with Peter Donaldson
John Sergeant in London
Brian Redhead in Manchester
with Peter Donaldson
Brian Redhead in Manchester John Sergeant in London
8.35 News headlines, weather, papers and sport
by EVELYN WAUGH (7)
Oh. Miserable Weed....
Despite being rejected by gardeners and nearly exterminated by farmers, most weeds are able to hold their own because they are so beautifully adapted to their opportunist way of life. Introduced by Peter Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
Bernard Falk has been off again to meet all kinds of people who have found the secret of happiness in unusual and sometimes eccentric occupations.
Presented by Edward Cole Producer BRYAN HARRIS
nem, p 25; It fell upon a summer day (BBC HB 71); Psalm 27. part 1; Acts 7, v 51-8, v 4 (NEB); 0 Jesus, I have promised (BBC HB 360)
Praises by ELIZABETH TAYLOR Read by Mary Wimbush
' It was an unfamiliar train she got into, and none of her regular friends was on it. In one single day her friends had vanished.'
A fresh look at the musical
Presented by Denis Quilley
Part 1 - Programme 4: Escape and Reality or How the Musical Discovered that Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
Six programmes about animal sounds
1: Men and Mammals
Eric Simms shows how the sounds made by mammals contrast with the highly varied sounds made by humans. Produced MICHAEL TOTTON
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breekon
starring Bryan Pringle
A comedy serial in eight episodes by ANDREW LYNCH 1: Miid and Batter Wilf 's hopes and aspirations are threatened by the opening of Uncle Sam's Chiperama.
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS BBC Manchester
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Brian Widlake
visits Oxford
City of Learning and Leyland where Sue MacGregor is joined by an assembly ranging from the Professor of Poetry to workers on the motor factory shop-floor. Helping to celebrate 100 years of higher education for women are
MICHAEL BARSLEY , SUSAN GOOD-MAN, JAN MORRIS , LIBBY PURVES and JOHN WAIN
Cucumber Sandwiches by J. I. M. STEWART abridged by PAT MCLOUGHLIN Read by Lockwood West
(Lockwood West is a National Theatre Player)
2.0 - 2.2 News
Story: "The Ice-cream Van Plays a Trick" by Eleanor Tims
A play set in North Auckland, New Zealand. Jack March served in the Western Desert during the war alongside the Maori Battalion. He was as tough as old boots then, and he still is, as capable of battle now as he ever was.
from Worcester Cathedral
Versicles and Responses (Kenneth Leighton): Psalms 147, 148, 149. 150 (Elgar, Bairstow, Atkins, Stanford)
Lessons: Isaiah 44, w 1-8; Revelation 22, vv 8-17
Canticles (Kenneth Leighton -Second Service); Anthem: Great is the Lord (Elgar) Master of the Choristers DONALD HUNT
Assistant Organist PAUL Trepti BBC Birmingham
A Question of Upbringing (3)
Presented by Brian Widlake
Vincent Kane gives some advice on how to secure a loan from your bank manager: a poem on the drop-outs commune - after Blake: and a hitherto unpublished short story - after Somerset Maugham. Written and produced by VINCENT KANE. BBC Wales
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
The quotations game in which Richard Gordon Hilary Pritchard Richard Stilgoe and Leslie Thomas are quizzed on sayings funny, famous and fatuous - taken from the printed page, the spoken word. and the handwritten letter from you, the listener.
Quotations read by Ronald Fletcher. Devised and presented by Nigel Rees Producer JOHN LLOYD
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm) Cast for the week:
Producer TONY SHRYANE BBC Birmingham
with Peter Oppenheimer and reports by STEVE BRAD-SHAW and DAVID HENSHAW. Editor MICHAEL GREEN BBC Manchester
in a programme on his life written by MAURICE CRANSTON Narrated by Nigel Anthony
The fame of Voltaire, who died 200 years ago this week, is based more on what he was than on what he wrote. A man of letters, a personality who captured the attention of people all over the western world, he did much to alter their attitude to life. An amusing, sprightly, skinny man, he organised campaigns on behalf of the victims of persecution and filled his own house with refugees. He took risks, both as writer and public figure.
With ANDREW BRANCH
BRENDA KAYE , ANTHONY NEWLANDS and PETER WICKHAM
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN
A nightly review of books, films, plays, broadcasting, music and exhibitions.
Presenter Michael Oliver
Producer Richard BANNERMAN
John Tusa reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
Radio
Frank Muir and Alfred Marks investigate the humour of the subject.
' You know, people are a menace with their transistor radios. Wherever you go, out into the country, on the beach, radios are blaring away. It's terrible, I can hardly hear myself playing my bagpipes.' and the voices of MICHAEL BENTINE , PETER SELLERS BENNY HILL , STAN FREBERG and THE MONTY PYTHON TEAM Producers SIMON BRETT and JOHN DAVIS
A Fearful Joy (8)
Radio 4's International Business Report; Market Trends
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
