Music selected by David Bellinger
BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Producers ALLAN WRIGHT , TIM FINNEY
with Bernard Jackson. Stereo
7.10 Today's Papers
The pig used to be a common sight in farmyards all over
Britain. Now, highly-bred and subject to constant genetic manipulation, he's likely to be found tucked away in a huge, sanitised purpose-built complex. On Your Farm examines the history of the British pig, his character and intelligence and his welfare under modern farming systems. Producer LIZ RIGBEY
with Johnston McKay
Mike Gilliam asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.
8.10 Today's Papers
Presented by Tony Lewis , with one eye on the fluctuating fortunes of England's cricketers in the West Indies and the other on the final scheduled day of rugby's Five Nations
Championship. Will the weather be kind?
Producer PETER GRIFFTHS
Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to holidays with Robin Dewhurst , Susan Marling and Patrick Stoddart. Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
Alan Rusbridger 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. Including Nigel Farrell with Farrell's Travels and Making Yourself Totally Perfect - the Mat Coward course in self-improvement.
Additional material from
ALIST AIR REA TON
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
SIMON SHAW and CATHIE MAHONEY
Reflections on life and politics abroad
Producer GUDRUN DALIBOR
(Details on Monday at 10.0am)
Stereo (Details on Monday at 6.30pm)
Viscount Etienne Davignon Norman Lamont. mp
The Rt Hon Tony Benn , mp and Sue Slipman
Second Opinion by JOHN 1'.
ROONEY Dr Claire believes in 'treating the whole person' and has the chance to do so now that she has taken over her dead father's practice in London. But the old Irishman's voice still haunts her, demanding that she give up her new-fangled English approach to medicine. Can
Claire shake off his oppressive influence?
Directed by PETER KAVANAGH BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo
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The True Heart A portrait of Sylvia Townsend Warner
Six programmes in which
Dr Alan Maryon-Davis presents a practical guide to getting the best out of your food, especially the best of health. 3: Gone to Lunch
Alan lifts the lid off the British lunch-box to find more than a pinch of salt, and cookery writer Jackie Applebee demonstrates tasty ways of cutting down. Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
This introductory episode recalls the early years of the Fosdyke family in their climb from the depths of Insanitary Cottages, Griddlesbury, to ownership of a vast tripe empire, despite the evil machinations of Roger Ditchley. A chance to re-live the first 13 episodes
Adapted by BILL TIDY and JOHN JUNKIN
(from the Daily Mirror cartoon)
Near-perfect - the best since 'Hitch-Hiker's' (PUNCH)
David Streeter and Glyn Jones join Peter France on a culinary shopping spree.
With SUSAN RAE including Sports Round-up
Dr Tony O'Reilly. President and Chief Executive of the international H. J. Heinz
Company, is an Irishman whose first fame was as a rugby international. Sue MacGregor talks to him in Pittsburgh about his life and work.
Producer GILLIANHUSH BBC Manchester (R)
In 1961. Fred Basnett and a friend devised a hare-brained scheme to drive in a vintage Alvis to Moscow via
Scandinavia and the Arctic Circle. Having borrowed money from the unlikely source of their bank manager, they have now reached Norway.
Second of four programmes Guys and Trolls
Saturday evening table talk inspired by current public and private preoccupations Music by GARY HOWARD
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. Stereo
The Back of the Tiger by JACK GERSON
Dallas 1963. In a downtown bar Alec McBride learns the truth about the President's murder. From then on he is a marked man.
Directed by PETER KING. Stereo
Dear Lord and Father of mankind (BBCHB 351). Set me as a seal (Walton); Mark 10. vv 32-45: When I survey the wondrous cross (BBC HB 97) Stereo
A six-part series in which
Professor Keith Ward examines the intellectual climate in contemporary Britain and discovers that it is more sympathetic to Christian belief than it has been for many years. 5: Whatever Happened to Jesus?Biblical scholarship is undergoing a revolution which tends to affirm rather than undermine the historical basis of Christianity. 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 EDlS Written by ARTHUR SMITH. PHIL NICE IAN BROWN , JOHN DOWIEand others Producer PAUL. MAYHEW ARCHER Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 2)
followed by an interlude
