The Saturday Show including at 7.45 Down to Earth with Alan Titchmarsh Producer DAVID WELSBY BBC Pebble Mill
Producer ANTHONY CHERRY
Q: Which highly successful writing production team wrote many of the classic hits for Elvis Presley , the Drifters and the Coasters?
A: Leiber and Stoller.
Today Mike Stoller plays some of the products of his long partnership with Jerry Leiber. Producer STUART HOBDAY BBC Bristol
returns for one week only due to Miss Robinson's participation in the matrimonial celebrations for one Mr. Derek Jameson, DJ.
Producer ROGER BOWMAN
1.00 FM joins Radio 1
(See panel)
Introduced by Mike Ingham
Cricket: NatWest Trophy Final Middlesex v Worcestershire
It is their fifth appearance in the final of this competition for Middlesex, but experience isn't everything. Worcestershire put out the Benson and Hedges Cup winners to reach Lord's.
Football: Barclays League
Liverpool V Manchester United at Anfield. Paul Gascoigne returns to Tyneside with Tottenham. Aston Villa v Arsenal in London. Coverage of the top matches.
Racing: from Haydock Park
Peter Bromley commentates on 2.15 £8,000 John Smith's Brewery Handicap (1m) 2.45 £20,000 Hamblin Grand Trophy Handicap (2m 3f) 3.45 £140,000 Vernon's Sprint Cup (6f)
Tennis: US Open Championships
Tony Adamson reports from Flushing Meadow, New York.
Plus European Masters Golf, the new Rugby Union season, and World Individual Speedway Final news from Denmark.
5.00 Sports Report
Presented by Charles Nove Written by ROY PICKARD Producer LISSA EVANS
with Dave Dee
Producer BRIDGET AIM'S
Chairman Glyn Worsnip probes the dark side of Fleet Street with team captains Molly Parkin and Gyles Brandreth joined by Margaret Howard and Simon Dee.
7.30 FM rejoins Radio 2
Paul Eddington presents a concert of film music written by classical composers.
The BBC Concert Orchestra led by MARTIN LOVEDAY conducted by David Coleman plays extracts from Henry V(Walton),
Murder on the Orient Express and Lady Caroline Lamb
(Richard Rodney Bennett ),
The Gadfly (Shostakovich) and Things to Come (Bliss)
Ruriko Tsukahara is the soloist in the Violin Concerto in 0 by Erich Wolfgang Korngold , a work based on four film scores. Recorded at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury.
Producer TIM MCDONALD (Given in association with Charles McK. Finch)
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8.20-8.30*
Tim Gudgin introduces interval entertainment with Nocturnal Triangle. Producer IAN GRANT
The Strings of the BBC Radio Orchestra led by MICHAEL TOMALIN conducted by Ray Davies Presented by Bill Rennells Producer ROBIN SEDGLEY
'Working for peanuts is all very fine....'
Producer NICK CLARKE BBC Manchester
with Dave GeUy
Producer BARBARA PAGE
presents Nightride Producers MEL HOUSE
GRAHAM BELCHERE, RUTH CUBBIN
A musical sequence to please the ear in the early hours Producer DENIS O'KEEFFE
The Early Show
