Producers
ROBIN HICKS and BRYAN PLATT
with David Firth
6.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
with Ken Ford
BBC Manchester
7.40 Today's Papers
with Norman Tozer
7.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Tony Lewis presents this magazine programme which highlights the Fifth and Final Test between England and Australia at The Oval and the world rowing championships in Amsterdam.
A Radio Sport and OB production
8.45 Today's Papers
4: I've Eaten some. Strange Food in my Time
Ren6 Cutforth looks back on his career as a correspondent. Producer PETER DE ROSA
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Margaret Howard 's selection
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Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
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NEM, p 34; Stand up (BBC HB 268); Psalm 114; I Corinthians 14, vv 13-19 and 27-28 (rsv); Ye holy angels (BBC HB 286)
medium only with Nigel Rees
Producer ANNE SLOMAN
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Anthony King continues his conversations with politicians. 4: The Rt Hon John Davies , mp Producer ANNE SLOMAN
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as Radio 3
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker also featuring TERENCE BRADY and PAULINE YATES , with GORDON LANGFORD at the piano and DICK ABELL - guitar
The lines have been contributed by many writers - and selected from past editions of this award-winning series.
Producer JOHN FAWCETT WILSON (Repeated: Thursday 7.45- pm)
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An hour's miscellany of chat, fact and fiction with Jill Burridge and Norman Tozer And David Ashford reads the second of six stories by RUTH RENDELL
2: People Don't Do Such Thingt Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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Only a Matter of Time
medium only: as Radio 3
Presented by Gordon Clough
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Robert Bolt introduces a selection of his favourite verse and prose. Readers MICHAEL BRYANT and ROHAN MCCULLOUGH Producer BRIAN PATTEN
BBC Bristol
(Michael Bryant is a National Theatre player)
Dannie Abse, the poet, chooses the records he would take to a desert island and discusses them with Roy Plomley, who devised the programme.
(Repeated: Tuesday 12.27 pm)
Christopher Grier with listeners' record requests
(Shortened edn; Thurs 9.5 am)
Nigel Anthony
Anna Calder-Marshall David March
Margaret Robertson and William Fox in I Want It Now
The novel by KINGSLEY AMIS adapted as a comedy for radio by FREDERICK BRADNUM
The late 60s. Ronnie Apple-yard is an up-and-coming television personality - a bright young man with his own chat show. At a fashionable party he meets young Simon Quick and. after a bad start, decides that she's the girl for him. Apart from her other assets, she's rich. But the course of true love - if that's what it is - has the proverbial vicissitudes.
Other parts played by ROD BEACHAM , MICHAEL HARBOUR Directed by BETTY DAVIES
A serial in eight episodes Author ISAAC ASIMOV Book 1: Foundation
3: The Merchant Princes
The Foundation's power and influence is spreading inwards from the rim of the Galaxy. The conflict between those who conquer by Trade and those who conquer by Religion is joined.
Encyclopedic read-out DAVID VALLA
Audio adaptation PATRICK TULL Directed by DAVID CAIN
BBC Radiophonic Workshop (First broadcast in 1973)
Evening meditation with music led by FR JIM SKELLY
BBC Northern Ireland
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude