Producers ROBIN HICKS and GARTH COOPER
6.50
Outlook: reflecting matters of Christian interest and concern. VHF Regional news and weather
6.55 Today's listening; weather
A weekly review of the agricultural scene.
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
7.45 Outlook
with Paul Barnes in London; including Olympic Sports Desk at 8.17*, with latest news of the 1976 Olympic
Games inMontreal, and the rest of the sports news.
At 8.0
News and more of Today with at 8.25-VHF Regional news and weather
9.5 From Our Own Correspondent
9.30 The Week In Westminster
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with HUGO
YOUNG
10.0 News
10.2 Between the Lines
NIGEL REES invites journalists to confront their readers and the people they have written about in the press this week. Narrator SUSAN DENNY
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE
DAVID WALTER and ANNE SLOMAN
New Every Morning, page 5; Blest are the pure in heart (BBC Hymn Book 318); Psalm 47; Ephesians 1, vv 3-14 (AV); Awake, our souls, away, our fears! (BBC HB 300)
Presented by Margaret HOWARD Producer DENYS GUEROULT
Glozel: The French Piltdown? Presented by Anthony Smith
Does the archaeological site at Glozel, in Vichy, France, provide evidence for the earliest known writing, or are the clay tablets found there merely a 20th-century fraud? These questions have been the cause of bitter argument between archaeologists. Are new scientific dating techniques going to resolve the issue?
Producer THELMA RUMSEY
presents for your pleasure a weekly selection of popular classics, in performances chosen from over 75 years of gramophone recordings.
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Clive Jenkins
Norman St John-Stevas , up
Alex Jarratt. Esther Rantzen Chairman David Jacobs from Essex
Jill Burridge and Andy Price sometimes in control of a lively hour, with reporters at large and guests in the studio. And JOHN HOLLIS reads Stories of the Night Watchman by w, w. JACOBS, abridged by MONICA GREY . 6: The Dreamer Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
Very Like a Whale
The last in a series of three plays about the life and times of William Shakespeare by H. F. RUBINSTEIN
This play was written for radio just before H. F. Rubinstein 's death last year at the age of 84. with Peter Jeffrey and Pauline Letts
Stratford-upon-Avon, 25 March 1616
The dying Shakespeare is faced with problems on all sides - not only from his family and neighbours, but also as to the future use of his rich legacy of great plays.
Directed by MARTIN JENKINS
For the first time in the series, music by Handel.
Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD Handel Recorder Sonata in F major, Op 1 No 11: MICHALA trio Michala Petri Ureble recorder) David Petri (cello)
Hanne Petri (harpsichord) Handel Silete Venti
ELISABETH SPE1SER (SOpranO)
BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD (Repeats)
Haydn Symphony No 98, in B flat major
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA conducted by GEORGE SZELL (gramophone record)
Gordon Clough
Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Unpredictable table-talk bounced off the week's crop of sense and/or nonsense, with observers of. and contributors to, the current social, artistic and political scene.
Musical intervals by THE TEMPERANCE SEVEN Producer ALAN ROGERS
The singer and songwriter Mel Torme chooses the records he would take to a desert island, and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened cdn: Thurs 9.5 am)
A radio play by J.C.W. Brook
An ouija board is something like a gilded cage. The upas forms the bars, the sandalwood - sweet-smelling, gentle, kind - the gilding. A spirit can be happy there, providing it is released in time by the mystic who summoned it forth. That mystic was now slain, and the sandalwood steeped in a murdered sister's blood. The gilded cage had turned into a torture chamber, and there was no escape. The board was cursed. Julian Holloway as Max Brown, Anna Cropper as Julie Brown John Rye as Hugo Stevens, Prunella Scales as Pat Stevens David March as Mohammet Asif and Carole Boyd as the telephonist.
(Repeated. Monday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
The story of Queen Victoria. her life and the great events of her time in a series of 13 episodes, with Peggy Ashcroft as the Queen
4:The Hungry 40s by JASPER RIDLEY
Lord Ashley on the slums: 'Discontent, malignity, filth and vicious habits; health is impossible in these dreadful parts '.
Ballads arranged by CHARLES CHILTON , Sung by CHARLES YOUNG and accompanied by ANNA BERENSKA Produced and directed by NESTA PAIN
An evening meditation led by FR BILL ANDERSON with JOHN DOIG (violin) accompanied by BERNARD SUMNER
preceded by Weather
