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 issues that matter including news of New Zealand v England on the second dav of the First Test in Wellington. A Radio Sport and OB production
8.45 Today's Papers
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Margaret Howard 's selection
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Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
nf.m, p 13: Behold the amazing gift (BBC HB 484); Psalm 66, vv 1-3, 12-17: Wisdom of Solomon 2, vv 10-22; Love of the Father iBBC HB 522)
' New York is a newspaper town again.' In the first of two reports from across the Atlantic. Nigel Rees talks to newspaper men at the front line of an intense circulation war. 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 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news VHF Regional news and weather
Katharine Whitehorn
The Bishop of Mlddleton Patrick Hutber , Michael Barratt Chairman David Jacobs < Friday's broadcast)
Inventions
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject.
Q: What do you get if you cross a tambourine with a submarine?
A: The Salvation Navy.
And the voices of BOB NEWHART VICTOR BORGE , PETER COOK SPIKE MILLIGAN
MICHAEL FLANDERS AND DONALD SWANN , and JACK SHELDON Producer SIMON BRETT
by Aileen La Tourette
with Alan Dobie
'Why does everyone assume it's so much easier to leave than to be left? The one who is left has all the advantages.' Especially when they can write poetry - Veronica gives her view of the love affair in a poem which can be heard on the telephone. It's not a comfortable experience for Paul but he seems unable to resist the temptation to pick up the phone and dial that number.
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
fi.s Radio 3
Sheridan Morley 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
by Angela Penrose
Henry Knowles as Peter Bayley, Sarah Atkinson as Judith Hayes
Judith Hayes is a reporter sent to Africa by her magazine. The story she gets is not the one she went for. but her life will never be quite the same.
Only Three Can Play
Written and adapted for radio from their television series by PAULINE DEVANEY and EDWIN APPS starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon
William Mervyn as the Bishop Derek Nimmo as the Bishop's Chaplain John Barron as the Dean With ELIZABETH PROUD as Christine Buckley
SONIA FRASER as Mrs Buckley and EVA STUART as Granny Producer DAVID hatch
(First broadcast in 1971)
Michael Dean. writer and broadcaster. compares the mixed pleasures of life in New Zealand with his new life in London. 1: The East Cheam of the South Seas
Between Time and Eternity
David Winter introduces an interview with the late dr RUTH miller, a pioneer missionary doctor in Nepal, recorded shortly before her death.
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude