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
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 Talking Politics
Anthony King goes into the White House to talk to the President's staff and asks: 'Would our Prime Minister benefit from an office on this scale? '
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 JOHN MARSH
Producers PADDY O'KEEFFE and ANNE SLOMAN
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New Every Morning, page 5; Immortal, invisible, God only wise (BBC Hymn Book 10); Psalm 19. vv 1-11; Matthew 3, vv 1-17 (RSV); At thy feet, 0 Christ, we lay (BBC HB 402)
Presented by MARGARET HOWARD Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
Where are the Little Green Men?
Presented by Peter Evans
A handful of browny-red soil, scooped up by the USA's Viking spacecraft, has tantalised scientists with the prospect of life on Mars. Information beamed over 34 million miles to earth from the surface of the planet is building, for the first time, a detailed picture of conditions on another planet in our solar system. Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT
as Radio 3
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Bob Monkhouse presents some of the great transatlantic comedy stars, including
WOODY ALLEN. SHELLEY BERMAN
GEORGE BURNS AND GRACIE ALLEN BILL COSBY , DICK GREGORY
GEORGE JESSELL , SPIKE JONES BOB NEWHART , JACK SHELDON
ALLAN SHERMAN and LILY TOMLIN Script by PETER CLAYTON Producer SIMON BRETT
(Excerpts from the Radio 2 series)
Weekend wonders how you'll be spending the Late Summer Holiday: on the village green? carrying a banner? at loggerheads with the local shop-keepers? lying in the garden with the papers over your face wondering if there's a use for weeds? or joining Jill Burridge and Peter Windows with their studio guests in all of these activities?
And The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H. G. WELLS , abridged by EVANGELINE BANKS , read by ALARIC COTTER Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
In Confidence by SHEILA HODGSON
MooNEY: My dear madam, I've got to get the background! A picture! I've got to have a story for the press right away ...
BRENDA: What do you mean?
MOOONEY: Your husband is the outright winner of our Sun-glow Travel Competition! .. , A holiday for two people in the Bahamas.
BRENDA: You'd better come in, Brenda
Produced and directed by DAVID H. GODFREY
(Repeated: Wed 11.30 am)
as Radio 3
Gordon Clough with PM's reporting team Editor DEREK LEWIS
5.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A series of six plays based on the novels Of GEORGES SIMENON
2: Maigret in Montmartre translated bv DAPHNE WOODWARD and adapted for radio by AUBREY WOODS
Produced and directed by GLYN DEARMAN
(Repeated: Friday 8.30 pm)
(Michael Gough is a National Theatre player)
Tolchard Evans, the song-writer, chooses the records he would take to a desert island, and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
(Repeated: Monday 12.27 pm)
Richard Baker with records
(Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
The Rabid Summer by JAMES FOLLETT, with Patrick Barr, Clifford Norgate, John Ringham, Garard Green and Pauline Letts.
It is a hot August Bank Holiday and in a small sea-side town panic and disaster strike when it is discovered that rabies has broken out. How did it enter the country? The outbreak must be controlled, people must be protected, the culprit must be found....
Animal effects bv PERCY EDWARDS With the assistance of the Animal Health Division of the Ministry of Agriculture. Produced and directed by KAY PATRICK
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
9.58 Weather
The story of Queen Victoria in a series of 13 episodes.
9: So Kind and Denoted Minister by JASPER RIDLEY
' With the Queen I lay it on with a trowel.'
Produced and directed by NESTA pain
Evening prayers led by REV MEURWYN WILLIAMS BBC Wales
preceded by Weather
