with Eugene Fraser
English Regions: see column 5
8.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Brian Redhead in Manchester and Derek Cooper in London
with Eugene Fraser
7.52 VHF
Regional news and weather
Derek Cooper in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
by COLETTE (3)
The Love Affair of the Century 2: 1914-1930 Any Colour You Like, So Long as it's
Black PERCY KIDNER , LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU, GEORGES ROESCH and SIR MILES THOMAS look back to the War, the Slump, Morris and Ford, the 1100 car and the birth of mass motoring. Written and narrated by Brian Robins
Producer JOHN HASLAM
Presented by Harriet Cass Producer STUART SIMON
NEM, p 102; 0 splendour of God's glory bright (BBC HB 409); Psalm 147, vv 1-12; Mark 4, vv 30-41 (RSV); 0 worship the king (BBC HB 471)
Today's author is o. HENRY Michael Kilgarriff reads The Guilty Party
Last summer Brenda Kidman 's mother died from an illness caused by senility. In despair at her inability to save her and in frustration with the National Health Service, she recorded on tape the last few months of their lives together.
Producer HUGH PURCELL
Gabriel Woolf reads
5: Early ' Letters from America '
Rights and Responsibilities
Edition. Presenter Nancy Wise
Beetles and Buckman and Sheridan Morley
3: A Tale of One and a Bit Cities in which Plantagenet Soppy becomes enmeshed in the French Revolution, but somehow manages to keep his head. NARRATOR: Round that ghastly machine sat a row of gap-toothed hags ...
Rup: What are they doing Master Soppy? soppy: Can't be sure from this distance, but it looks like an Arran sweater. Written by ROB BUCKMAN and CHRIS BEETLES
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS
BBC Manchester (B'cast Mon)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Introduced by Brian Widlake
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Guest of the Week:
Lord Brockway - pacifist and Parliamentarian.
2.0-2.2 News
Leanline Cookery: HEATHER FORMAINI visits a class for people who want to lose weight. If I had a Sabbatical ... MAUREEN STEVENS would take 0-level Maths and Physics.
From Dancing Master Kit to Walking Stick Fiddle: SUSAN BAKER plays some unusual members of her violin collection. The Princess
Priscilla's Fortnight (3)
Story: The Jubilee Worm by CAROLYN FREWER
Trouble brewing: a comedy for radio by JOAN SADLER with Nicolette McKenzie and Gordon Clyde
A life of travel promoting ' the finest beer ' is the perfect recipe for a broken marriage - but George will go to any lengths to get Diana back....
Directed by MARGARET ETALL
Jack Brymer dips into his fund of stories about music: records
Excellent Women (8)
Presented by Brian Widlake
At My Leisure
Gwyn Thomas considers some of the personal pleasures that survived the trials of life. Producer DENYS GUEROULT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news; weather
Including Financial Report
A series of four programmes in which Magnus Magnusson investigates some of the strands and threads in the history of Ireland, with the evidence of the people who lived it and created it.
2: The Protestant Ascendancy 1693-1890
1 love the Roman Catholic. I am a friend to his liberty but only inasmuch as his liberty is entirely consistent with your ascendancy and the strength and freedom of the protestant community.
(HENRY GRATTAN)
With JIM NORTON , KEVIN FLOOD PADDY STEPHENS ,
ANTHONY NEWLANDS , MICHAEL HARBOUR and GAVIN CAMPBELL
Producer HELEN FRY
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)
In a unique set of recordings, drawn from the BBC Sound Archives, several great figures from the past are recalled by people who were fortunate enough to meet them.
2: His Highness Aga Khan III remembers
Florence Nightingale
by Dostoevsky
Translated, adapted and performed by Boris Isarov
"A Dostoevsky black comedy; translated by Russian emigre actor Boris Isarov. A drunken writer wanders into a grave-yard, hears a symphony of surrounding voices: they are the chattering corpses and Isarov plays them all." (Anne Karpf, The Observer)
"He gives an astonishing performance, his mass of voices transforming life into a grasping ludicrous, hypocritical metaphor of something no longer all-important." (Peter Vansittart, The Times)
(Stereo & Quad)
(First broadcast on Radio 3)
(A quadraphonic broadcast using Matrix H, compatible for both stereo and mono receivers)
Presented by Jacky Gillott
9.59 Weather
John Tusa reporting
Mstislav Rostropovich
A musical portrait of the great Russian cellist introduced by Edward Greenfield gramophone records
Tender is the Night (8)
3: Brecht - songs from her famous one-woman show and memories of friendships with Lotte Lenya and Michael Dress.
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
