with David Bellinger BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Farming and countryside news Producers ALLAN WRIGHT. TIM FINNEY
with Bernard Jackson. Stereo
7.10 Today's Papers
Last September On Your Farm went to Derbyshire for an auction. Tenant-farmer
Lord Hives was retiring, the herd he and his staff had spent a lifetime breeding was being dispersed, and his workers faced the dole queue. This week: an update on their story. Producer LIZ RIGBEY
(Revised re-broadcast on Easter Monday at 7.20pm)
with Rosemary Hartill
Mike Gilliam asks
Alan Titchmarsh about jobs in the garden this weekend.
8.10 Today's Papers
The programme comes direct from the River Thames, as Oxford and Cambridge prepare for this afternoon's 132nd
University Boat Race. Starting at Putney and ending at
Mortlake, Tony Adamson is joined on the boat by race commentator Brian Johnston , the most famous oarsman in Oxford's recent history. Boris Rankov , and last year's
Cambridge cox.
Henrietta Shaw. And, tide-permitting, there's news of the rest of the weekend's sport.
Producer GORDON TURNBULL
Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to holidays with Robin Dewhurst , Susan Marling and Patrick Stoddart Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF including at 9.0 News
Francis Wheen presents a personal review of the weekly magazines.
Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
Robert Carvel of The London Standard 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. 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
JENNY DANKS and CATHIE MAHONEY
Reflections on life and politics abroad from the BBC's team of foreign correspondents. Producer GUDRUN DALIBOR
(Details on Easter Monday at 10.0am)
Stereo
(Details on Easter Monday at 6.30pm)
Lord Fitt, Lord Chapple
Sir Campbell Fraser and Mary Baker
A View from the Fence by PETER LINEY
Roger sits firmly, but uncomfortably, upon the fence. He can see all the sides to all the important issues, but has no firm views about any of them. Then a visit from Vicky forces him to shift his posture a bit.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN. Stereo (R)
When Australian Prime
Minister Bob Hawke came to power in 1983, he embarked on a bold economic experiment. turning his back on the solutions favoured by Mrs Thatcher and most other
Western leaders. The critics said it wouldn't work. Three years on, Heather Payton finds out who was right - and whether
Britain might benefit from the same treatment.
Producer DANIELLE DONOUGHER A Radio News special report
The Rise and Fall of County Hall
Christabel King walks the miles of corridors in the headquarters of London's local government to find out what it has been like to work in County Hall. As abolition hits the GLC, what are Londoners losing? Not just a building, but a long and rich tradition. Producer JULIAN HALE
(Re-broadcast Wednesday 11.0am)
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. 5: Dinner is Served!
Alan and cookery writer Jackie Applebee sample the delights of haute cuisine - and show how to cut the fat without cutting the flavour.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
Episode 15
'But the tripe inspector's
119 years old with a beard.' Starring
Other parts played by PHIL NICE . PAUL B. DAVIES
CHRISTOPHER SAMSWORTH and CHRISTOPHER BARR with a guest appearance by Peggy Mount as the tripe inspector
Adapted (from the Daily Mirror cartoon) by BILL TIDY . JOHN JUNKIN Producer ALAN NIXON
Stereo (First broadcast on Radio 2)
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? by ALISON MCGHEE The wolf in legend and literature.
Stereo
Did Kevin Watts commit the Archibald Art Gallery robbery or was he framed?
David Lander re-examines this case and comes up with some startling new evidence.
Studio production by STEPHEN FRY with BRENDA BLETHYN , TONY ROBINSON and JACK KLAFF
Dramatic reconstructions by FELICITY MONTAGU, PHIL NICE, ARTHUR SMITH, MARK ARDEN, STEPHEN FROST and PETER ACRE
Research by TONY SARCHET
Editor PAUL MAYHEW-ARCHER (R)
With CHARLOTTE GREEN including Sports Round-up
Ruth and Edmund Frow share their Manchester home with the
10.000 books of the Working-
Class Movement Library they have assembled. Sue MacGregor meets the Frows to talk to them about their lives and work. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester (R)
1961: Fred Basnett , travelling in a vintage Alvis. has finally made it to Russia. And finds himself embroiled in black-market transactions.
The last of four programmes. Psst, Want to Sell Your Shirt, Tovarich?
Saturday evening table talk Music by GARY HOWARD
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
with Richard Baker
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
A Hundred Years Old (El Centenario) by SERAKIN AND JOAQMN ALVAREZ QUINTERO translated by HELEN GRANVILLE BARKER AND HARLEY GRANVILLE BARKER with Like most other families, Papa Juan 's has its share of ups and downs, laughter and tears. But surely nothing must be allowed to spoil the old man's 100th birthday?
Music arranged and played by JOHN BULL
Directed by DAVID JOHNSTON. Stereo
for Holy Saturday, from the Chapel of Lambeth Palace conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Rev and Rt Hon Robert Runcie
My God, I love thee; not because (BBC HB 276); Matthew 27, vv 57-66; The evening of rest
Anthem: And now the Lord to rest is laid (Bach); Love's redeeming work is done. Stereo
A collection of Victorian love letters compiled by Juliet Deane
Read by Martin Jarvis, Anna Massey and Frank Middlemass
'I acknowledge that, previous to yesterday, my eyes had never beheld you; but no sooner did you flash across my path than I felt enchanted, enraptured, and experienced an instantaneous and vivid impression to which I had hitherto been a stranger.'
BBC Scotland
Presented by Peter Evans
'What have the BBC given us?' 'The Bodgers.' 'Exactly.'
John Docherty (sentences) Moray Hunter (sentences) Pete Baikie (scales)
Gordon Kennedy (commas) Producer ALAN NIXON (jerseys) Stereo (R)
followed by an interlude
