Producers LESLIE COTTINGTON and KEN POLLOCK
A note from Gerald Priestland
6.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Producer ANTHONY PARKIN BBC Birmingham
7.40 Today's Papers
with Norman Tozer
7.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Tony Lewis presents a magazine programme that highlights the personalities in the news and the issues that matter, including today's Rugby international matches. Plus up-to-the-minute coverage of the other events including news of the England cricket team in New Zealand. A Radio Sport and OB production
8.45 Today's Papers
Margaret Howard 's selection
Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
(Further editions: Mon 7.20 pm and Thurs 10.5 am)
NEM, p 118; Awake, my soul (BBC HB 403); Psalm 118, vv 13-24; Jeremiah 8, vv 5, 7, 11, 18-22 (nsv); Christian, unflinching (BBC HB 350)
Nigel Rees 's weekly look at the Press expands to cover magazines and he invites Graeme Andrews , Publisher of Campaign, the glossy advertising and media weekly; and Richard Boston , Editor of Vole, the new environmental monthly, to compare notes.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN
Parliamentarians discuss the week's business with Matthew Coady. Producer Bernard Tate
Presented by Peter Evans Producer GEOFF DEEHAN
(Repeated: Wednesday 9.0 pin)
as Radio 3
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
VHF Regional news and weather
Michael Heseltine , mp
Peter Parker. Germaine Greer Jonathan Steinberg
Chairman David Jacobs
The Post Office
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject. with the voices of TONY HANCOCK and ALAN SIMPSON SHELLEY BERMAN , ALAN BENNETT THE SCAFFOLD and LILY TOMLIN Producer SIMON BRETT
Commercial Break by TONY BILBOW
A comedy about the competitive world of advertising, which shows how a 'joke' radio commercial has surprising results.
Directed by GRAHAM GAULD
(Repeated: Tuesday 11.5 am)
(Richard Beckinsale is in 'I Love My Wife ' at the Prince jf Wales Theatre, London)
Marilyn Alan , with the help of guests in the studio, takes a look at some things that matter to disabled people, from the big issues to hints about daily living. There's a chance after the programme for listeners to put their own views forward by phoning on [number removed]from
3.30 to 4.30.
Producer MARLENE PEASE
as Radio 3
Paul Vaughan makes a selection from the books, plays, films, music and other arts reviewed during the past week. Editor ROSEMARY HART
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Musical interludes by JEREMY NICHOLAS
Producer MICHAEL EMBER
Christopher Grier with records (Shortened edn: Thurs 9.5 am)
Saul Among the Prophets A play for radio by RICHARD BRAYSHAW with Jack Watling as Ronald Cruikshank
In his spare time Cruikshank, a public school headmaster, compiles crossword puzzles for a national newspaper. Whitehall and the police are very interested in yesterday's crossword - either Cruikshank can foretell the future or he is the most sensational spy since Mata Hari.
Directed by JOHN CARDY BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Monday 3.5 pm)
Another chance to hear a selected edition from this series. with Leslie Phillips
Stephen Murray. Jon Pertwee A chronicle of events aboard HMS Troutbridge
Written by LAWRIE WYMAN and involving
RICHARD CALDICOT, HEATHER CHASEN RONNIE BARKER , TENNIEL EVANS and MICHAEL BATES
Announcer RONALD FLETCHER Producer
ALASTAIR SCOTT JOHNSTON (First broadcast in 1966) (A new comedy series with Leslie Phillips starts next Sunday at 10.2 pm Radio 2)
Second of two talks by Richard Keen
Why the growing passion for visiting ruins? The Parthenon, for all the battering it's had from Christians, Turks, connoisseurs and tourists, still looks like a temple; but at other places to which visitors flock, imagination has to do most of the work. And was the art of Disney really invented in prehistoric Crete?
Evening prayers led by COLIN SEMPER
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
