reports from the Royal Show at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire and looks back over 150 years of the show's organising body, the Royal Agricultural Society of England.
Producer ALLAN WRIGHT BBC Pebble Mill
with James Whitbourn
Presenters Peter Hobday and Sue MacGregor Editor PHILIP HARDING
Presenter Cliff Morgan It's Ladies' Final day at Wimbledon.
Producer BOB SHENNAN
The travel programme presented by Bernard Falk with Nigel Coombs. Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
0 INFORMATION: sendsae, dated 8 July, to: [address removed]
Robert Elms looks for the reality behind four separate social groups which have all caused a moral panic and a public outcry. 2: The Yuppie
From Porche to penthouse, from Wall Street to 'your street', we look for the actuality behind the acronym.
Producer CATHERINE MAHONEY Stereo
A reflected history in eight reels.
Reel 2: Merrie England
'Costume dramas are, on the whole, not about the past; they are using the facts of history to comment on the present. That is supremely true of the two Queen Victoria films - Victoria the Great and Sixty Glorious Years.'
JEFFREY RICHARDS
With the opinions of film historians
Jeffrey Richards and Sue Harper , directors Richard Lester and John Boorman and the voices, among others, of MARGARET LOCKWOOD , JAMES MASON.
ANNA NEAGLE , FLORA ROBSON and CHARLES LAUGHTON. Reader DAVID KING
Compiled and researched by PAUL WELLS Narrated by CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING
Directed by JOHN POWELL Stereo
with Michael White of The Guardian.
Producer DENNIS SEWELL
Producer HOWARD ROGERS
A series of five programmes in which Humphrey Carpenter looks at the members and activities of five flourishing literary societies in this country. 1: The Tolkien Society Producer NICK UTECHIN (R)
A series of six programmes. Richard Stilgoe leads his troupe of players into Britain's financial heartland to dispel some of the myths of money-making.
A musical revue featuring Charles Collingwood Belinda Lang
Tim Pigott-Smith and Kathryn Tickell.
Written by RICHARD STILGOE Producer NEIL CARGILL. Stereo
David Mellor , QC. mp, Graham Dowson , Paul Boateng , mp, and Germaine Greer
Chair James Naughtie and at 2.00pm
Any Answers? [number removed]
Call James Naughtie with Any Questions? issues.
Producers JOHN HOLMES and KEITH JONES. BBC Bristol
0 LINES OPEN from 12.30pm
by JULIA JONES.
With June Barrie as Cora Meg Davies as Blanche and Barbara Kellermann as Daphne.
Why do the sisters always go on holiday together, when every year they quarrel?
Directed by SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN BBC Bristol. Stereo
Marjorie Lofthouse visits writer Julia Jones to discover the festivals and folklore of July.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS BBC Pebble Mill
Barry Cunliffe presents the programme where the past speaks to the present. In 1284, or so legend has it, the mysterious Pied Piper rid the Westphalian town of Hamelin of a plague of rats. When the ungrateful councillors failed to pay their benefactor, he piped a different tune and took their children. Sean Street visits the medieval town. Researcher FELICITY GOODALL Producers KATE MCALL and JOHN KNIGHT. BBC Bristol
Rosemary Hartill talks to Brian Moore.
with Bill Wallis , David Tate. Sally Grace and Jon Glover
and Sports Round-Up
by SCOTT CHERRY
Produced and directed by CUVE BRILL. Stereo
The programme that shows there is more to design than meets the eye. Producers IAN KIRK-SMITH and JANET LEE
Vacant Possession
A quartet of plays by four different writers about the events springing from the sale of a house belonging to a divorced couple, who have each moved on to new partners. With and with JOE DUNLOP , SUSAN SHERIDAN , PAUL DOWNING and BRIAN MILLER.
1: One Door Closes.... by PAUL ANGELIS Maggie's story
and at 8.30
2: Home Game by LIANE AUKIN Tom's story
Original idea by PAUL ANGELIS Directed by JANE MORGAN Stereo
(Parts 3 and 4, Monday 3.00pm)
The conductor
Jeffrey Tate shares some childhood impressions of music and words.
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
led by Canon Colin Semper Stereo
The Happiest of All Princesses
The correspondence of Marie Antoinette and her mother, the Empress
Maria Theresa , translated by OLIVIER BERNIER and adapted by CAROLE ROSEN.
Producer FIONA COUPER. Stereo
Leonard Barras reads two more of his fairly likely stories of Wallsend life :
The Millennium Minus a Bit and Under Canvas with Trapezium.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
1959: Little Girls Get Bigger Russell Davies and Maureen Lipman tell the tale of those times.
Compiled by RUSSELL DAVIES Producer JONATHAN JAMES-MOORE . Stereo
(First broadcast on Radio 2)
