Presented from Scotland by ARTHUR ANDERSON BBC Scotland
1040 Prayer for the Day REV WJLF WILKINSON
with John Timpson in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.0 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News and Weather; and Thought for the Day at 7.45*
English Regions: see column 5
Richard Stilgoe hunts through the BBC Sound Archives for the voices of those who have made history.
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.45 am)
The programme that takes its own particular look at some of the issues and personalities of the forthcoming week. This week Michael Parkinson joins the programme to talk about two things very close to his heart. The studio guests join Kenneth Robinson , Bel Mooney and Sheridan Morley for 55 minutes of interviews, discussion and mild irreverence. Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
We wonder how the cuckoo recognises another cuckoo when it wants to mate, if it has been hatched out by another bird ...
The team also takes a careful look at your questions in this morning's programme.
Introduced by DEREK JONES Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 9; Lord of the worlds above (BBC HB 462); Psalm 65; Acts 6, vv 1-15 (AV); 0 God, our help (BBC HB 467)
The Case for the Defence by DENYS VAL BAKER
Read by Richard Hurndall
' One evening in a flash I realised what was wrong. This beautiful, sensual woman, sitting there with her white shoulders provocatively bare. this woman with the great green eyes burning with secret passion ... was not simply a meek wife dutifully sitting for a portrait ... *
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as Saturday 1.15 pm)
11.50 Announcements
Presenter Sue Cook
The World of Work: MARGARET korving. Your Money Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is writer Len Deighton. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
from 2.0
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading your letters.
Through the Eyes of a Child: boyfriends and girlfriends ... Sentimental Soft Soap: CLAUDIA could remembers the heyday of radio soap opera in the us. One Step at a Time by MARIE JOSEPH , abridged In six parts by PAT mcloughlin Read by Ann Morrish (1)
At the age of 25, with a home and a young baby to cope with, Marie Joseph learned that she had rheumatoid arthritis. (Music: Arnold's Fifth Symphony) Editor wyn knowles
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Story. The Roundabout by TRINA ROCKEY
The White Lady
Poison and Adelaide Bartlett by YSEULT BRIDGES, abridged In ten parts by BARRY CAMPBELL Read by David Brierley
Adelaide Bartlett 's trial at the Old Bailey in April 1866 lasted for six days. Yseult Bridges's book recounts the trial of the lady with ' les yeux fatals and the events leading up to it. As a Times leader of the day commented ...'Whether on the theory of her guilt, or her innocence-the whole story is marvellous!
1: A Marriage Has Been Arranged Producer MICHAEL ROLFE BBC Birmingham
Robert Williams
5.56 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
A radio happening with Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray
Arthur Askey. Cyril Fletcher
In the Chair McDonald Hobley Special guest Joe Loss
From an idea by JIMMY EDWARDS Producer EDWARD TAYLOR
(McDonald Hobley is in ' No Sex, Please - We're British ' at the Strand Theatre, London)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
Strong Poison by DOROTHY L. SAYERS adapted in six parts by CHRIS MILLER starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter and Peter Jones as Bunter with Ann Bell as Harriet Vane and Gabriel Woolf as Chief Inspector Parker 6: Turkish Delight
Producer SIMON BRETT
The Great Gun-Running Episode by BILL MORRISON
The story of Major Frederick Crawford 's determination to arm the Ulster Volunteers in 1914. with Ray McAnally , Kevin Flood Godfrey Quigley and Harold Goldblatt
' have on this boat, the ss Fanny, 20,000 rifles of the latest model and two million rounds of ammunition, bought in Germany and secretly bound for Ireland, and in particular that stout northern corner, Ulster. All illegally, the British Government would say.'
Produced and directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
BBC Northern Ireland
A very considerable play, skilfully and powerfully conceived for sound, finely interpreted by an Ulster cast. (THE TIMES)
Presenter Paul Vaughan Editor ROSEMARY HART
Douglas Stuart reporting
Room at the Top (11)
preceded by Weather
