BBC Pebble Mill. Stereo
Producers TIM FINNEY , REBECCA POW
with Bernard Jackson
7.10 Today's Papers
The country comes to town each year for The Royal Smithfield
Show. It's a blend of what's best in stocksmanship and what's new in farm machinery. By way of a preview, Steve Howe visits the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering. Producer ALLAN WRIGHT
(Revised re-broadcast Monday 7.20pm)
with Rosemary Hartill
Mike Gilliam talks to Alan Titchmarsh.
8.10 Today's Papers (Broadcastat 7.10am)
Presented by Cliff Morgan England's cricketers are in Perth for the Second Test against Australia, with The
Ashes at stake. Reports from the ground on the second day's play and also a look at the sporting news nearer home.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON
Radio 4's travel and leisure programme presented by Bernard Falk with Susan Marling ,
Nigel Coombs and Patrick Stoddart. Producer HELEN ROBSON
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David Walker presents a personal review of the weekly magazines.
Producer JOY HATWOOD
Julia Langdon , Political Editor of the Mirror, presents a personal review of a week in the parliamentary life of MPs and peers.
Producer SHEILA COOK
with Ned Sherrin , and the likes of Victoria Mather, Stephen Fry and Craig Charles.
Including Nigel Farrell with Farrell's Travels and the Occasional Diary of Mat Coward Additional material from
JAMES HENDRIE andIAN BROWN Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY
Producer ZAREER MASANI
(Details on Monday at 10.0am)
Stereo
(Details on Monday 6. 30pm)
TheRtHon
Michael Heseltine , mf Bryan Gould , mp Roger Helmer
Zerbanoo Gifford
Rookery Nook adapted by PETER KING from the novel and stage farce by BEN TRAVERS
With the confetti hardly brushed from his tail coat and his new wife nursing his new mother-in-law, Gerald Popkiss motors to Chumpton where his new sister-in-law can keep her eye on him. The question is - can he explain the beautiful, barefoot, pyjama-clad girl sleeping in his bed ...
Music composed and played by ED WELCH (piano) with RON ASPERY Directed by PETER KING. Stereo (R)
BBC Correspondents report from around the world
Christopher Dunkley airs your comments and pursues your complaints and queries about the BBC.
Four programmes looking at film versions of famous novels 2: Rebecca
A celebrated dream taking us, and the heroine, back to Manderley, is the shared beginning of both
Alfred Hitchcock 's film of Rebecca and Daphne du Maurier's novel. But what follows is entirely different. Christopher Cook considers these differences, with soundtrack illustrations and readings from the book by Joanna David.
Producer WENDY CLAY (R)
With HARRIET CASS including Sports Round-up
Saturday evening conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations
(Stereo)
(Instant Sunshine star in their own show on Wednesday 6.30 pm)
by LUDVIG HOLBERG (1684-1754) freely adapted by HECTOR MACMILLAN from the translation by OSCAR JAMES CAMPBELL with 'Your Lordship has had a commotion in the blood which has set the brain in such a whirl that your Lordship imagines himself to be a peasant ... Have the musicians play the music he most likes to hear.'
Music by ROBERT PETTIGREW and ROBERT HANDLEIGH
Directed by STEWART CONN BBC Scotland. Stereo
Romance and murder in the world of beetles.
Compiled by KATE TIFFIN Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBCBristol
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 4. 15pm)
Richard Baker presents a special 400th edition of the programme.
Producer JUDITH ROLES. Stereo
Deep and Crisp and Even by PETER TURNBULL , abridged in six parts by ANDREW SIMPSON Read by Bill Paterson 4: The Fifth Murder
Producer PAMELA HOWE. BBCBristol
The Lord is king (BBC HB 26); Rejoice in the Lord alway;
Micah 4, vv 1-5; Hark the glad sound (BBC HB 490). Stereo
The third of six programmes in which a team of specialist reporters 'sound out' the religious and moral implications of major current issues.
Researcher AMANDA HANCOX Producer EDWARD LUCAS
Series editor BEVERLEY MCAINSH
Presented by Peter Evans
Part 2
(Details on Friday at 12.27pm)
followed by an interlude