The Leighton Estate: an attempt to bring new life to a Victorian's model farming estate near Welshpool.
Presented and produced by Tim Finney.
BBCPebbleMill
with James Whitboum
with John Humphrys and Peter Hobday Editor PHILIP HARDING
Europe's top athletes are in Gateshead for this weekend's European Cup Final. Presenter
Gerald Williams
Producer CHARLES RUNCIE
The Italian Riviera is today's venue, with Chris Hawksworth and Dilly Barlow. Producer
JENNY MALLINSON DUFF
The second of a four-part musical journey with Andy Kershaw. Andy takes on West
African bureaucracy and visits the medicine man. Producer SIMON BROUGHTON Stereo (R)
A history in eight reels. 6: To Be New Is Very Heaven
The rebellious 50s, the swinging 60s and Free Cinema. With the opinions and voices of ALEXANDER WALKER
LINDSAY ANDERSON
STEPHEN FREARS
RICHARD LESTER
DEREK JARMAN
CHARLES WOOD and JOHN SCHLESINGER.
Compiled and researched by PAUL WELLS
Script and narration by CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING
Directed by JOHN POWELL Stereo
While Parliament is in recess, David Walter talks to leading politicians about what they enjoy reading. In this first programme The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke , MP, discusses his tastes in literature, with extracts from his favourite books. Producer MARGARET HILL
Producer HOWARD ROGERS
The last of five programmes in which Humphrey Carpenter looks at the activities of literary societies.
The G.K. Chesterton Society
Producer NICK UTECHIN (R)
The Countryside
Richard Stilgoe is at the Royal Agricultural Show revealing the secrets of farmyard life.
Songs, poems, stories and music slaughtered by Charles Collingwood , Belinda Lang ,
Peter Blake , Francesca Brill and Kathryn Tickell.
Written by RICHARD STILGOE Producer NEIL CARGILL
Ludovic Kennedy takes a personal look at 40 years of Any Questions?
Four British families - the Nobletts, the Lejeunes, the Pathaks and the Haslams - continue their story through 1,000 years of world history.
Written and presented by Eric Robson.
Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE (R)
A play by NEIL MCKAY.
Lynsey returns home to live with her father after four years in a home for disturbed children.
Directed by SUSAN HOGG
A monthly celebration of the festival and feast days once celebrated in Britain. Marjorie Lofthouse talks to writer Julia Jones about the folklore of August.
Producer SARAH ROWLANDS
Presenter Barry Cunliffe. The last in the series of programmes where the past speaks to the present. Researcher FELICITY GOODALL Producers KATE MCALL and JOHN KNIGHT. BBC Bristol
Sue MacGregor's first guest is the artist Anthony Green.
With Jo Kendall
Michael Troughton John Baddeley
Bernadine Corrigan and Daniel Strauss
and Sports Round-Up
by SCOTT CHERRY
Produced and directed by CLIVE BRILL. Stereo
Dr Anthony Clare 's guest is the man who was the commander of the Falklands Task Force in 1982, Admiral Sir John Woodward.
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A Very Civil War by CHRIS CURRY.
There's nothing like the family to give you support when you need it, except in Cath's case, when you're pregnant and you don't want to be.
Directed by TONY CLIFF
Phil Harding is one of a handful of people using Neolithic techniques to fashion flint into tools, building materials and jewellery. In conversation with Malcolm Billings , he explains his love for this ancient craft.
Producer CHRISTOPHER STONE Stereo
With the former King's Singer, Brian Kay.
Producer JANE BEVAN. Stereo
led by The Rev Dr John Sentamu. Stereo
The Red Fir Tree and the White Cockade
One hundred years ago James Connell wrote a poem entitled The Red
Flag, which has become a working-class anthem sung to the tune also known as 0 Tannenbaum. Steve Race traces the history of the words and of the music.
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo
John Timpson introduces listeners to his county in a series of six conversations with some of the people who live and work in Norfolk.
3: Bishop of Norwich - The Rt Rev Peter Nott , Vice Chairman of the Archbishops' Commission on Rural Areas. Producer
MARJORIE LOFTHOUSE. BBC Pebble Mill
1963: From Me to You Russell Davies and Maureen Lipman tell the tale of those times.
Compiled by RUSSELL DAVIES Producer JONATHAN JAMES MOORE. Stereo
