Farmers, bankers, auctioneers and huntsmen tell the agricultural story of Leicestershire.
Presented and produced by Allan Wright BBC Pebble Mill
with Hope Sealy
Presented by Sue MacGregor and Peter Hobday
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by charlotte GREEN
7.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective
With ROSEMARY HARTHL
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING
Presented by Cliff Morgan Cup rugby, indoor athletics and table tennis are among the attractions of this sporting weekend.
Producer GORDON TURNBULL
The holiday and travel programme presented by Bernard Falk.
With reporter Susan Marling and travel expert Nigel Coombs.
Ned Sherrin with the likes of Robert Elms , Craig Charles and Victoria Mather Additional material by ALASTAIR BEATON
Producers LAN GARDHOUSE CATHIE MAHONEY and JANET ARKWRIGHT
Presented by Peter Jenkins , Associate Editor of the Independent.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
Producer HOWARD ROGERS
(Re-broadcast Monday at 10.00am)
by DAVE COHEN and PETE SINCLAIR Willie Rushton presents a loyal toast to the traditions that made Britain what it is today. 3: The Great Game
It's been called the most exciting sport in the world - an action-packed, nail-biting, life and death drama of thrills and spills. But enough about motor racing - let's hear it for cricket. With Steven Frost , Garard Green Paula Hannis , Jonathan Kydd and Sarah Thomas
Producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo (Re-broadcast on Monday at 6. 30pm)
Edwina Currie , mp Joan Lestor , mp
Roger Graef and Des Wilson tackle the issues raised in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. Chairman John Humphrys
Kevin Mulhearn and guests discover common threads in Radio 4's magazine programmes.
Producer SUSAN DENNY
by JOHN HALL with Colonel Sam Mellors disputes the right of the Crowe Sand and Gravel Co to drive lorries over his beloved medieval bridge, and this leads him to refight old battles, relive old glories.... Directed by BRIAN MILLER BBC BristoL Stereo
In the last programme of the series Ray Smith tells
Martyn Williams about the hidden perils of playing tough roles on TV - such as Spikings, the hard-nosed cop in Dempsey and Makepeace.
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS
(First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales)
A satirical view of the week's news with Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sally Grace and Royce Mills
With EUGENE FRASER including Sports Round-up
Omnibus edition
Aarthi by MEERA SYAL With GINNIE HOLE
Directed by MARILYN IMRIE. Stereo
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
by Diana Griffiths
This wicked comedy is set in pre-history when the balance of power between the sexes was altogether different. A wonderful time, when the women ruled the roost with a rod of iron. Then Tom the Thinker asks a question: 'Are the men playing a part in the continuation of the species?' Blasphemy!
BBC Manchester
(Stereo)
Presented by Richard Baker Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
Led by CoUn Semper Stereo
The Domestic Mistake
It clears the brain, this business of washing-up, and is more useful than a game of liver-bestirring golf....
GENTLEMAN WITH A DUSTER, 1912
Christina Hardyment reflects on 400 years of housekeeping manuals, in search of an ideal of domesticity that works today. Readers DIANA OLLSON and JOHN ROWE
Producer ELIZABETH BURKE
The second Baron Colwyn leads a busy life. His days are divided between his successful dental practice and the House of Lords; but at night he plays the trumpet m his own society dance band. Margaret Howard snatched some moments with him between engagements in this last programme of the series.
Producer GRAHAM TAYAR
present
Beyond the Ultrasilence
A neo-Lermontovian radio piece examining the critical pain of being, and the unbearable darkness of the soul's primal torment.
Lots of big fun guaranteed. Written and presented by Paul Merton and John Irwin with Neil Mullarkey Josie Lawrence and Tony Hawks and featuring Julian Clary Song by TONY HAWKS
Additional material by the cast
Produced to conform with current British Big Fun standards by DAVID TYLER. Stereo
Another in the series of the improvisation show with audience participation.
This week Stephen Fry and John Sessions are joined in the mire by Griff Rhys Jones and songwriter/impressionist Kate Robbins, for another wallow through the world of literary styles, TV theme tunes and film genres.
Clive Anderson, in the Chair, looks on aghast.
More absorbing than kitchen roll....
JOURNAL OF DOMESTIC PAPER STUDIES
Devised and compiled by MARK LEVESON with the producer DAN PATTERSON. Stereo
followed by an interlude