Presented from Scotland by ARTHUR ANDERSON. BBC Scotland
6.40 Prayer for the Day REV VERNON SPROXTON
Michael Cooke in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
At 7.6 and 8.0 News and more of Today, including Sports News and Today's Papers; at 7.25* and 8.25* VHF Regional News, Weather: and Thought for the Day at 7.45* English Regions, see column 5
by JOHN GILBERT abridged for radio in 15 parts by NEVILLE TELLER
Read by Julian Glover (1)
A story of love, hale, revenge and death - an inescapable cycle into which Peter Castle finds himself unwittingly drawn after his first chance meeting with the lovely Janine. Producer HARRY CATLIN
The studio guests join Esther Rantzen , Kenneth Robinson , Fritz Splegl and who knows who else for 55 minutes of interviews, discussion and mild irreverence.
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
The magazine edition with your favourite wildlife sounds, a look at our hedgerow berries, the competition, and a word on the ' hoddiemedod ' - or do you know it as a ' shellakapookie'?
Introduced by DEREK JONES. Producer JOHN HARRISON
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 34; Come, let us join our cheerful songs (BBC HB 122); Psalm 57; Matthew 6, vv 1-15 (rsv): Fairest Lord Jesus (BBC RB 138)
Making of Marilyn by ETHEL LAMB Read by Betty Hardy
I began to doubt that it would be worthwhile to welcome into my home. even on a daily basis, a young girl of 15... " Is she an orphan? " I asked cautiously. "We know nothing about her origin ... " '
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER
Presenter Sue Cook
The World of Work: MARGARET KORVING studies the market. Your Money
Roy Plomley's castaway is actor George Cole. Show more
12.55
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
John Parry
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk till Two.
2.0-2.2 News
Consumer Notes: with NORMAN TOZER.
Entertainment Round-up: GORbon cow reporting.
Shifting Patterns: a bereavement changed relationships in a family.
MARJORIE WESTBURY reads I Was Murdered by G. M. WILSON (5) Editor WYN KNOWLES
Story: The Puddle by CHRISTINE JONES
At Your Service
Napoleon and Josephine by FRANCES MOSSIKER , abridged in 15 parts by DONALD BANCROFT Read by ROBERT HARDY 6: A Public Scandal
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
John Parry
5.50 Financial Report
VHF Regional news and weather
Starring Tony Hancock
SID JAMES, KENNETH WILLIAMS, HATTIE JACQUES, JOHN VERE and BILL KERR
Script by ALAN SIMPSON and RAY GALTON. Theme and incidental music by WALLY STOTT Producer TOM RONALD
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
In the studio David Sells
Frank Muir gives an irreverent commentary on our social history. 4: Acting
Readers: Alec McCowen Norman Shelley and Nicolette McKenzie
CRITIC: I have knocked everything but the knees of the chorus-girls, and Nature has anticipated me there.
Adapted by SIMON BRETT in seven parts from The Frank Muir Book , to be published 27 September.
Producer HALLAM TENNYSON
(Alec McCowen is in ' The Family Dance ' at the Criterion Theatre, London)
The Grass is Singing by DORIS LESSING , dramatised by MICHAEL KITTERMASTER , With
Janet Suzman and Ronald Lewis The newspaper report that Mary Turner , wife of Richard Turner , had been found murdered at their homestead and that the houseboy had been arrested and confessed to the crime, caused surprisingly little stir among their Rhodesian neighbours. But then the Turners had long been regarded as outcasts from society.
'It is by the failures and misfits of a civilisation that one can best judge its weaknesses.'
With IRENE SUTCLIFFE , JOHN ROWE Produced and directed by JANE MORGAN
(Repeated: next Sun 2.30 pm)
(Janet Suzman is in 'Three Sisters ' at the Cambridge Theatre, London)
at the Edinburgh International Festival: Tony Palmer and Louis Allen reflect on some of the best work of over 170 groups from America, Britain and Europe who have made the pilgrimage to appear in this year's 'Fringe' Festival.
John Tusa reporting including a report from the tuc Conference
And So - Victoria by VAUGHAN WILKINS , abridged in 15 parts by MADGE HART
Book 1: Christopher Harnish Read by Gary Watson (1)
George III is dying and his middle-aged sons are deserting their concubines to wed in haste and produce legitimate heirs to the throne. The year is 1819, and sitting in the window-bay over the porch of a Devonshire inn is Christopher Harnish , a small boy destined to play a vital part in the future of the British monarchy. Producer JOHN CARDY
Would you know how to make a tortoise run in Brentford? Have you tried sugared cucumber as a burp-stopper? Can you guess where Dickens did not go when he had a cold?
Kenneth Robinson answers these and other vital questions of the day in the first of four programmes taken from Not on Your Telly: The Portable Kenneth Robinson, published this week.
preceded by Weather