The Farming Week goes to Bedfordshire, which is known as London's kitchen garden. Allan Wright visits market gardeners as well as traditional farmers during his tour of the county.
(BBC Pebble Mill)
with Hope Sealy
Presented by Peter Hobday and Chris Lowe
7.00,8.00 Today's News
Read by Peter Donaldson
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 Hartill, the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
Presented by Cliff Morgan
The final Saturday of Rugby Union's Five Nations Championship. England are at home to Ireland while Wales do battle with France at Cardiff.
In Auckland, England's cricketers take on New Zealand in the final One-Day
International.
The holiday and travel programme presented by Bernard Falk with reporter Susan Marling and travel expert Nigel Coombs.
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Ned Sherrin with the likes of Robert Elms, Craig Charles and Victoria Mather
with Robin Oakley, Political Editor of the Times.
(Details on Monday at 10. 00am)
Starring Peter Jones as the Book
with Simon Jones as Arthur Dent, Geoffrey McGivern as Ford Prefect
and Bill Wallis as Prosser and Vogon Captain, Jo Kendall as Lady Cynthia Fitzmelon, David Gooderson as Barman
(Stereo) (R)
(Hear This! page 14)
Peter Lilley, MP, The Rt Hon Shirley Williams, Gordon Brown, MP, Trevor Clay.
Is the country making the most of the over-60s? Veteran broadcaster Frank Gillard sets the scene for a week of programmes on Radio 4.
With him, and almost 60 years younger, is Karen Mee of the Radio 4 Generation. Together they set out to explore, and perhaps explode, some of the myths of age.
A play by David Caute.
Ben Brandt is a political prisoner in South Africa.
His exiled white liberal family have been trying to get him released for 23 years.
(Stereo)
Sue MacGregor meets J.L. Carr, novelist, sculptor and publisher.
with Bill Wallis , David Tate Sally Grace and Royce Mills
With David Symonds
including Sports Round-Up
by Ginnie Hole.
Omnibus edition.
(Stereo)
Music by Instant Sunshine.
(Stereo)
by Jo Sheffield
In the hot summer of 1931 in London, a pungent smell emanating from the left-luggage office of a major London terminus is the first indication that a murder has been committed.
BBC Bristol. Stereo
(Re-broadcast on Monday at 3. 00pm)
with Richard Baker
(Stereo)
led by Frank Topping. Stereo
Norah Hartley remembers her brother, the novelist L.P. Hartley, with extracts from his novel "The Shrimp and the Anemone", read by Bernard Hepton, and from their mother's letters, read by Margaret Ward.
(Stereo) (Feature: page 15)
by Kathleen Tudor, from Canada
Read by Patricia Northcott
The last in a series of eight international short stories.
Freda is the kind of child who is always in some kind of trouble.... and she's dead keen to keep pace with the older kids.
(BBC Wales)
(First broadcast on BBC World Service)
It's time once again to join compere Clive Anderson as he fishes out some of the best new stand-up comedy from the murky depths of the Comedy Store, Leicester Square, London.
Stereo
Stereo (Details on Monday at 6.30pm)
