Producers DYLAN WINTER and SUE BROOME
with Br Samuel , SSF BBC Manchester. Stereo
Presenters Peter Hobday and Gall Foley
by KENNETH GRAHAME abridged in ten episodes by COLIN SMITH
Read by Alan Bennett
Producer COLIN SMITH. Stereo
invites a team of Gentlemen and Players for breakfast on the fourth morning of the Fourth Test.
Researcher AMANDA MARES Producer CHRIS ELDON LEE BBC Manchester. Stereo
Nicholas Craig reads from his autobiography.
Also including the work of Nigel Planer, Christopher Douglas ,
Christopher Ryan , Chrissy Roberts. Written by NIGEL PLANER and CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS
Producer BILL DARE. Stereo (R)
John Amis talks to violinists Salvatore Accardo and Nigel Kennedy , cellist Robert Cohen and scientist
Dr Colin Gough about Strads and samples the sounds of 17 of them Producer PHILIP JORDAN Stereo (R)
Concerning Virgins by CLARE BOYLAN
Read by Maureen O'Brien Producer DUNCAN MINSHULL
Introduced by Shirley Scott from St Martin's Church, Worcester.
Beyond all mortal praise (NEH 340); Psalm 8; From the Rising of the Sun (Ouseley); Immortal, invisible (NEH 377)
Organist TREVOR TIPPLE BBC Pebble Mill
(Details as Sunday 5.00pm L W)
with Simon Rae.
Reader Robert Powell Producer SUSAN ROBERTS BBC BristoL Stereo
Presenter John Waite
Chair Robert Robinson Semi-Final 4 - Highest-Scoring Runners-Up Contestants:
Marion Read , John Woodward , Barbara Thompson and John Watt.
Including Beat the Brains. Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN
Questions set by IAN GILLIES
Producer RICHARD EDIS. Stereo
Presenter Nick Worrall
Susan Sheridan reads Dicky Dolphin and Sandy by JOE DUNLOP Today: Best of Friends Producer MARY HAYDON Stereo
Presenter Wendy Austin Serial: Walking Across Egypt (8)
Editor CLARE SELERIEGREY
by MICHAEL ROBSON
Stereo (Details as Sat 7.45pm)
Singer and musician Lucie Skeaping visits Spain in search of the legacy of medieval Jewish music.
Stereo
Presenters Hugh Sykes and Valerie Singleton. Including a report on the Fourth Test at Old Trafford.
Stereo (Details Sat 12.25pm)
Written by SIMON FRITH
BBC Pebble Mill
John Humphrys talks to Derek Barron , Chair and Chief Executive of Ford UK.
(Details Saturday 4.30pm L W)
Reels to Forget, Airs for
Kegret by NEIL MCKAY. Lynsey returns home to live with her father after spending four years in a home for disturbed children.
GILL MCKAY (folk fiddle) Directed by SUSAN HOGG BBC Manchester. Stereo
Alan Hankinson reads selections from the letters of Private John Pine , who 'ought in South Africa in the 1850s and later in the Crimea.
With Renny Krupinski as Private Pine.
Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
Jeremy Irons stars in Danny, Champion of the World; John McGlinn conducts the music of Jerome Kern ; and Joyce McMillan travels with the Scottish Poetry Gallery. Presenter Mark Steyn Producer MIKE GREENWOOD
Sterro
Fantasy and Fugue (9) by ROY FULLER abridged in ten parts by LIBBY SPURRIER
Read by Terence Wilton Producer MICHAEL FOX BBC Manchester. Stereo
With Robin Lustig
Editor MARGARET BUDY