with David Bellinger BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Farming and countryside news Producers ALLAN WRIGHT. TIM FINNEY

with Bernard Jackson. Stereo

7.10 Today's Papers

Are farmers destroying the countryside, uprooting hedges and tearing away ancient woodland? Have they turned the grasslands of Britain into wheat-growing prairies?
While Ministry of Agriculture statistics say 'no' and conservationists' research says 'yes', the independent voice of the Institute for Terrestrial Ecology has come up with some answers of its own.
(Revised re-broadcast Monday 7.20pm)

with Rosemary Hartill

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

8.10 Today's Papers

Tony Lewis takes a look at the weekend's sport including
Cricket from Trinidad: news of the first day's play in the Second Test between the West Indies and England.
Cup Football: the quarter finals of the FA Cup.
Davis Cup Tennis: Great
Britain, back in the World Group, are playing Spain at Telford.
And as the Cheltenham Festival approaches, there's the remarkable story of the 'galloping granny' - Irish race-horse owner Charmian Hill. Producer PETER GRIFFITHS

Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to holidays with Robin Dewhurst.
Susan Marling and Patrick Stoddart. Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF

Ian Hislop presents a personal review of the weekly magazines. Producer SUSAN SNAILUM

Peter Kellner. Political Editor of the New Statesman, presents a personal review of a week in the parliamentary life of MPs and peers.
Producer SHEILA COOK

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 and which look like tying themselves, and us, in knots tomorrow.
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

Life and politics abroad from the BBC's worldwide team of foreign correspondents. Producer GUDRUN DALIBOR

(Details on Monday at 10.0am)

Stereo (Details on Monday at 6.30pm)
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Mgr Bruce Kent Max Hastings
David Penhaligon , mp and Jessica Mann

Mountain Ashes by ALAN ENGLAND with Brian Cox as Phil and Paul Copley as Arnold Arnold agrees to go with his friend Phil on a hike to a cave, where they intend to sleep rough. Phil is still mourning the loss of his wife and this journey is of great importance to him. Directed by PETER KING (R)

The Countryside in March The postman on the Netherwitton Route in Northumberland is glad the mornings are lighter now he has to travel 75 miles a day to deliver the Royal Mail. And so are the cockle-pickers in South Wales, because they need to get up very early to reap the harvest of shellfish from the beaches. Eric Simms visits Rutland
Water to see how it has been affected by the recent Arctic weather and a country saddler recovers from the hunting season. This year is National Bat Year, but what's the future for the largest bat colony in Britain?
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas takes a seasonal look at the countryside.
Producer HELEN GILL
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday 11.0am)
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A series of six programmes
Dr Alan Maryon-Davis presents a practical guide to getting the best out of your food. 2: Breakfast's Ready!
After breakfast at 100 mph, courtesy of British Rail. Alan is joined by cookery writer Jackie Applebee to investigate how to get more fibre into our diet as well as snap, crackle and pop! Producer SARAH ROWLANDS BBC Birmingham

Jeanine McMullen talks about three of her favourite characters. Readers ROSALIND AYRES
JOHN FRANKLYN ROBBINS
Producer MARGARET BRADLEY BBC Bristol
(Re-broadcast on Tuesday at 9.30pm)

Presented by Peter France

with PAULINE BUSHNELL including Sports Round-up

Mark Elder , music director of English National Opera, talks to Sue MacGregor about his life and work.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)

The first in a series of four programmes.
The year was 1961. Fred Basnett was an impecunious copy-writer, but that didn't deter him from joining an equally poor friend who owned a vintage
Alvis. Off they set for Moscow, via Norway and the Arctic Circle....
Raising the Wind

Saturday evening table talk Music by GARY HOWARD
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo

by John Wyke
with David March as George III, Avril Clark as Queen Charlotte and Roger Hammond as the Prince Regent

George III is old and decidedly 'odd'. The Royal Princes - all seven of them - have lustily fathered a host of children but unfortunately they're all illegitimate. So a desperate race is on to produce at least one Hanoverian heir to the throne of England.
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3.0pm)

For the beauty of the earth (BBC HB 272); Ave Maria (Simon Lindley ): Luke 1. vv 39-56; Now thank we all our God (BBC HB 277). Stereo

A six-part series in which
Professor Keith Ward argues that the high-water mark of scepticism and unbelief is now past and belief in God is again emerging as an intellectual force to be reckoned with. 4: Morality Without Religion? Permissive morality may have triumphed temporarily, but can society survive without a religious ethic? 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 IAN BROWN. JOHN DOWIE and others Producer PAUL MAYHEW ARCHER Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 2)

followed by an interlude