with Laurie Macmillan
with John Sergeant
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Summer Motoring
Taking your car with you on hoHday can add a lot of fun as well as giving a pleasant feehng of independence - provided you don't break down, of course! But if you're still unlucky, you may be able to deal with a few minor troubles on the spot - that is if you've brought the right tools and basic spares. If you'd like some tips on how to make your summer motoring more of a success - whether it's coping with an emergency on the road, do-it-yourself repairs, navigating or simply keeping the kids amused - call the motoring experts Richard Hudson-Evans and Sue Baker. In (he Chair Judith Chalmers Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
The lines are open from 8.0 am
Birds
Derek Jones introduces the BBC WEST OF ENGLAND SINGERS conductor PHILIP MOORE BBC Bristol
NEM, p 106; Dear Shepherd of thy people, hear (BBC HB 259); Psalm 23: Acts 12. vv 11-25 (NEB); Father all-seeing, friend of aU creation (BBC HB 385)
The Passenger by SEAN LINDEY
Read by Martin Jarvis
M One, M Two. M Three by GEOFFREY HUBBARD
A political comedy, set some time in the future, with the British Government under severe pressure to solve its economic problems. A wily civil servant decides that the only answer is to stop printing money and devise a new system of barter - but he falls foul of his own measures.... It's getting very difficult. I tried to offer my services as washer-up to pay for my lunch, and the manager said he didn't use the professional classes - the breakages were too high.'
Other parts played by BILL MONKS , HENRY KNOWLES and GAVIN CAMPBELL
Directed by CHERRY COOKSON
(Tony Britton is in ' Murder Among Friends ' at the Comedy Theatre, London)
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Presented by Brian Wldlake
Introduced by Sylvia Horn
Life in the Dockyard: NICK HUGHES spends a day with the dockers of Ellesmere Port near Liverpool.
2.0-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Not Just a Bit of Old Adam!: MOLLY PRICE-OWEN greets the Women's Lib magazine Spare Rib on its sixth birthday.
Knock, Knock, Who's There t: BRENDA KIDMAN Visits TIM AND joy KEOGH who live on a barge. Airs Above the Ground (7)
Story: Wriggly Worm's Holiday by EUGENIE SUMMERFIELD
medium only from 3.5
medium only
Live from the House of Commons. Todays scene is set by David Holmes , the BBC's Political Editor.
medium only
(Shortened 's broadcast at 10.30 am)
KENNETH FORD invites FRED LOADS BILL SOWERBUTTS and CLAY JONES to answer questions which listeners have sent in by post. BBC Manchester
Questions, on postcards, to: Gardeners' Question Time, BBC, Woodhouse Lane , Leeds LS2 9PX
Wynford Vaughan-Thomas walks from Llanuwchllyn to Pontyr-Afon-Gam.
Presented by Brian Widlake
Signing On
David Rider considers the mystique of the signature tune, the musical key which so often opens the door on radio and television as well as in the cinema and the theatre. Producer RAY ABBOTT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
'twixt Eleanor Summerfield Gillian Reynolds and David Nixon. Tim Rice Tune Twisters from Steve Race
In the Chair Roy Plomley Devised and written by Ian Messiter
Producer Martin Fisher
(Repeated: Thursday 12.27 pm)
(Repeated: Wednesday 1.30 pm)
Christopher Ricks looks at 11: Dramatic Monologues
Including poems by Browning and T. S. Eliot
Reader HUGH DICKSON
American novelist, essayist and wit Gore Vidal in conversation with MICHAEL BILLINGTON about his life and work. Gore Vidal s novels range from political tales of power and corruption like Washington DC, to the sexual satire of Myra Breckenridge, and his latest apocalyptic comedy about the end of the world, Kalki.
Producer ANNE WINDER Preview: page 17
Part 1: as Radio 3 followed by an interlude
Picture restoring Is still in many cases literally a matter of spit and polish, but there have been great scientific developments in bringing old masters back to life. The world's major art galleries now use equipment from lasers to nuclear reactors to examine and restore paintings. These studies are providing new insight into the way artists worked and are revealing new facts about paintings, as well as helping to identify fakes more easily.
Presented by James Wilkinson , BBC Science Correspondent A Radio News production
Presenter Edwin Mullins Producer JOHN POWELL
John Tusa reporting
The last seven days put in a questionable way by Barry Norman to Alan Coren
Richard Ingrams Frank Johnson and Margaret Howard Newsreader JOHN MARSH
Producers DANNY GREENSTONE and JOHN LLOYD
Out of Africa (7)
Radio 4's International Bust-ness Report; Market Trends
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
