A selection of music. BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Producers TIM FINNEY. REBECCA POW
with Bernard Jackson
7.10 Today's Papers
This week: the profitability of free-range eggs; the role of an agricultural society outside the annual show; and the value of agricultural training at a school in Somerset. Presented and produced by Allan Wright
(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 Gerald Williams Brands Hatch, deep in the garden of England, plays host to tomorrow's British Grand Prix while KENT and MIDDLESEX share pole position for today's Benson and Hedges Cup Final. Producer PETER GRIFFITHS
Bernard Falk presents Radio 4's holiday guide with Nigel Coombs , Susan Marling and Patrick Stoddart. Producer HELEN ROBSON
Ian Hislop assesses the weekly magazines. Producer JENNY DANKS
James Naughtie , Chief Political Correspondent of The Guardian, presents a personal review. Producer SHEILA COOK
unravelled, dangled or tied up by Ned Sherrin and the likes of Robert Elms, Victoria Mather and Stephen Fry.
Plus Nigel Farrell 's Great Bus Journeys of Our Time and Mat Coward's Occasional Diary Additional material by ALISTAIR BEATON
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
SIMON SHAW and CATHIE MAHONEY
Reflections on life and politics abroad
Producer MARGARET HILL
(Details on Monday at 10.0am)
Stereo (Details on Monday & 30pm)
Angela Rumbold , mp
Max Hastings , John Cousins Paul Foot
by MAX frisch dramatised by JANE BEESON with Faber distrusts emotions and believes only in the calculable, but when his plane crashlands in the Mexican desert he experiences a series of coincidences....
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN
In the first of six programmes
Keith Allan goes to Hampshire to meet Mick Lunn , river keeper.
Study in Stone
Stanley Wood and Tim Smithson lead Mike Scott to the site of an astonishing discovery.
With DAVID SYMONDS including Sports Round-up
Music by PETER SKELLERN
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
Remaining Strangers by BARBARA ANN VILLIERS
Peculiar Myra, living at home in Peckham, is a stranger to her awful dad. Then, by chance, she meets 'Home Counties' Helen, dull but sophisticated, and having a miserable time with her husband. So Myra plots a sharp revenge against men.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY
Stereo
with Richard Baker
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
A Very Private Enterprise by ELIZABETH IRONSIDE , abridged in seven parts by BRIAN GEAR Read by Lewis Fiander 3: A Very Powerful Man
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
Come, thou Holy Spirit, come (BBC HB 152); God is a spirit (Sterndale Bennett);
I Corinthians 12, vv 4-13;
For the fruits of his creation (BP 18). Stereo
Brian Redhead continues his investigation of the world's most misquoted book. Pride ana Patriarchs
In the second of this 13-part series, he falls in step with Abraham, a Middle Bronze Age nomad chief who told lies inefficiently, was henpecked by his wife, entertained angels, and struck a bargain with God that is still a matter of political controversy today.
But who was Abraham? Did he really travel 1,300 miles? Why did he pretend his wife was his sister? Was he really the inventor of monotheism, and the builder of the sacred Muslim Q'aba at Mecca? Was he one man or a composite folk tale? Readers DAVID GARTH ,
BERNARD JACKSON. TESSA WORSLEY. MICHAEL WAKELIN and jo wild
Researcher MICHAEL WAKELIN Producer FRANCES GUMLEY
Presented by Peter Evans
Stereo (Details on Friday at 12.27pm)
followed by an interlude
