Music selected by Michael Ford BBC Birmingham. Stereo

Farming and countryside news Producers ALLAN WRIGHT. TIM FINNEY

with Bernard Jackson. Stereo

7.10 Today's Papers

Farmers are tense, tempers short, and shepherds taciturn. The kitchen is full of orphans. It must be lambing time!
The On Your Farm team visit the Gibsons, of Lanchester near Durham, who make lambing even more hectic by inviting the public in to watch. Producer LIZ RIGBEY
(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

Presented by Lord Oaksey It could be quite a day on Merseyside. There's the drama and excitement of the Seagram Grand National at Aintree; and Liverpool and Everton are in FA Cup semi-final action. Lord Oaksey marks your card for the National as he walks the course with owners, trainers and jockeys, and there's hopefully a tip straight from the horse's mouth. He also sets the scene for those Cup ties at Villa Park and White Hart Lane.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON

Bernard Falk presents a practical guide to holidays with Nigel Coombs ,
Susan Marling and Patrick Stoddart. Producer JENNY MALUNSON DUFF including at 9.0 News

with Auriol Stevens Producer SUSAN SNAILUM

What's Left of the Left?
Following the Socialists' defeat in the French elections, Sweden is now the only country with a left-of-centre government in western and northern
Europe. What is the future for Democratic Socialism in its traditional industrial heartland? After the old economic recipes seem to have failed, what does the Left have to do to win back electoral majorities?
Jonathan Steele talks to politicians from the Labour
Party and other Socialist parties in Europe.
Producer HARRY SCHNEIDER

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. 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

(Details on Monday at 10.0 am)

Stereo (Details on Monday at 6.30pm)

Marcus Fox , mp
Austin Mitchell , mp
Roland Long , Claire Brooks

The Storytellers
The first of seven dramatised stories
Candide by voltaire translated and adapted by JONATHAN MYERSON
It's a well-known fact that we live in the best of all possible worlds. This, at any rate, remains the unshakeable conviction of Dr Pangloss, a tutor in metaphysicotheologicocosmonigology. whose experience of life might well have led a less charitable man to think differently. So who is his pupil, Candide, to doubt the great man's wisdom?
King of Eldorado/Dervish
Directed by GORDON HOUSE. Stereo
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)

The Black Othello
A portrait of Ira Aldridge
(Details on Wednesday at 11.0am)

The last of six programmes.
Dr Alan Maryon-Davis presents a practical guide to getting the best out of your food. A Question of Balance
Alan checks the shopping basket and decodes those E numbers; and, with cookery writer Jackie Applebee , explains how healthy eating is all a question of balance. Producer SARAH ROWLANDS

Episode 16
'I think my wedding gown will be workhouse grey.... with a matching bouquet of stinkwort.'
Other parts played by GARETH HALE , FELICITY MONTAGU
PHILNICE.PAULB. DAVIES and RICHARD PLATT
Adapted (from the Daily Mirror cartoon) by BILL TIDY. JOHN JUNKIN Producer ALAN NIXON
(First broadcast on Radio 2)

Presented by Derek Jones Stereo

with PAULINE BUSHNELL including Sports Round-up

Saturday evening table talk Music by SUE CASSON Producer
MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

by Alan Garner.
Dramatised by David Wade

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen is lost! Without it the forces of evil will rule the land. How was it lost and where is it? Two children hold the key to the mystery....

BBC Manchester
(Stereo)
(Robin Bailey is a National Theatre Player)
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with Richard Baker
Producer JANE bevan. Stereo

Murder, mystery, suspense ... Paul Daneman reads A Judgement in Stone by RUTH RENDELL , abridged in six parts by DONALD BANCROFT 1: The New Housekeeper at Lowfield Hall
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol

That Eastertide with joy was bright (BBC HB 111); Prevent us 0 Lord (Harris); John 20, vv 19-29; Ye choirs of new
Jerusalem (BBC HB 116). Stereo

Five studies in talent and perversity
1: Baron Corvo - Fr Rolfe
'I cultivate the gentle art of making enemies. A friend is necessary - one friend; but an enemy is more necessary. An enemy keeps one alert.'
Frederidk Rolfe managed to turn most of his friends and would-be helpers into implacable enemies. He was capable of immense and sustained malevolence. He spent his last years in Venice, living in poverty and squalor, writing pornography, and engaging in an exhibitionist and sexually dissolute existence.
Ane yet this priest manque was a dedicated artist, a writer of near genius. Alec McCowen reads from his works, and Julian Symons (whose brother wrote Questfor Corva), Donald Weeks and Peter Luke (who dramatised Rolfe's novel
Hadrian VII) help
Margaret Howard trace the tragic life of this greatly talented, deeply flawed man.
Producer GRAHAM TAYAR
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Stereo (Details on Friday at 12.27pm)

followed by an interlude