with Piers Burton-Page
S.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
English Regions: see column 5
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Piers Burton-Page
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London
8.35 News headlines, weather. papers and sport
(A shortened version oj Saturday's broadcast)
NEM, p 30; 0 Lamb of God all-holy (BBC HB 530); Psalm 22; Acts 22, v 30 to 23, v 11 (NEB); There is a green hill far away (BBC HB 92)
A Dead Cert by SEAN O'FAOLAIN
Read by Allan McClelland
' Whenever Jenny Rosse came up to Dublin, to break the monotony of " life in the provinces ", the one person she never failed to ring was Oweny Flynn. ' Producer PAUL MULDOON BBC Northern Ireland
BRIAN JOHNSTON recently visited The Romney. Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in Kent Producer ANTHONY SMITH BBC Bristol
(.Monday's broadcast)
Consumer Edition
Presenter Sue Cook
Including the BBC Shopping Basket, and the Best Buys for the weekend.
A perfectly wizard invitation to chortle in the company of bright young things Mr Barrington 'Barry' Cryer, Mr William 'Bill' Pertwee, Mr Jimmy 'The Cad' Perry, Miss Gilda 'Toots' Perry, with dancing in the orangery to the hot cello of Mr Nic Rowley AND HIS RIALTO RAGAMUFFINS
Authors MR BARRINGTON CRYER AND MR JIMMY PERRY
Announcer MR PIERS BURTON-PAGE
Producer MR JOHN HARDRESS LLOYD
(Repeated: Tuesday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Those Faraway Places: MIKE SHEILS recently took a holiday in Siberia.
Mind Matters: TONY BUZAN with news of some current developments in psychology.
Far from the Madding Crowd (8)
Story: Washing Day by ELIZABETH WADE
All Kinds of Men by IVOR WILSON
' The Flights we have here are replacement crews, mostly fresh from training schools.
They have a lot to Team in a week or two ... the days of the polished professional are over. From now on, we make do with what we've got.'
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester
From gardeners to ghost hunters; from poets to pop stars; from cantors to crime-writers. Jack de Manio meets them all. Could you be on h,is list? Producer JENNY DE YONG BBC Birmingham
4.9-4.5 News
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great
4: A Sterile Marriage
Presented by Brian Widlake
Take a Sparkling Pair
Peter Pratt with a collection and recollection of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Producer RONALD COOK
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
Written by WILLIAM SMETHURST (Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm) Cast for the week:
BBC Birmingham
The antidote to panel games to be taken in the form of Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and William Rushton with justice dispensed with by Humphrey Lyttelton in the Chair and music therapy by Colin Sell at the piano.
3: The Short Campaign of RQMS Brown
The Rt Hon
Mrs Shirley Williams , MP
Secretary of State for Education and Science and Pay-master General, in conversation with Mary Goldring
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
Anthony Smith , Francis Huxley and Elizabeth Mobius sample a. selection of travel books for the summer. Places covered range from the mysterious marshlands of Iraq. to the unostentatiously beautiful Scilly Isles.
Presenter Christopher Matthew Producer DAVID PERRY
John Tusa reporting
A selection of listeners' letters continuing the discussion in lasit Friday's Any Questions Introduced by DAVID JACOBS Producer ROY HAYWARD BBC Bristol
Marnie by WINSTON GRAHAM
Read by YSANNE CHURCHMAN (4)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
preceded by Weather