goes to Northumberland, where hill-lambing is just getting under way.
Allan Wright 's guide to the county is Tom Southern, a beef and sheep farmer from Hexham. BBC Pebble Mill
with Hope Sealy
Presented by John Humphrys and Peter Hobday
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective
With ROSEMARY HARTILL Editor PHILIP HARDING
Join Cliff Morgan at Aintree as he samples the Grand National fervour. Who knows, perhaps he'll pick up a tip or two straight from the horse's mouth. Producer JOANNE WATSON
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The holiday programme presented by Bernard Falk with reporter Dilly Barlow and travel expert Nigel Coombs Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
with Ned Sherrin and the likes of Stephen Fry , Carol Thatcher and Emma Freud , plus more of Victor Lewis Smith 's slices from a York ham. Additional material by ALISTAIR BEATON. PAUL SPARKS Producers LAN
GARDHOUSE CATHIE MAHONEY , JAN ARKWRIGHT
How far has Mrs Thatcher changed the philosophy of the Conservative Party? Is there now any Tory alternative to Thatcherism?
Robin Oakley , Political Editor of the Times, talks to leading Tories about the nature of modern Conservatism. Producer MARGARET HILL
Producer HOWARD ROGERS
A Question of Money from Bournemouth (Part 1)
starring
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Written by DOUGLAS ADAMS Producer GEOFFREY PERKINS Stereo (R)
The Rt Hon Cecil Parkinson , mp The Rt Hon Tony Benn , mp Ann Leslie and Jonathon Porritt
with Kevin Mulhern and guests Producer SUSAN DENNY
Penelope Lively talks to
Russell Hoban , author of more than 50 books for children.
by ELLEN DRYDEN with and A story of the Protestant women imprisoned in a tower in the Carmargue in the 18th century. Directed by NED CHAILLET Stereo (R)
Sue MacGregor meets Dame Alicia Markova.
with Bill Wallis , David Tate and Sally Grace
With BRIAN PERKINS including Sports Round-Up
Omnibus edition
Bank Holiday Blues by MIKE WALKER
Directed by A. J. QUINN. Stereo
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
The Slip by P. CARROLL and B. WASSERMAN with What else is there for an unemployed sociologist to do on a Saturday afternoon but to go to the pub and have a little flutter on the horses on the way home?
Directed by JANET WHITAKER. Stereo (Re-broadcast on Monday at 3. OOpm)
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Richard Baker presents a mid-evening miscellany of words and music.
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
A reading, a hymn and a reflection led by Eddie Neale Stereo
Tinniswood's Grand National The Grand National: the Blue Riband of steeplechasing. A sporting tradition with a colourful yet often controversial history - the mysterious tumble of the royal mount in 1956; the intriguing relationship between Aintree and the BBC's top brass.
Peter Tinniswood investigates these and other stories in a unique report on the National, using archive recordings made available for the first time by the BBC's Academy of Sports Commentators, and with dramatic reconstructions by Liz Goulding and Martin Jarvis Producer ANDREW PARFITT
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by Anthony Smith
from the Comedy Store,
Leicester Square, London, compered by Dave Cohen.
Stereo (Details on Monday at 6.30pm)
