A weekly review of the agricultural scene presented by Michael Pickstock Producer ALAN WRIGHT BBC Pebble Mill
Hope Sealy in conversation with a special guest about a prayer that has inspired their life and faith.
Presented by John Humphrys and Jenni Murray
7.0, 8.0 Today's News Read by simon VANCE
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.25* Sport with CUFF MORGAN
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day -
In Perspective with ROSEMARY HARTILL , the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent
8.25 The Weeklies With DAVID WALKER
8.35 Yesterday in Parliament Editor JENNY ABRAMSKY
Presented by Cliff Morgan
The International Rugby Union season opens with Scotland defending the Calcutta Cup against England at
Twickenham, while Ireland cross the sea to Cardiff to play Wales.
Down under, England meet The West Indies in the World Series Cup in Brisbane. Producer EMILY MCMAHON
from Jamaica
Many call it the Caribbean island paradise - white sands palm trees, sunshine, rum punches, calypso and reggae music. Many never visit, disturbed by its past reputation of violence. So, what's the real story? Bernard Falk discovers Jamaica for Breakaway. Including part 3 of the Breakaway competition.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
(Competition answers. on a postcard please, to: Breakaway Competition, BBC. London WIA 4WW)
unravelled by Ned Sherrin and the likes of Craig Charles , Carol Thatcher , Stephen Fry and Robert Elms. Plus the Occasional Diary of Mat Coward. Additional material by WOLFGANG PLOCKER
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE and CATHIE MAHONEY
George Jones , Political Editor of the Daily Telegraph, presents a personal review of a parliamentary week. Producer SHELIA COOK
Reflections on life and politics abroad
Producer JULIAN COLES
(Details on Monday at 10.0am)
Stereo (Details on Monday at 6. 30pm)
Lynda Chalker , mp
Dr Tessa Blackstone
Michael Meadowcroft , mp Andrew Neil
The first of 13 programmes From Silence to Sound
'With Blackmail, his first talkie, Hitchcock was introducing the British Cinema to the handling of tension, the stretched nerve, the lingering terror. Murder - but murder with human character. That's what one remembers - why one remembers.'
Dilys Powell begins her History of the British Cinema with the emergence of Alfred Hitchcock in the late 1920s.
Michael Powell , David Lean , Graham Greene ,
Margaret Lockwood and Sidney Gilliat look back on the man and his work.
And cover star Michael Caine reflects on the craft of film acting.
Producer DAVID PEET BBC Wales. Stereo
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by MICHAEL ARDITTI with and
Lady Deborah Coombe -
Carrington opens her home to the public by day but she doesn't expect them to visit her at night.
Directed by RICHARD WORTLEY Stereo
Winter Wonderland
Peter Evans discovers the impact of ice crystals on everything from the ionosphere to ice cream.
Presented by Jeremy Cherfas Tom Eisner , of Cornell
University, tells how ant-lions make their prey more palatable, and Carl Gerhardt , of the University of Missouri, finds that a female frog chooses a mate by taking her own temperature.
with Bill Wallis , David Tate Jon Glover and Sally Grace
With DAVID SYMONDS including Sports Round-up
Saturday evening conversation Music by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER Stereo
The Village Fete by Peter Tinniswood
When Nancy and her brother, sister and father move to the countryside everything goes wrong. They discover a 22 per cent gas leak, their house needs re-wiring and re-roofing. Nancy doesn't mind; she likes organising. But then Winston, the local poacher and handyman, takes over and invites Nancy to the village fete.
Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin BBC Bristol Stereo
Presented by Richard Baker Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
SS-GB by LEN DEIGHTON abridged in 13 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Paul Daneman
3: The Man With One Arm Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
A reading, a hymn and a reflection led by The Rt Rev Jim Thompson. Stereo
Malvem Goes to Vicenza
Last year, a band of English bell-ringers were invited, for the first time, to ring in Italy. On their tour of the bell-towers of Vicenza, they discovered that
Italians ring 'concertos' - sacred tunes composed specially for bells - and, on a visit to Venice, were privileged to ring on the heaviest bells in the world. Presented by Valda Hood Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol
The Great British Enthusiast is alive and well and dotty as ever. Allan Smith visits five groups of assorted devotees, trying to find out what spurs them on.
Coming in off the street doesn't make it any more refined; it's a rough game between the Liverpool Panthers and the Mean Machine.
Written by IAN BROWN and JAMES HENDRIE starring and 3: A Study in Starlets
Chalker of the Yard attempts to solve the mystery of the London Theatreland murders despite the interference of the amateur detective, Melcroft Dupont.
Music by MAX HARRIS
Producer PAUL SPENCER. Stereo
Clive Anderson introduces the very best of London's fringe entertainment, almost live from The Comedy Store, Leicester Square, London
Producer DAN PATTERSON. Stereo
followed by an interlude
