6.27 Farming Today presented by BRYAN PLATT
6.45 Prayer for the Day
The world this morning introduced by John Timpson and Robert Robinson
6.50 Travel news. What's on. and Keep Fit with EILEEN FOWLER VHF: Regional news. weather
6.55 Weather, programme news
7.0 News and more of Today including at 7.25 Sportsdesk: at 7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Thought for the Day
7.50 Travel news. What's on VIIF: Regional news, weather
7.55 Weather, programme news
8.0 News and more of Today including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35 Today's Papers
Regional VHF: see Variations
Solomon - born 9 August 1902 A second hearing of the 70th birthday programme about the child prodigy from London's East End who became one of the world's finest concert pianists. A stroke shattered his career in 1956. Members of his family, friends and colleagues tell his remarkable story. They include SIR ARTHUR BLISS , SIR ADRIAN BOULT , SIR NEVILLE CARDUS , GERALD MOORE , flautist GARETH MORRIS , and the late HERBERT MENGES who conducted Solomon's last performance.
Compiled and presented by DAN ZERDIN
Vasectomy is a relatively new method of contraception which entails a minor operation for men.
IAN HYAMS talks to a man who had the operation and to doctors and others concerned with the questions posed by this form of birth control.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
NEM p 90; The Saviour died, but rose again (BBC hb 497); Psalm 121: Matthew 19, vv 1-15 (Rsv); We sing the praise of him who died (BBC HB 95)
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conductor ASHLEY LAWRENCE with music of Elgar JOANNA GRAHAM (baSSOOn)
MICHAEL MEYEROWITZ (clarinet) KENNETH MARTIN (clarinet)
Introduced by ROY WILLIAMSON
by KENNETH WOOD
' You've seen what looks like oppression and injustice, so you have to do something about it. Kidnap Mr Williams , for example. And shoot him perhaps.'
Producer DAVID CAIN
John Edmunds presents the Radio 4 series that tackles topics of direct concern to you. Your Health and Welfare
Art Therapy: BARBARA MYERS looks at the way art classes are used in the treatment of certain types of mental disorders. Other topical items too, and a selection from your letters in What's On Your Mind?
(Write to You and Yours, BBC, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA)
VHF South West: see Variations
Starring A. Gibbon, OBE and featuring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall, Bill Oddie
with THE DAVE LEE GROUP
Written by BILL ODDIE and GRAEME GARDEN
Producers DAVID HATCH and PETER TITHERADGE
12.55 Weather, programme news VHF : Regional news, weather
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Story: The Naughty Kitten by HILDA CARSON
BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA leader IAN TYRE conductor IAIN SUTHERLAND including music by Ronald Binge. Leonard Bernstein and the waltz from Khachaturyan's Masquerade Suite
IAN WALLACE singing English and Scots songs with WILFRID PARRY (piano)
Mind the Gap
A mixture of the laconic, the luminous, the lovesick, the larkish and the labyrinthine. Producers MICHELL RAPER and ROBERT FOX
The Professor by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Read by JOHN DAGLISH 4: Mademoiselle Henri
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 VHF; Regional news, weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A panel game controlled (!) by Nicholas Parsons in which
Kenneth Williams , Derek Nimme Clement Freud , Andree Melly try to talk for just a minute on this and that
(Repeated: Friday. 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland presenting world news and views
by ELIZABETH NICHOLAS
The quest for the story of seven women who had been wartime agents of SOE dramatised for radio in six episodes bv ROBERT BARR
Part 4
Also taking part
ANDREW SACHS. EVA STUART BARRY LETTS , RUTH PORCHER
Producer CHARLES MAXWELL
Librettist with Max Adrian as Lorenzo da Ponte Written by CHARLES OSBORNE
Narrator MARTIN FRIEND
One of the most remarkable partnerships in musical history was that between Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Within four years it produced three supreme operatic master-pieces, The Marriage of Figaro. Don Giovanni , Cosi fan tutte.
Da Ponte was an adventurer In the style of his friend Casanova. He survived Mozart by nearly 50 years and in old age produced his Memoirs, which recount some of the adventures of his long and extraordinary life He died in 1838 in New York.
Producer ALAN HAYDOCK
(Max Adrian is in ' Trelawny ' at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London)
A weekly magazine of the arts Presented by J. W. Lambert including:
Savage Messiah: JONATHAN MILLER on Ken Russell 's new film about the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska , with Scott Antony and Dorothy Tutin
Love and Mr Lewisham : the television serial adaptation of H. G. Wells 's novel, now on BBC2
Producers ALAN HAYDOCK and MIRIAM RAPP
GEORGE LUCE takes a look at new inventions, new ideas and new discoveries in the world of science and technology, and introduces some of the people concerned with them.
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
John Tusa reporting
A Room with a View by E. M. FORSTER
Read by GABRIEL woolf (4)
preceded by Weather
