Music selected by David Bellinger
BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Farming, food and countryside news, market trends, weather
Producers ALLAN wright .TIM FINNEY

with Bernard Jackson. Stereo

Farmers and other country dwellers tackle the topics which are most on their minds. Producer LIZ RIGBEY
(Revised re-broadcast Mon at 7.20pm)

with Gerald Priestland

Mike Gilliam asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.

Presented by Tony Lewis
Christopher Martin-Jenkins reports from Jamaica on the first day's play in the First Test between England and the West Indies. Tony Adamson investigates the crisis facing the most gifted tennis player of the modern game - John McEnroe. Plus the rest of the weekend's sporting news.
Producer GORDON TURNBULL

A special programme from Brazil
Bernard Falk and Susan Marling span the country, visiting the Amazon in the steamy north, the Afro-Portuguese city of Salvador, and arriving in Rio de Janeiro in time for the fabulous annual carnival.
Producer JENNY MALUNSON DUFF
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Henry Porter presents a personal review of the weekly magazines.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM

Michael Elliott of The Economist presents a personal review of a week in the parliamentary life of MPs and peers. Producer SHEILA COOK

Ned Sherrin with studio guests and regular and irregular 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

Reflections on life and politics abroad from the BBC's worldwide team of foreign correspondents. Producer OLIVIA SEUGMAN

(Details on Monday at 10.0am)

Stereo (Details on Monday at 6.30pm)

The Rt Hon Norman Tebbit , mp The Rt Hon David Steel , mp
The Rt Hon Gerald Kaufman , mp and Ann Leslie

Silent Crying by BILL LYONS
She's a wife and a mother and feels that she has no identity of her own. Her husband makes the decisions and runs her life, so much so that she sees him in every male she encounters, from her own 8-year-old son to a man who picks her up in a bar. Austra
Directed by JANE MORGAN. Stereo (R)

The Cauliflower Trail
Whatever happened to the Breton onion-sellers - those familiar figures wearing berets and riding bicycles laden with onions? Although some still ply their trade in Britain, they have been replaced by a new generation of self-employed lorry drivers carrying mostly cauliflowers and other goods.
Kenneth Hudson joins one such lorry driver, Pierre Martin , on a journey from Roscoffto
Lincolnshire and makes some unusual discoveries about the life of the drivers and the vegetable trade on the way. Producer JUDE HOWELLS
(Re-broadcaston Wednesday 11.0am)

The last of three programmes about man and animals compiled by SUE UMB
A Robin Redbreast in a Cage with readings by ROY KINNEAR
TOM WILKINSON and TESSA WORSLEY Producer JAMES RUNClE (Roy Kinnear is a National Theatre Player)

Rabbi Lionel Blue talks about three of his favourite humorous characters from fiction. Reader BONNIE HURREN
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast on Tuesday at 9. 30pm)

Presented by Peter France

An irreverently critical look back at last week's news Stereo

With CLIVE ROSLIN including Sports Round-up

'What we're trying to do is genuinely, carefully and honestly reconstruct the Globe Theatre of the same materials. the same dimensions, the same physical conditions; and all the scholars and theatre people I know who are interested in Shakespeare believe it is the only way you can fully understand and illuminate these plays.'
Sam Wanamaker , actor, producer and director, talks to Sue MacGregor about his life and work and the project he initiated to rebuild
Shakespeare's theatre on Bankside.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)

Robert Powell reads the heroic story, as told by THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY in his Lays of Ancient Rome Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol

Saturday evening table talk inspired by current public and private preoccupations.
Music by Instant Sunshine
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

Mrs Morgenstern 's Bad Bargains by DAVID BEAN
Thirty ruffians are to be marched across Portugal to the British front lines during the Peninsular War. The 16-year-old officer in charge has the confidence of ignorance, his sergeant the pessimism of an old sweat. Neither of them knows what will happen when the company attracts a camp follower.
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3. 0pm)

The King of love my shepherd is (BBC HB 475); God so loved the world (Goss); Matthew 22, w 15-22; Thou whose almighty word (BBC HB 185). Stereo

Professor Keith Ward continues his six-part series in which he argues that a significant rediscovery of the importance of Christian faith is now taking place.
2: The Phantom Battle
In popular thinking, science and religion are mortal enemies. But some of Britain's top scientists are Christians for whom God is not just a personal belief, but an integral part of their scientific theories. BBC Wales

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 [AN BROWN, JOHN DOWIE and others Producer PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 2)

followed by an interlude