Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 281,728 playable programmes from the BBC

Michael Aspel introduces Radio 4's 70-minute worldwide look at the weekend: including at
7.50 Travel news and What's on: Weather and programme news at 7.55.
At 8.0
News and more of Today with Sports-desk at 8.30*; Papers at 8.40*

Contributors

Introduces:
Michael Aspel

9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in - the politics and the people.
9.30 Talking Politics
ANTHONY KING follows the passage of a Private Member's Bill, and talks to some of the people involved in it.
10.0 News
10.2 The Weekly World
MICHAEL MOLYNEUX reviews what the weeklies have to say: illustrations read by PETER JEFFERSON Narrator JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE BERNARD TATE , TOM READ

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Molyneux
Read By:
Peter Jefferson
Producers:
Paddy O'Keeffe
Producers:
Bernard Tate

Presenter Roger Cook You and Your Time
Sauna and Massage: this invitation appears in increasing numbers in our high streets. MICHAEL GILLIAM enquires why they are popular, and investigates the benefits - if any - awaiting prospective clients.
With other items and your-letters in What's On Your Mind?

Contributors

Presenter:
Roger Cook
Unknown:
Michael Gilliam

Chairman Robert Robinson Second Round
5: North of England
BILL BENT (Liverpool): lecturer STEWART BARKER (Cheshire) local government officer
STEPHEN MEYER (Yorkshire) teacher
Including Beat the Brains
Questions set and programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER
(Repeated: Friday. 6.15 pm)
Brain of Britain, 35p, from
bookshops
12.55
Weather, programme news

Contributors

Unknown:
Robert Robinson
Unknown:
Stewart Barker
Unknown:
Stephen Meyer
Unknown:
John P. Wynn
Producer:
Martin Fisher

Presenter Sue MacGregor
The week in Woman's Hour.
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON GOW reporting.
What the European papers say. Poverty in the 70s. How Poor is Poor?SUE MACGREGOR talks to people in different income brackets who consider themselves poor in their own terms. A Child in the Forest by WINIFRED FOLEY : abridged by VIRGINIA BROWNE -WILKINSON Read by JUNE BARRIE (8)
A Child in the Forest, £2.25, from bookshops.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Don Gow
Talks:
Sue MacGregor
Unknown:
Winifred Foley
Abridged By:
Virginia Browne
Read By:
June Barrie

The Assassin by ERIC SAWARD
' There is evil in London. The assassin is its right hand. I would not live to spend your money. I risk my life just talking to you.'
Producer ROGER PINE

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Saward
Producer:
Roger Pine
Insp Maitland:
William Eedle
Sgt Bound:
John Hollis
Richard Mace:
Geoffrey Matthews
Roundtree:
Leonard Fenton
Asst Commissioner:
John Bryning
Albert Hugget:
Alan Dudley
Rosie:
Diana Bishop
Rosie's friend:
Carole Boyd
Perkins:
Julian Fox
Jeremiah Scrim,:
Fraser Kerr
Landlady:
Betty Huntley-Wright

John Dunn introduces the radio show for young listeners.
4.0 Admiral Skylark
Tales of a Space-age Twit with GEORGE LAYTON as everyone: written by GAIL RENARD Producer JOHN LLOYD
4.5 In My Opinion
DAVID WATKINS , HATTIE JACQUES and HARRY MORTIMER give their views on questions put by pupils of Wimslow County Boys School.
Producer ANTHONY SMITH
4.30 Liz
A comedy serial play In six parts by ANTHONY BUCKERIDGE Part 5
Play produced and programme edited by GRAHAM GAULD

Contributors

Introduces:
John Dunn
Unknown:
George Layton
Written By:
Gail Renard
Producer:
John Lloyd
Unknown:
David Watkins
Unknown:
Hattie Jacques
Unknown:
Harry Mortimer
Producer:
Anthony Smith
Unknown:
Anthony Buckeridge
Edited By:
Graham Gauld
Liz Armitage:
Helen Worth
Kate Kitchener:
Jill Lidstone
Mrs Kitchener:
Diana Bishop
Mr Collins:
Anthony Buckeridge
Mrs Bulstrode:
Betty Huntley-Wright
Mrs Doyle:
Delia Paton
Miss Thomas:
Carole Boyd
Cleo:
Sharon Rose
AliSon:
Emily Richard
Tracy:
Elizabeth Morgan
Nicola:
Julie Hallam

Leslie Mitchell, broadcaster and newsreel commentator, discusses with Roy Plomley (in a recorded programme devised by him) the gramophone records he would take to a desert island.

(Repeated: Monday, 12.27 pm)

Contributors

Presenter/Devised by:
Roy Plomley
Castaway:
Leslie Mitchell
Producer:
Ronald Cook

The Way We Die Now by MICHAEL Z. LEWIN with Ed Bishop as Albert Samson
Albert Samson is a cynical, fairly friendly, rather introspective private investigator suffering from considerable under-employment. When, to his surprise, he is hired to help a young man charged with an apparently straightforward manslaughter, he uncovers aspects of the case which do little to dispel either his cynicism or. unfortunately, help his client.
Producer ROGER PINE
(Repeated: Monday, 3.5 pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Z. Lewin
Unknown:
Ed Bishop
Unknown:
Albert Samson
Unknown:
Albert Samson
Producer:
Roger Pine
Mrs Jerome:
Joan Miller
Rosetta Tomanek:
Gracie Luck
Det-Sgt Miller:
Blain Fairman
Robinson Holroyd:
Phil Brown
Edward Ephray:
Don Fellows
Ralph Tomanek:
Roger Gartland
Wallace Ridgelea:
Bob Sherman
Bob:
Ramsay Williams
Danny:
Kerry Francis
Mrs Ephray:
Hilda Schroder
Dr Grue:
Stephen Thorne
Waitress:
Diana Olsson
George:
Nigel Graham
Marie:
Sandra Clark
Mona:
Carole Boyd
Sims:
William Sleigh

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Appears in

About this data

This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More

About this data

This data is drawn from the data stream that informs BBC's iPlayer and Sounds. The information shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was/is subject to change and may not be accurate. More