George Target
Introduced by John Timpson
Including at 6.50 and 7.50 Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit; Weather and programme 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 7.25* and 8.35*: and Thought for the Day 7.45-7.50.
Read by TONY BRITTON as Rodney Savage (17)
Your Poetry Choice
It nounshcth and instructeth our youth; delights our age; adorns our prosperity; comforts our adversity; entertains us at home; keeps us company abroad; travails with ut; watches; divides the times of our earnest, and sports; shares in our country recesses and recreations ... (BEN JONSON) Your poetry requests read by Mary Wimbush and Hugh Dickson. To talk to you about your choice, Dannie Abse. Producer KAY EVANS Woman's Hour Unit
BBC correspondents throughout the world report on the societies they live in the politics and the people.
nem, p 30; Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended (BBC HB 500); Canticle 5; Matthew 22, vv 34-46 (av); 0 food of men wayfaring (BBC HB 209)
by Philippa Pearce
Read by Marjorie Westbury
This was just about a perfect summer afternoon, with sunshine, flowers blooming, and birds singing, even a cuckoo - only that happened to be Lucy next door, who was good at it. And it was Saturday into the bargain Pat strolled down to the gate. Clicked it open...
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited Skewen, Glamorgan
Producer RICHARD BURWOOD
Some amusing and entertaining moments taken from his many broadcasts kept in the BBC Sound Archives.
Presenter Jeanine McMullen
The old and the young: DIANA WALLIS investigates the problems of the senior citizen and the teenage babysitter.
With other items and your letters in What's On Your Mind?
'twixt Isobel Barnett
Eleanor Summerfield and David Nixon , Paul Jennings
Tune twisters from Steve Race In the chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by JAN MESSITER
Producer JOHN CASSELS
(Repeated: Thursday, 6.15 pm)
12.55
Weather, programme news
and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by William Hardcastle
Presenter Sue MacGregor
Contentment: JUNE ROSE talks to people who possess this priceless gift.
2.0-2.2 News
At the Russian Front: FLORENCE FARMBOROUGH was a nurse there 60 years ago.
Waiting in the Wings: what's it like to be an understudy? ANN HEYNO finds out.
Behind the Mind (4): ADRIAN PARKER on meditation.
Nome Dropping: written and read by MICHAEL PERTWEE (2)
Story: Big Fat Rosie at the Seaside by MARY CALVERT
Illustrated paperback, Turnip Tom and Big Fat Rosie, 3Op, from bookshops
by EVELYN WAUGH : dramatised in 11 parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Part 4
A year of Gardeners' Question Time
KEN FORD recalls some of the places visited and questions asked during the past year.
With FRED LOADS, BILL SOWERBUTTS and ALAN GEMUELL
Producer TONY CLIFF
Gardeners' Question Time (third series), 40p, from bookshops
The Big House of Inver by SOMERVILLE and ROSS
Read by DENYS HAWTHORNE
7: Sir Harold Makes an Offer
The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle and PM's reporting team
5.50 Stock Market report
S.55 Weather, programme news
Patrick Cargill stars in a personal choice of comedy with MARY HAMILTON CHRISTOPHER HANCOCK BILL WALLIS and MAX HARRIS who, with his Septet, provides the incidental music
Producers JOHN SIMMONDS
DAVID HATCH
(Patrick Cargill is in ' Two and Two Make Sex ' at the Cambridge Theatre, London)
John Tidmarsh presenting world news and views
recalled by Ian Carmichael 9: Oliver!
A series of nine programmes with words and music from the hit shows that won the triple crown of acciaim in New York, London and on screen during the past 30 years.
Written by MARJORIE BILBOW Producer BOBBY JAYE
The rescue party which set out in search of Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole at the end of that terrible Antarctic winter of 1912 eventually discovered a small tent sticking out of the snow. Inside were the frozen bodies of Scott, Bowers and Wilson.
Much is known about Scott, but who was this ' other man in the tent,' Edward Wilson - ' a first-class scientist, first-class artist, first-class Christian, first-class gentleman, and as near perfect as a man may be.'
Why did the expedition end so disastrously? More than 60 years after, modern research offers some new answers
Taking part PETER MARINKER NIGEL GRAHAM , ROBIN BROWNE JOHN SAMSON. TERRY
SCULLY WILLIAM SLEIGH. JOHN RUDDOCK and the recorded voices of TRYGGVE GRAN
SIR RAYMOND PRIESTLEY and OR ALLAN ROGERS
Narrated by JOHN CARSON
Script by MARY-JEAN HASI.ER Producer ALAN BURGESS
A series of verse anthologies compiled and introduced by ANTHONY THWAiTE and read by HARVEY HALL and GARY WATSON 9: Thalia, the Muse of Comedy Poems by Byron, Clough, Belloc, Henry Reed , Auden, and Gavin Ewart.
Producer GEORGE MACBETH
Presenter Peter France Producer ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Lost Horizon by JAMES HILTON
Read by GEOFFREY MATTHEWS (2)
The first of three talks in which René Cutforth. who has spent so much of his working life in the present, looks from the past to 1974 and finds that life and people bave not changed so very much
The Thirties Revisited: 7.35 pm BBC2. Jesse's morbid 30s: p 4
preceded by Weather
