Producers LESLIE COTTINGTON and KEN POLLOCK
A note from Gerald Priestland , Religious Affairs Correspondent
6.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Producer PATRICK CHALMERS BBC Aberdeen
7.40 Today's Papers
with Norman Tozer
7.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Presented live from Paris by Tony Lewis who captures the atmosphere in Paris on the morning of the opening match of the International Rugby Championship. with England meeting the champions France, at Pare des Princes. There's also news of the other rugby international, Ireland v Scotland in Dublin; England's cricket team in Pakistan; plus up-to-the-minute coverage of the other events at home and abroad.
A Radio Sport and OB production
8.45 Today's Papers
Margaret Howard 's selection
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
(Further edns: Monday 7.20 pm and Thursday 10.5 am)
New Every Morning, p 50; Lord Christ, who on thy heart didst bear (BBC HB 380); Psalm S9; Acts 2. vv 37-47 (NEB): 0 thou not made with hands (BBC HB 180)
Review: page 70
Nigel Rees 's weekly look at the press expands to cover magazines and he invites
Andrew Knight , Editor of The Economist, and Bonnie Angelo , London Bureau Chief of Time, to compare notes.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Matthew Coady
Producer BERNARD TATE
Presented by Geoff Watts Producer DAVID PATERSON
as Radio 3
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
A spontaneous discussion by Anna Raeburn , John Hume Lord Kearton
The Rt lion John D. Taylor Chairman David Jacobs from Northern Ireland Producer CAROLE stone
Air Travel
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject
' They say that when you are going faster than sound you can't hear what anyone says to you until the words catch up with you. There was a case on Concorde recently where a bloke said to an air hostess " Could 1 ... ? " and by the time she'd heard him, he had.' and the voices of BOB NEWHART SHELLEY BERMAN. BILL COSBY MICHAEL FLANDERS WILLIAM RUSHTON
JOHN CLEESE and DAVID HATCH
Producer SIMON BRETT
Talking of Michelangelo by MICHAEL KITTERMASTER clive: As for friends ... think you are the only one I have.
NORMA: Maybe that's progress. Who said that a woman is first an agreeable acquaintance, then a mistress, and only finally a friend?
Directed by GERRY JONES (First broadcast in 1975)
Marilyn Alan. with the help of guests in the studio, takes a look at some things that matter to disabled people. After the programme, listeners can put their own views by phoning [number removed]from 3.30 to 4.30. Producer MARLENE PEASE
Recent evidence suggests that the Holy Shroud of Turin - a piece of cloth which has been preserved in Turin Cathedral for four centuries-may indeed be the shroud which wrapped the body of Jesus. If it is, then it provides unique historical evidence, and the only authentic portrait of the face of Christ. Follow.ng an international conference last autumn in London, Bernard Jackson examines the historical and scientific evidence for and against the shroud's authenticity.
Producer DAVID WINTER
Michael Smee explores and illustrates some major developments in the technique of radio and its effect on the nature and style of broadcasting.
Contributions from george dixon , JANE FINNIS , GEOFFREY MANUEL , NESTA PAIN, EDWARD PAWLEY , R. D. SMITH , DAVID STRIPP and DESMOND briscoe. Quotations from the writings of LANCE SIEVEKING and DONALD MCWHINNIE spoken by OLWEN GRIFFITHS , SEAN ARNOLD and TONY MCEWAN.
Illustrations from the BBC Sound Archives. Realised at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop by PETER HOWELL. Producer DESMOND BRISCOE (Revised repeat)
A special report from today's Liberal Assembly in Blackpool. Presented by Gordon Clough
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Musical punctuations by INSTANT SUNSHINE
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Christopher Grier with records (Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Dramatised for radio by Michael Hardwick.
An American is found dead in an empty house in the Brixton Road. Inspector Gregson of Scotland Yard is puzzled. He consults Mr Sherlock Holmes, a rather eccentric young gentleman who, together with J. H. Watson MD, has recently taken up residence at 221B Baker Street.
BBC Birmingham
(First broadcast in 1974)
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
Another chance to hear a selected edition from this series. Written by FRANK MUIR and DENIS NORDEN starring
Dick Bentley. Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield
With WALLAS EATON, THE KEYNOTES BBC REVUE ORCHESTRA conductor HARRY RABINOWITZ Producer CHARLES MAXWELL (First broadcast in 1959)
Munich and Vienna
Last of three talks in which the novelist and critic Joseph Hone draws a picture of Europe today: journeying from the Germanic north to the romantic south. What can Britain learn from the European experience and in what ways should we unite in the future?
An evening meditation led by STEPHEN WHITTLE BBC Manchester
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
