6.27 Farming Today: ROY GREGOR
6.45 Prayer for the Day BB CHRISTOPHER WOODARD
and more of Today
Including at 8.25 Sportsdesk; at 8.35* Today's Papers
Talking Point
(Sundays broadcast)
The sounds and scenes of a year in the past challenge the memories of residents James Burke and Richard Murdoch , and guests Ted Ray and John Snagge. Robin Ray puts the questions aided by recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. Producer HELEN FRY
BBC Home correspondents and reporters look beyond the headline stories and analyse significant developments throughout the country. Introduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN Producer TOM READ
NEM p 22; My Lord, my Life, my Love (BBC HB 330); Psalm 119, part 8; Acts 12, vv 11-25 (NEB); How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (BBC HB 142)
Perhaps We Shall Meet Again by H. E. BATES
Read by Barbara Mitchell
1 It was no use. She must begin to eat less.... once, she had been slim as a line-prop, like the young woman on the next seat ... '
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Derek Parker presents a portrait of the controversial Welsh MP who established the National Health Service and later became Deputy-Leader of the Labour Party. He discusses Bevan's importance with Michael Foot.
by John O'Hare
Sir William Davenant, the Restoration poet and playwright, was legally the son of an Oxford innkeeper. But some say that William Shakespeare, who often stayed at the inn and became his godfather, was also his natural father.
A modern Irish playwright makes his own imaginative contribution to the debate.
It's your direct line to the Post Office in this special phone-in edition.
Are you getting the best use out of your telephone?
Ring George Scott on 01-580 '4411 to put your question to CyrU Dancey , Director of Service for Post Office Telecommunications. Calls from 11.0 am
12.55
Weather, programme news
William Hardcastle
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guests of the Week:
Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent , the song-writing team
2.0-2.2 News
Cookery Club: fending for yourself on holiday - ideas from PAM DOTTER , JOCELYN HAY. The Berkshire Mercury Is 250 years old: portrait of a local newspaper.
In a Summer Season by ELIZABETH TAYLOR abridged by JANET QUIGLEY Read by Monica Grey
(First of 12 instalments. Music: Symphony No 2 by Kalinnikov)
Story: The Man with a Red Wig by HERBERT MCKAY
Bury Him Among Kings
A family saga of the Great War by ELLESTON TREVOR adapted for radio in three parts by JOHN RICHMOND 2: Dee 1914 - Sept 1915
The first volunteers in France have been given home leave.
Producer HARRY CATLIN
(Leonard Fenton is in ' Magnificence ' at the Royal Court Theatre, London)
' Memory should not rust for want of tending. Curiosity, zest, memory, a perpetual search for experience, a perpetual delight in people, books, trees. flowers, music. Hoc erat in votis. This was in my prayers, and it has been granted to me.'
BENNY GREEN introduces recordings of Sir Compton Mackenzie and, along with excerpts from his writings and some of his favourite music, draws a portrait of this much-loved novelist. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon , Esq by w. M. THACKERAY
Read by GEOFFREY BANKS and ALICK HAYES
3: Professional Gambler
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
5.55 Weather, programme new
Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Norman Hackforth , Peter Glaze with a mystery guest
PETER JONES in the chair Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Friday, 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Thursday, 1.30 pm)
Gerald Priestland
Basildon, Essex
Marriage a la Feydeau
The first of an occasional series of one-act plays by GEORGES FEYDEAU in which the master of French farce follows the hilarious progress from Marriage to (almost) Divorce.
Translated and adapted for radio by PETER MEYER with Jill Bennett as the wife and John Osborne as the husband 1: One Month Early
(Lionie est en avance)
Scene: the Toudoux dining-room in Paris. About 1910. Producer GLYN DEARMAN
(For cast, see Thurs, 3.5 pm)
London v West: Round 3
John Tusa reporting
Miss Marjoribanks
Read by NOEL JOHNSON (18)
A nightly review of the arts and science
People, ideas, events - opinion and discussion. Introduced tonight by Angela Huth
preceded by Weather
11.31 Market Trends
