goes to Somerset, where the majority of the county's 7,000 farmers have been attending the Bath and West Show. The
Somerset farm is still very much a family unit and the average size, at 112 acres, is below the national average.
Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Pebble Mill

with Hope Sealy

Presented by Peter Hobday and Jennie Bond
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by CHARLOTTE GREEN
7.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVTLE
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective Editor PHILIP HARDING

Britain's athletes begin an Olympic season at the HFC UK Athletics Championships in Derby. England's cricketers will be hoping to fend off the West Indian pace attack at Trent
Bridge, while in Paris the ladies' tournament at the French Open Tennis Championships is today's highlight.
Cliff Morgan reports on these and other sporting stories. Producer CHARLES RUNCIE

Presented by Bernard Falk with travel expert Nigel Coombs Producer HELEN ROBSON

with Ned Sherrin andthelikesof Stephen Fry , Carol Thatcher and Emma Freud
Plus Victor Lewis Smith 's slices from a York ham. Additional material by PETE SINCLAIR and STEVE PUNT Additional additional material from PAUL SPARKS
Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
CATHIE MAHONEY , KENTON ALLEN

A Week in the Dail
Robert Carvel takes a personal look at the Irish Parliament in Dublin and finds out what is currently on the minds of the Republic's legislators. Producer SHEILA COOK

Producer HOWARD ROGERS

Presented by Louise Botting

Seven days which shook the world - reduced to farce by the combined talents of Richard Ingrams , Alan Coren and Barry Took
This week's guests:
Victoria Mather of the Daily Telegraph and the BBC's own Frances Coverdale
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON with producer HARRY THOMPSON. Stereo

The Rt Hon Barbara Castle, MEP David Willetts , Polly Toynbee and Sir George Young , mp

Whether it's screaming, screeching, or sensually stroking, the saxophone has sex appeal - and selling power. Discover its potency in the programme that analyses modern icons.
Presented by Sarah Dunant Producer JANICE HADLOW

The children's book programme introduced by Penelope Lively

by EDUARDO DE FILIPPO translated and adapted by CARLO ARDITO , with Naples. 1946: former prostitute Filumena Marturano decides it is time she married the unwilling Domenico Soriano , the man with whom she has been living for 25 years.

Four conversations in which
Jenny Cuffe talks to people who find themselves outside the world to which they once belonged. 3: Sobzan Beckford

with David Tate. Sally Grace
Kerry Shale and Jonathan Kydd

With PETER JEFFERSON including Sports Round-Up

Omnibus edition
Picking Up Your Options by LEIGH JACKSON
Directed by MARILYN IMRIE. Stereo

Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo

I Do Not Like Thee, Dr Fell
A comedy by BERNARD FARRELL and Five people are put together in a sealed room for a day-long encounter-group therapy session: they will search together for inner knowledge of themselves and of others. That is the theory, but the mysterious Joe Fell has different and rather unpleasant ideas about the practice....
Directed by JEREMY HOWE
BBC Northern Ireland. Stereo

with Richard Baker
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo

led by Richard Harries. Stereo

Superman: the Serial
As a prelude to this week's
Radio 4 drama-documentary celebrating Superman's 50th anniversary, Dick Vosburgh invites you to enjoy a rare recording of one of the original Adventures of Superman - the 1940s radio serial which thrilled a generation of Americans. Producer DIRK MAGGS
('Superman on Trial' tomorrow at
4.00pmLW)
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In a series of six programmes David Bean travels in the footsteps of George Borrow , who in 1837 began selling Protestant Bibles in Catholic Spain. 3: Galicia
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester

The sixth and last in the present series of the fragrance-free show with no additives or artificial colours. As ever the show is presented by Stephen Fry with regulars Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent and Emma Thompson
Returning guest Phyllida Law
Written by STEPHEN FRY
Additional material by IAN BROWN and JAMES HENDRIE
Producer DAN PATTERSON. Stereo

It's late, it's live and there's even a sneak preview of the Sunday papers. Will baldness be finally eliminated?
Will you be able to buy an all-in-one decorating smock and answerphone? Is there an end to car-seat dog-hair misery? Tune in and find out. Starring Steve Punt ,
Hugh Dennis , Flip Webster and Guy Jackson
Songs and music by GUY JACKSON Written by STEVE PUNT , with additional material by HUGH DENNIS GUY JACKSON. FLIP WEBSTER and producer DAVID TYLER. Stereo