goes to Aberdeenshire, where farmers traditionally fattened beef cattle and sheep. High
Common Market prices tempted many to switch to grain, but two disastrous harvests and a sharp decline in land values have brought financial ruin to many. Presented and produced by Allan Wright. BBC Pebble Mill
with Hope Sealy
Presented by Peter Hobday and John Humphrys
7.00,8.00 Today's News Read by EUGENE FRASER
7.25* Sport
With CHARLES COLVILE
7.30,8.30 News Summary
7.40*, 8.47* Today's Papers
7.45 In Perspective
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament Editor PHILIP HARDING
The question on every golfer's lips - can Sandy Lyle win the US Open and go halfway to the sports 'grand slam'?
Cliff Morgan has the overnight news from Boston, as well as reflections on a busy sporting weekend.
Producer CHARLES RUNCIE
The holiday and travel programme presented by Bernard Falk. Travel expert Nigel Coombs joins Bernard every Saturday morning to keep you in touch with the latest holiday problems and news.
Producer JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
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Ned Sherrin , live studio guests and regular and irregular contributions from the likes of Robert Elms, Craig Charles and Victoria Mather Additional material by STEVE PUNT and PETE SINCLAIR Producers IAN GARDHOUSE
CATHIE MAHONEY , KENTON ALLEN
Peter Riddell , Political Editor of the Financial Times, presents a personal view of a week in the life of MPs and peers.
Producer EMILY BUCHANAN
Reflections on life and politics abroad
Producer HOWARD ROGERS
(Re-broadcast Monday 10. 00am)
Experience the excitement of world events reported in your very living room.... or if you can't wait 35 minutes, turn on now and listen to
Richard Ingrams , Ian Hislop , Susannah Simons and Alan Coren failing to answer a lot of questions about the news. In the Chair, as usual, is Barry Took.
Written and compiled by JOHN LANGDON and the producer HARRY THOMPSON Stereo
The Rt Hon Sir Rhodes Boyson , mp Frank Dobson , mp
Charles Kennedy , mp Jean Denton
The poster is cheap, cheerful and disposable. But is it art? The programme that probes beneath the surface uncovers the secret history of 1,000 bedsits.
Presenter Sarah Dunant Producer JANICE HADLOW
The children's book programme.
Introduced by Penelope Lively from Boston, where the writers Jane Langton and Betty Levin discuss children's books and publishing in America.
by STEPHEN DUNSTONE with Steve Hodson as Richard Victoria Carling as Caroline and Susannah Fellows as Jody A young girl's ex-fiance discovers that she has become a member of a quasi-religious sect living in retreat in the country. Persuaded by her parents, he tries to reclaim her but finds his mission is not as straightforward as he had supposed.
Directed by JOHN TYDEMAN Stereo
Robert Carvel talks to a quartet of public figures about their life and work.
1: Garret Fitzgerald
A satirical swipe at the week's news with Bill Wallis
David Tate and Sally Grace
With CHARLOTTE GREEN including Sports Round-Up
Omnibus edition Mind the Gap by RONA MUNRO
Directed by MARILYN IMRIE. Stereo
Saturday evening conversation inspired by current public and private preoccupations
Producer MICHAEL EMBER. Stereo
The King's Wife byjOHNWYKE Stereo
Presented by Richard Baker
Producer DAVID GALLAGHER. Stereo
A reading, a hymn and a reflection led by Frank Topping Stereo
The Inwardness of War
A week before the Armistice of 1918, Wilfred Owen was killed in France: but in the months before his death a spell of 'light duties' in Yorkshire had given him his last real opportunity of writing.
Dominic Hibberd traces the development of Owen's attitudes to the war and to poetry in the period which saw the completion of much of his finest work.
With David Michaels as Wilfred Owen
Producer FRASER STEEL
In a series of sixprogrammes David Bean travels in the footsteps of George Borrow , who in 1837 began the uphill task of selling Protestant Bibles in Catholic Spain. 5: Vigo
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Conceived in Sweden, born in 1946, the Light Programme's long-running request show catered for the needs of women at home - and in the 'age of austerity' those needs were great.
With the help of material from newspaper, magazine and radio archives. Russell Davies and Julie Covington tell the tale of those times and present recordings that were requested and played in the original programmes.
2: Auntie-Freeze - Winter 1946-7 7 Compiled by RUSSELL DAVIES
Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE
