with John Hedges
Headlines and weather, a look at the papers, news for sports fans. Prayer for the Day (Mon THE REV LESLIE STOKES , Tues-Thurs THE REV VERNON SPROXTON , Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES ), a little music and something on the lighter side.
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Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London look at Britain and the world this morning.
with John Hedges
Headlines, weather, sport and papers, a spot of music and for the Day.
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Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
Editor MIKE CHANEY
8.35 News headlines, weather. papers and sport
Peter Tuddenham selects and reads some of the turn-of-the-century reminiscences of the King of the Norfolk Poachers.
Bernard Falk. Fritz Spiegl and Mavis Nicholson
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
A magazine edition with wildlife sounds you have asked to hear, your letters, the mystery sound competitition - and a look at the strange goings-on in yourback garden. Introduced by derek jones. Producer john" HARRISON Series producer DILYS BREESE. BBC Bristol
NEM, p 58; Father of heaven, whose love profound (BBC HB 290; 1 Canticle 2; Revelation 14, vv 1-7, 13-15 (RSV); Eternal Father (BBC HB 384)
With the help of TONY HANCOCK , THE GOONS
FRANKIE HOWERD , MICHAEL BENTINE
JOHN CLEESE , RONNIE BARKER
DUDLEY MOORE , HINGE AND BRACKET DAME EDNA EVERAGE and others, DAVID JACOBS looks at some of the ways to spend a Bank Holiday Monday, Compiled and produced by GEOFFREY PERKINS
It's most children's dream to work on a farm. and Nethercott House in the heart of Devon was set up to give urban children a chance to make this dream a reality. Jeanine McMullen visited the farm with a group of Birmingham schoolchildren and recorded their impressions of the strenuous, but rewarding, life down on the farm.
Producer FRANCES DONNELLY
Roy Plomley's castaway is surveyor of Queen's pictures Sir Oliver Millar. Show more
Regional news and weather
Introduced by Robert Williams
Woman's Hour, in jubilant mood, celebrates with the help of its listeners and the citizens of many v countries who are neighbours in Mirabel Road, London, SW6
2.0-2.2 News
A Mug for Every Boy ... A Beaker for Every Girl Written and read by John Lincoln
Introduced by Sue MacGregor
Story: Little Benny Surprises his Mother by JEAN DARLING
The Spanish Package
Castle Dor by SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH and DAPHNE DU MAURIER , abridged in ten parts by BARRYCAMPBELL Read by Alan Moore
Set in 19tn-century Cornwall, this is the re-telling of the tragic love story of Tristan and Iseult, with characters drawn from Troy Town - Q'sbest known tale. Originally left uniimshed, Castle Dor was subsequently completed by Daphne du Maurier. 1: The Onion Seller
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol
Presented by Robert Williams
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5.55 Weather; programme news
A Review Revue with words and lyrics by ALAN MELVILLE and music by PETER GREENWELL with Aubrey Woods
Peter Woodthorpe , Norma Ronald and Alan Melville Guest singer: Gay Soper
Producer JOHN TYDEMAN
(Gay Soper is in ' Side by Side by Sondheim ' at Wyndham's Theatre, London; Aubrey Woods is in ' Lionel ' at the New London Theatre
In the studio Peter Hobday
Dirk Bogarde reads from his autobiography. abridged in seven episodes by JACK SINGLETON. 4: All Change Producer ROSEMARYHART
A comedy by Bernard Shaw
With Prunella Scales, Denys Hawthorne and Freddie Jones
(B'cast in 1971) (Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)
The Museum of London
Where else can you go through the experience of the Great Fire of London, stand in the 18th-century Newgate Gaol, see a Roman bikini or a medieval hen's egg. marvel at sculptures from the Temple of Mithras, at Royal Relics, or walk alongside the Lord Mayor's Coach? Chris Powling makes his way through 2.000 years of London's story when he visits
London's newest museum in the Barbican.
Producer JOHN POWELL Editor ROSEMARY HART
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting wiili voices and opinions from around the world
A Bullet In the Ballet by CARYL BRAHMS and s. j. SIMON abridged in ten parts and read by Gabriel Woolf (1)
PetrusSika is shot at the climax of the ballet; and Inspector Quill's investigations are made all but impossible by the involved relationships and volatile characters of the cosmopolitan company of the Balleis Stroganoff.
Producer MARGARETETALL
A conversation with Mary Martin
Of all the stars who have lit up Broadway, few have shone as brightly or for as long as Mary Martin - the vitality of her personality has blasted its way into the memory of a generation of theatre-goers. In a noisy, radiant, and yet very touching way, she symbolised the ordinary American girl and personified the American musical at its brightest and best.
In conversation with Sheridan Morley. mary martin looks back on nearly 40 years in the theatre and recalls some of the many musicals which have been especially written for her. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
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