6.50-7.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
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The world this morning: from Britain at Bank Holiday breakfast-time to live coverage from
The Munich Olympics introduced by Michael Aspel
7.25 Sportsdesk from Munich
7.30 News Summary
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Regional news, weather and programme news
8.0 News and more from the Today Bank Holiday special
8.25 Sportsdesk from Munich
8.30 News Summary
8.40 Today's Papers
by ROBERT STANDISH
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY (11) ‡
Linda Blandford , Zena Skinner Fritz Spicgl , Stan Arnold and who knows who take a lively look round and meet some of the people for whom this is a special week. Producer HUGH PURCELL
NEM p 37; Lord of mercy and of might <BBC HB 295); Psalm 84; Matthew 13, vv 34-43 (rsv); Jesus calls us! (BBC HB 354)
Frank Sinatra
An insight into the man behind an extraordinary legend
Written and introduced by ALAN DELL
' I've read so many varied reports and they ranged from the fact that the youngsters were rooting for the boy next door all the way up to a sex symbol. I just think that a crooner or a troubadour- let's put it that way - has been the symbol of entertainment that people have been attracted to for many years. I think they've admired anyone who can get up and sing a love song.'
Producer JOHN KNIGHT
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
David Franklin and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden In the chair Steve Race
Presenter Nigel Murphy
Bank Holiday Edition including The Queens English? Northerner PETER SANDY talks to NorthernerJOHN WIDDOWSON about accents and dialects
Catching Your Guru: CAROLINE GRAHAM takes up yoga
Cleaning the Mirror with The Times: KENNETH Robinson decides which newspapers are best for what - except reading
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by Robert Williams
A light-hearted look at the holiday-life scene, in which Al airs the views of the silent majority.
THE NEW SEEKERS
MAX HARRIS AND HIS
AMAZING DANCING BAND
Written by RONNIE TAYLOR Producer JOHN BROWELL
Jean Metcalfe introduces a Bank Holiday anthology
Carrington VC
Clear the Fast Lane by DOUGLAS RUTHERFORD arranged for radio in five parts by BARRY CAMPBEI. L
Read by John Rowe
Grant Callaway , a racing driver down on his luefc. agrees to drive a GT car from London to Salonika at breakneck speed because the money is good. The freight is just a plain wooden box ...
1: Wanted One Driver Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS
The news magazine: presented by Robert Williams and PM's reporting team
5.50-6.0 Regional news, weather and programme news
Written and adapted for radio from their television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS The Affair at Cookham Lock starring
Producer DAVID HATCH
(Repeated: Wed. 12.25 pm)
(Repeated: Tuesday. 1.30 pm)
Adam Raphael presenting world news and views
DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S novel abridged in eight parts by GORDON GOW. Read by JILL BALCON 7: The Evidence
' Rebecca was murdered. And if you want to know who the murderer was, why there he stands, by the window there, with that God-damned superior smile on his face ... '
Producer PAMELA HOWE
A not-particularly-solemn quiz in which Ned Sherrin puts literary questions to literary people. This week:
Elizabeth Jane Howard
John Gross, David Bcnedictus Questions compiled by BARRY CARMAN and GORDON SNELL Producer ALAN JONES
(BBC World Service production)
Jill Bennett , Derek Godfrey Patricia Routledge
John Moffatt and Basil Most in Sauce for the Goose (Le Dindon) by GEORGES FEYDEAU
Translated and adapted for radio by PETER MEYER with Eleanor Bron , Aubrey Woods
Adrienne Posta , Wilfrid Carter and Christopher Good
The action takes place -rapidly - in Vatelin's sitting-room, the Hôtel Ultimus and Rédillon's study. All in Paris: 1896.
Producer GLYN DEARMAN
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
there's a great woman ... or so the legend goes.
Robert McKenzie talks to the women behind some of the leading politicians in post war politics and asks them about the strains, pressures and compensations of marriage to men in public life.
1: Jennie Lee , Baroness Lee of Asheridge: widow of Aneurin Bevan and herself an MP for 41 years and Minister for the Arts 1967-70. A series of five talks
Producer ANNE SLOMAN
The Devil's Advocate by MORRIS WEST
Read by DAVID GARTH (13)
preceded by Weather
