6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
The world this morning: Britain on Bank Holiday and the news from anywhere on earth introduced by Jack de Manio and John Timpson
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50-8.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
and more of Today
(including, in the Midlands and E Anglia, Regional Extra) VHF East Anglia: see col 5
8.40 Today's Papers
by J. H. WILLIAMS
Read by Maurice Denham
The new-born elephant's skin was serrated and loose at the folds, like baby clothes. His complexion was the kind of purple you get by mixing pink and blue in a paintbox.
(First of seven instalments)
Ken Sykora , Zena Skinner
Gordon Clyde , Vivian Stanshall and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Produced by ELIZABETH SMITH
NEM p 44: 0 Holy Ghost, thy people bless (BBC HB 156); Psalm 139: Acts 2, vv 1-6 and 14-21; Come, thou Holy Spirit, come (BBC HB 152)
plays some of his favourite records and explains why they give him particular pleasure
(Repeated: Friday, 9.5 am)
Whitsun Programme
In which Mr Smee. Joanna and Henry return to the Humbug Studio with a fresh supply of songs, jokes, facts and games; and two new stories; and a new Captain Rex Radio adventure; and a new set of proposals for things to do ...
These include going on a picnic, riding bicycles, making fabulous clothes, looking after a pony, learning to swim. making a sundial, and. specially for summer, a selection of Humbug Doomwatch Survival Activities.
Script by ALEXANDER GUYAN Presented by MICHAEL SMEE JOANNA WAKE, GARARD GREEN SHIRLEY DIXON. NIGEL LAMBERT DAVID BRIERLEY and JOHN BULL Produced by ELIZABETH ORNBO Editor MARGARET SHEFFIELD
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Nicholas Woolley
So you ask Robert Morley and AMBROSINE PHILLPOTTS
JACKIE COLLINS , MARGARET POWELL DEREK DOUGAN and JOHN MORTIMER to sit around the same table - and what happens?
Produced by MARSHALL STEWART
Another chance to hear the much publicised hoax programme first broadcast on 1 April this year.
Being a tribute to a non-existent Gerald Burley who won the non-existent Ettore Salvini Prize by the existent:
ANTHONY BURLEY , DAVID HUGHES SIR GILBERT INGLEFIELD
DAVID KOSSOFF
YEHUDI MENUHIN , DIANA MENUHIN THE BISHOP OF SOUTHWARK
DONALD SWANN
Devised and introduced by LEONARD PEARCEY
Produced by RICHARD WILLCOX
The novel by DAPHNE DU MAURIER abridged in eight parts by GORDON GOW
Read by JILL BALCON
4: Portrait of Caroline
' I didn'recognise the face that stared at me in the glass. The eyes were larger, surely, the mouth narrower, the skin white and clear? I watched this self that was not me at all and then smiled: a new, slow smile.'
Produced by PAMELA HOWE (from Bristol)
The news magazine that sums up your day - and starts off your evening
Presented by Nicholas Woolley and Steve Race
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
with Leslie Phillips
Stephen Murray , Jon Pertwee
A chronicle of events aboard HMS Troutbridge
Written by LAWRIE WYMAN and GEORGE EVANS
(Repeated: Tuesday, 1.30 pm)
John Hosken presenting world news and views
A general knowledge contest between schoolchildren in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom.
London team: Michael Davies, Elizabeth Sharp, John Peet
Question-master John Ellison
Wellington team: Alison Miller, Rosalind Salas, Leslie Galler
Question-master Lyell Boyes
(Also broadcast on the networks of ABC Australia, NZBC New Zealand and CBC Canada)
Producers in Wellington Graeme Ross, in London Martin Fisher
Humphrey Lyttelton discusses with DEREK JONES his interest in wildlife and its conservation, and chooses some natural history recordings from the BBC's Sound Archives
Produced by MICHAEL BOWEN and JOHN BURTON (from Bristol)
by Henry James, adapted for radio by Mary Hope Allen
An adaptation of Henry James's novel of the biographer who , would even contemplate marriage in order to acquire information about a famous dead author.
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting, with voices and opinions from around the world
On the Move and Getting Nowhere
Can the increase in the number of people moving about the surface of the earth continue? Should man be allowed completely free movement? If so, how are the wheels to be kept turning - DEREK PARKER asks
PETER HALL , Professor of Geography at Reading University Produced by SUSAN ERLBECK
(Le Grand Meaulnes) by ALAIN FOURNIER
Read by ROBERT EDDISON (6)
All the day's news preceded by Weather
