6.58-7.0 Weather, information and news for your area
The world this morning: Britain at breakfast-time and the news from anywhere on earth Introduced by Jack de Manio
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7,58-S.8 Weather, information and news for your area
and more of Today
(including Today in the South and West introduced by MICHAEL VICKERS , and Regional Extra for the Midlands and E Anglia) E Anglia VHF: see Variations, col 5
8.48 Today's Papers
to an English Gentlewoman Read by GARARD GREEN (7)
(Revised edition of Saturday's broadcast)
presents his personal choice of prose and poetry: before an audience in Queen's University. Belfast.
Produced by JOHN BOYD
NEM p 96: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30): Psalm 82: Matthew 19, vv 16-30 crsvi: Jesu. the very thought of thee 1BBC HB 322)
presenting Bill McCue in It's a Fine Thing to Sing with his guest MARIAN DAVIES BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND
Produced by EDDIE FRASER
by SHEILA STEWART
' Fiftv years ago this society was founded to get up a little show to give money to those who hadn'got. Today people have money.'
Produced by ANTHONY CORNISH (from Birmingham)
WALTER TAPLIN introduces 25 minutes devoted to listeners' own views on current issues
by HENRY CECIL adapted for radio from the TV series by RICHARD WARING starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby
Counsel lor the Prosecution by FRANK MUIR and DENIS NORDEN
RICHARD WARING as Henry Blagrove
JOHN GLYN-JONES as Grimes ANN DAVIES as Sally Mannering JEAN ANDERSON as Mrs Thursby JOHN BAKER as Hindmouth Other parts ALAN BARRY
HECTOR ROSS , FREDERICK TREVES This week's guest stars Andrew Cruickshank as Judge Duncannon and Roy Kinnear as Spicer Produced by david MATCH
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15pm) South West VHF: see Variations, col 5
12.55 Weather, information and news for your area
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: Mr Whiskers by IVY TREMBATH
with the BBC NORTHERN IRELAND ORCHESTRA leader MAURICE BRETT conductor KENNETH ALWYN and JACK ROTHSTEIN (violin)
by D. L. MURRAY adapted for radio in 10 parts by Thea Holme with Joe Melia as Sam Rubens All good things must come to an end: career, life, fortune. Sam's enemies gain the upper hand and he loses - but so what? One can always make a fresh start ... 10: Final Curtain
Produced bv BRIAN MILLER (from Bristol)
(For cast see Friday, 7.30 pm)
1: The Mark of the Wolf
FRANKLIN ENGELMANN recalls some of the places visited and some of the questions asked during the past year With FRED LOADS
BILL SOWERBl'TTS , ALAN GEMMELL Produced by KENNETH FORD
A weekly series of seven first-hand accounts, from the 16th century to the 20th, edited by FRANCESCA M. WILSON
2: Dr Samuel Collins (1660-9) Reader MALCOLM HAYES
Produced by TERENCE TILLER
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening
Including the latest news, the evening press, what's on tonight, the City, and the people and talking points of the day. Presented by William Hardcastle and Steve Race
5.50 6.1 Weather, information and news for your area
Anona Winn, Joy Adamson, Norman Hackforth, Peter Glaze with a mystery guest and David Franklin in the chair.
(Repeated: Thursday, 12.25pm)
(Repeated: Wed, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Pricstland presenting world news and views with MERYL O'KEEFFE
starring Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler in A Little of What You Fancy With NORMA RONALD
RONALD BADDII. EY, JOHN GRAHAM Written by EDWARD TAYLOR and JOHN GRAHAM
Produced by EDWARD TAYLOR
Napoleon III (1808-1873) He trusted in his star, and had a sort of abstract worship of the people, but very little taste for liberty
A radio portrait compiled from contemporary and other sources and written by JOANNA RICHARDSON
John Wood as Napoleon III
Madi Hedd as Queen Victoria Gary Watson as Narrator
A hundred years ago this month Napoleon III of France surrendered to the Prussians at Sedan, and the fall of the Bonaparte dynasty and the Second Empire was decreed. With PATRICIA GALLIMORE
CONSTANCE CHAPMAN , GARARD GREEN JAMES THOMASON , ROSeRT SWANN Produced .by RAY MILES
(Constance' Chapman is in ' The Contractor ' at the Fortune Theatre, London)
Robert Stannage employs the experiences of the underwater pioneers, as recorded in BBC Sound Archives, to take stock of the world beneath the waves.
After 2,000 Years
The victory of Octavian (the future Emperor Augustus) at Actium in Western Greece over the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra was a turning-point in the history of the West.
(Her coin, above, minted in 34 bc, is in the British Museum) M. I. Finley , Professor-elect of Ancient History in the University of Cambridge, talks of the naval battle of 31 bc, of what led up to it, and of its far-reaching implications. Reader DENIS MCCARTIlY
9.58 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
A three-part enquiry into British holiday resorts
2: Hotels, Landladies, and Do-It-Yourself
DAVID BELLAN reports on the accommodation situation
Assault on a Queen by JACK FINNEY
Read by HENRY STAMPER (7)
preceded, by Weather
