BBC Birmingham. Stereo
Producers TIM FINNEY , REBECCA POW
with Bernard Jackson
This week: Salmon Farming Presented and produced by Allan Wright
(Revised re-broadcast Monday 7.20pm)
with John Harriott
Mike Gilliam talks with Alan Titchmarsh
8.10 Today's Papers
Tony Adamson meets some of the competitors and the personalities from the XIII Commonwealth Games.
There's also a report from Lord's where ENGLAND play NEW ZEALAND in the First Cornhill Test.
Producer GORDON TURNBULL
The antidote to panel games starring, in alphabetical order, Abeiklmooorrt adn Hillnorstuwy sv Aadeeeggmnrr adn Hijjknnnou
Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton, Colin Sell (piano)
Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Wednesday at 12.27pm)
by Anthony Smith (R)
Presented by David Bradbury Producer JENNY DANKS
Presented by George Jones , Political Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph 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 , who continues his Great Bus
Journeys of Our Time, and the Occasional Diary of Mat Coward Additional material by AUSTAIR BEATON
Producers LAN GARDHOUSE
SIMON SHAW and CATHIE MAHONEY
Producer MARGARET HILL
(Details on Monday at 10.0 am)
Martyn Young joins Richard Ingrams of Private Eye, Gay Search joins Alan Coren of Punch, and Barry Took is once more in the chair.
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 6.30pm)
Tom Salmon sets out on the first of six journeys through Devon. He follows the river Torridge to Bideford then crosses the sea to Lundy.
Stereo
Voyages by TED MOORE
Lat- February 1939, a small town on the north-east coast of England. Lizzie Scott, three months pregnant and widowed eight hours, joins her relatives, all unsettled by the death and the talk of war.
Directed by TONY CUFF BBC Manchester. Stereo
Ray Boston traces the link between the contemporary American investigative journalist and a group of 'foreign liars' who left Britain for the USA in the 1790s.
Continuing his enquiries into the crafts of the keeper,
Keith Allan travels to the Outer Hebrides to find
Jude Whitehouse , housekeeper in a sporting lodge on the Isle of Lewis.
Of Sex and Styrofoam Boxes Peter France reports on Operation Green Turtle.
Satirical sketches on the week's news
With CHARLOTTE GREEN including Sports Round-up
Music by PETER SKELLERN
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
by James Follett
On a Scout outing in the mid-50s author James Follett was pushed into a gorse bush. His eyes were scratched and infected, and from the age of 14 until a successful operation four years later, he was blind.
Although the characters are fictional, the play is based upon his experiences.
BBC Bristol
(Stereo)
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3.0pm)
Presented by Richard Baker Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
A Very Private Enterprise by ELIZABETH IRONSIDE , abridged in seven parts by BRIAN GEAR Read by Lewis Fiander
5: The Guardian of the Gold
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBC Bristol
Father, 0 hear us (BBC HB 260); Daniel 9, vv 1-11; Turn thy face from my sins (Attwood); Father of heaven, whose love profound (BBC HB 290). Stereo
Brian Redhead continues his biblical route-march from Eden to Armageddon.
4: The Path to Kingship
This week he examines the Bible's most startling U-turn as the followers of Moses the kingbreaker choose a royal road to Jerusalem. Is there a message behind Samson's unwanted haircut and Sisera's tent-peg-shattered head? Have the Philistines been the victims of a smear campaign? And why has the kingship of a shepherd king with good aim and sometimes weak morals provided a royal ideal which still survives today? Readers BERNARD JACKSON
DAVID GARTH. TESSA WORSLEY Researcher MICHAEL WAKELIN Producer FRANCES GUMLEY
(Re-broadcast Thursday 10.0am LW)
Presented by Peter Evans
Stereo (Details on Friday at 12.27pm)
followed by an interlude
