Presented from Wales by JOHN GLYN-JONES BBC Wales
6.40 Prayer for the Day JEAN RICHARDSON
John Timpson in London and Brian Redheadin Manchester
At 7.0) and 8.41 News and more of Today including at 7.17* and 8.17* latest news of the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, and the rest of the sports news: 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
continues his investigation of the BBC Sound Archives.
Mavis Nicholson. Kenneth Robinson and Fritz Spiegl review some of the events in the forthcoming week and talk with some of the personalities for whom the next six days have a special importance. Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
In the Essex village where I grew up, the oldest inhabitants used to call snails ' Hoddiemedads '. Have you ever heard this expression and do you know how it originated?
The Wildtife team choose their words carefully in answering your questions. Introduced by DEREKJONES. Producer
DILYS BRESEBBC Bristol
NEM. p 9; All things bright and beautiful (BBC HB31: Psalm 8: Ephesians 1, vv 17-23 and 2, vv 1-10 (av): Praise the Lord: (BBC HB 161
Voices on a Birthdav by JOHN CONWAY
Read by Grizelda Hervey
' I was only lonely when the voices stopped, but they soon came back. either solo or in duet. trio. even quartet.... I've had a full and satisfying life and a certain amount of fame. " Judith Armand ? " I can hear you saying. "Soprano? Opera, lieder, oratorio? On records? Oh. the old 78s. So sorry ... " '
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
(Details as 11.50 Announcements
Presenter Sue Cook
The World of Work: MARGARET KORVING studies the market, Your Money
Editor DENNIS LOWER
Roy Plomley's castaway is singer-songwriter Mel Torme. Show more
Regional news and weather
Robert Williams
(Friday's broadcast)
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.8-2.2 News
Reading your leliers.
Going to School: memories on the way from DORA SAINT CHARLES ALLEN and MOLLY WEIR. Personal Collection: CECILY HALE shows BARBARA MYERSher souvenirs of the suffragette movement
The Gipsy in the Parlour(10) Editor WYN
Story: Paddy the Spaniel by EMMA MILTON
Jonas
The Autobiography of Mark Twain abridged in five parts by Charlotte and Denis Plimmer
One hundred years ago The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published. What kind of man was the author? What gave his work its irony and compassion, its vitality and humour? These five extracts from Twain's autobiography allow him to speak for himself - to tell us of those experiences, both comic and tragic-upon which he drew so heavily for his writing.
Read by Peter Dyneley. 1: Son and Brother
Robert Williams
5.50 medium ware only Financial Report
VHFRegional news and weather
5.55 Weather, programme news
Another chance to hear
Tony's Childhood Sweetheart starring Tony Hancock, Sid James, Bill Kerr,
Kenneth Williams, Pat Hayes
Script by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON
Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT
Producer TOM RONALD Preview: page 19
In the studio David Sells
by CHARLES DICKENS adapted in four parts and read by Emlyn Williams
4: A New Meaning in the Roman In which we visit the Turveydrop Dancing Academy and the Sol's Arms. learn how Mr Krook disappeared and discover a stain upon the floor.
Producer CHRISTOPHER VENNING Preview: page 19
by Martin Walser, translated by Christopher Holme
with Ambrosine Phillpotts as Maximiliana and Alan Moore as Thassilo
Thassilo, a private detective with a mother problem, would dearly love to get his hands on the Lindau Piela, or Suffering Madonna, a valuable medieval statue. But first he must set out to charm its owner: a wealthy widow and 'suffering madonna' of quite another kind. The play is set in modern Germany.
BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30pm)
A nightly review of books, films. plays. broadcasting, music and exhibitions. Presenter Peter France Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
Dr Gully by ELIZABETH JENKINS
Read by RACHEL KEMPSON (9)
preceded by Weather
