with Edward Cole
Headlines and weather, a look at the papers, news for sports fans, Prayer for the Day (Mon THEREVVERNONSPROXTON,TueS-ThurS CANON GORDON ALBION, Fri THE REV RICHARD HARRIES ), a little music and something on the lighter side.
English Regions: see column 5
6.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Nigel Rees in London look at Britain and the world this morning
with Edward Cole
Headlines, weather, sport and papers, a spot of music and Thought for the Day.
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Nigel Rees in London and Brian Redhead in Manchester Editor MIKE CHANEY
8.35 News headlines, weather papers and sport
abridged in ten episodes by ANN REES-JONES
Read by P. G. Stephens (1)
A classic account of a young boy's growth to early manhood on the great Blasket, ' a small truly Gaelic island which lies north-west off the coast of Kerry'. Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Fritz Spiegl and Mavis Nicholson.
Producer IAN GARDHOUSE
Mice got behind our gas cooker, and I caught several with a trap. Then one day I found the trap covered with insulating material taken from the back of the oven. I uncovered it and moved the trap, but it kept on happening-whyr We're sure you'll be waiting with ' baited ' breath for the team's answers to this and other wildlife questions.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 38; All hail the power of Jesus' name (BBC HB 118); Psalm 24; 1 Corinthians 15, vv 1-11 (RSV); Rejoice! the Lord is King (BBC HB 128)
David Jacobs introduces 75 minutes of Bank Holiday humour, music, quiz and poetry, with the help of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, Michael Bentine, John Betjeman, Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, Rod McKuen, Liza Minnelli, Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise, Ogden Nash and others.
Bernard Cribbins. Sheila Steafel Royce Mills and Brian Dee supply a selection of holiday songs and sketches written by ALASTAIR BEATON , with live visits to the Town and Country Festival at Stoneleigh and the Edinburgh Festival.
Producer MARTIN FISHER
A special edition for younger listeners ... from the Children's Farm at the Town and Country Festival, Stoneleigh. Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
Roy Plomley's castaway is poet Dannie Abse. Show more
Chairman Robert Robinson 27: Semi-Final (III)
MARTIN GOSTELOW (Dorset), photognapher; JOHN AKROYD (West Midlands), schoolmaster; BRIAN PEARCE (Hertfordshire), translator; TONY ELBRA (Cheshire), computer manager
Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , who also, with IAN GILLIES , sets the questions. Producer JOHN BRIDGES
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Gordon Clough
A special Bank Holiday edition presented by Kate O'Mara from the Town and Country Festival, Stoneleigh, including Talk Till Two: who has the best of the bargain, the country-liver or the urban dweller?
2.0-2.2 News
Reporters for the day include Percy Edwards, Ray Alan and Lord Charles, who will bring listeners all the fun of the Festival.
BBC Birmingham
"The Custody of Billy" by Jim McManus and Terry Wilson
Read by Jim McManus
Story: A Place for Everything by HERBERT MCKAY
by Simon Masters
with Douglas Blackwell as Carter and John Forrest as Toby Lisemore
When Collier calls at 28 Nadine Gardens and asks for Mr Shapiro, the landlady tells him that nobody of that name lives there. This is a surprise for Collier, but nothing to the surprise he is about to get.
(Repeat)
followed by an interlude
Twilight for the Gods (6)
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
Lord Fenner Brockway goes to the Archive Auction.
Producer GWYNETH HENDERSON
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
The Passing Day by GEORGE SHIELS , adapted for radio by Allan McClelland who also plays John Fibbs , with Marie Kean , Patrick Magee
Stephen Rea. Harold Goldblatt Denys Hawthorne , Kevin Flood ' I'm sure the last day with him was the busiest. As a man lives so he dies: we can only hope he spent it well.'
But did he spend it as ' well ' as his wife might hope? John Fibbs-shopkeeper , Ulsterman, miser and small-time gambler in shares - has come to his last day in business. He sees his doctor and visits his lawyer. On that day, John Fibbs discovers the value of his life - a value he hadn't accounted for.
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN BBC Northern Ireland
(Repeated: next Sun 2.30 pm) (Marie Kean is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
3: Tonypandy
The novelist Derek Robinson criss-crosses Britain and builds up a picture of the country. (Repeated: Thursday 11.45 am)
Presenter Michael Billington
Douglas Stuart reporting
People in the public mind
(Revised repeat: Tues 11.35 am)
A High Wind in Jamaica 11: Children's Games
Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn adapted from various anonymous versions and directed by Mr Roger Pine.
Maria Marten is perhaps the most famous of all the Victorian melodramas which filled the popular theatres throughout the country during the latter half of the last century. In this production - recorded at the Town and Country Festival at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire earlier today, under conditions very similar to those known to the original barn-storming companies - we present.
The pianist MR HAROLD RICH BBC Birmingham
Weather report and forecast
