered but never quite left the old country behind.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
(Re-broadcast Wednesday at 11.0am)
Three programmes about man and animals compiled by SUE LIMB
2: Bags of Meat
With readings by roy
KINNEAR TOM WILKINSON and TESSA WORSLEY Producer JAMES RUNCIE (Roy Kinnear is a National Theatre Player)
Irene Thomas talks about three of her favourite humorous characters from fiction. Reader MARTIN JARVIS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast on Tuesday at 9.30pm)
Presented by Derek Jones
Stereo
with CHARLOTTE GREEN including Sports Round-up
Nigel Farrell goes in search of the great British Saturday night out. From early evening cocktails with a peer of the realm to a boisterous bout of female wrestling and a brief stop at a Barbershop Harmony convention. Then on to a gathering of old comrades at a regimental reunion, before ending the night in style with a champagne breakfast at a hunt ball. Advice, too, on alternative entertainment should you be at a loose end tonight. Producer SIMON SHAW
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Music by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Stereo
with Richard Baker
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
By Rod Beacham
At a psychological research unit in Norfolk, Dr Renfrew is conducting experiments into the long-term effects of emotional repression. There are some, however, who believe that his tests can be used towards other and more sinister ends.
Directed by Gerry Jones
Stereo (Re-broadcast Monday at 3.0pm)
Glory to thee my God (BBC HB 414); Nunc Dimittis; Luke 15, w 1-10; The God of love my shepherd is (BBC HB 474). Stereo
A six-part series in which Keith Ward, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion at King's College, London, challenges the popular assumption that Christianity in Britain is spiritually bankrupt and intellectually washed out. Through conversations with leading scientists, philosophers and theologians, he argues that a significant rediscovery of the importance of Christian faith is now taking place.
1: Rationalism in Retreat
The institutional church may be in decline, but has the secular outlook fared any better?
Producer DAVID PEET. BBC Wales
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Presented by Peter Evans
A sketchy look at life with The National Revue Company ARTHUR SMITH. PHIL NICE
MAXINE OSTWALD , BABS SUTTON and ADAM WIDE
Music by STEVE EDIS
Written by ARTHUR smith , PHIL NICE IAN BROWN , JOHN DOWIE and others Producer PAUL MA YHEW. ARCHER Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 2)
followed by an interlude
