REV JOHN JACKSON
Michael Aspel introduces this Spring Bank Holiday edition Including at 6.50 and 7.50 med wave only Travel news. What's on. and (6.50 only) Keep Fit with eileen fowler ; Weather and prog news at 6.55 and 7.55.
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50
to his Son abridged by joy OSBORNE Read by Don Fellows
These letters, by an unknown American father to his son at Harvard University, are full of homespun philosophy, wit and affectionate humour.
Producer NORMAN WRIGHT
(First of seven instalments)
aided by Harriet Crawley , Benny Green. Barry Norman , Lance Percival. Esther Rantzen Kenneth Robinson. Fritz Spiegl Producer MICHAEL EMBER
When following a scent, how do predators smell which way a track heads? Can it be that the tracker can smell a pattern in paw prints?
Introduced by DEREK JONES
Producer DILYS BREESE (Bristol)
NEM, p 89; 0 dearest Lord (BBC HB 2661; Psalm 118, vv 1-14; Hebrews 2, vv 5-18 (NEB); Look, ye saints (BBC HB 127)
A Promise is a Promise by JOHN TOMES
Read by Marjorie Westbury
' Three hundred years ago, her fellow villagers had horribly done Becky Farr to death
(Details as Saturday, 1.15)
But there's more to the Piano Museum than pianos: PAUL BARNES.
Country Special
Presenter Jeanine McMullen has been down on the farm, where the Welsh sheep are setting out for their summer pasturage; MIKE HARTLEY-BREWER investigates keeping a house cow. Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor James Stewart. Show more
James Stewart, film actor
12.55 Weather, programme news
Michael Cooke
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Talk till Two. The Silly Season: journalists BARBARA BUCHANAN and OLGA FRANKLIN on the media's approach to Bank Holidays.
2.0-2.2 News
Out of the Blue: take a running jump with the only all-girl skydiving team in the world. Desert Island Fantasy: BA MASON casts herself as a castaway.
Holiday Hazards: DR TREVOR WESTON answers questions. The Perfect Butler by MARGERY ALLINGHAM abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS read by CARLETON HOBBS
Stories: Sammy Sea-horse Wonders Why by RENE THOMAS and Little Red Train Goes to the Seaside by ROSALIND iox
Wildfire at Midnight
A Fortnight with Forester Death to the French by c. S. FORESTER abridged in five-parts and read by Michael Kilgarriff
Rifleman Matthew Dodd of the 95th Foot, The Rifle Brigade, is cut off from his Regiment during the Peninsular War. 1: Retreat to the Lines
Michael Cooke with PM's reporting team
5.55 Weather, programme news
Based on the original TV series by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
Marooned on the end of the pier with no food, no communication and no means of getting back to dry land, Captain Mainwaring and his doughty men face the horrors of the sea.
Featuring John Laurie, Ian Lavender with Bill Pertwee and David Sinclair, John Snagge.
Gerald Priestland
reads his autobiography Emlyn which he has adapted for radio in seven parts. 3: On the Move Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING
by Oscar Wilde
with Maxine Audley, Fabia Drake, Timothy West and Rosalind Shanks
"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
(Repeated: Sunday, 2.30 pm)
A nightly review of books. films, plays, broadcasting. music and exhibitions. Presenter Peter France
Producer KATHLEEN CHEESMOND
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
My Cousin Rachel by DAPHNE DU MAURIER abridged for radio by MADGE HART
Read by John Westbrook
Ambrose Ashley had been father, friend and mentor to his young cousin Philip. Now for the first time Philip was to meet Ambrose's widow, the mysterious Rachel. Was she friend or foe? Angel or devil? Producerjohn CARDY
(First of 13 instalments)
Popular so4igs from her repertoire accompanied by the NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE gramophone record
preceded by Weather
