News, weather, papers, sport
From Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. BRYAN PLATT previews this week's Royal Show. BBC Birmingham
What Britain is getting up to. Two hours of news and views from home and around the world.
Introduced by Brian Redhead With LIBBY PURVES ' including at
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by JOHN MARSH
7.30. 8.30 News headline*
Moira Stuart looks ahead to the highlights of the next seven days.
reflects on life in and out of the BBC Sound Archives.
(Repeated: Thursday 8.30)
Dr Rob Buckman, Mavis Nicholson and Kenneth Robinson , together with their guests in the studio, provide the incentive to face Monday morning once again as they discuss some of the forthcoming week's topical issues and interview some of the personalities who will be making the news.
Producer IAN R. GARDHOUSE
The first Monday in the month - so the special edition filled with topics suggested by you, the listener - your favourite wildlife sounds - extracts from your letters. Also the competition - and what to look out for in the coming month.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer JOHN HARRISON BBC Bristol
(Repeated: Thursday 3.35 pm medium only)
NEM. p 21: Jesu, the very thought of thee (BBC HB 322); Canticle 9; Luke 2, vv 40-52 (NEB); Ye servants of God, your master proclaim (BBC HB 287)
Sports Mad by MARTIN ROBINSON Read by Peter Craze
' Whenever I hear the expression " He's sports mad" I have to laugh. I know that I am the only person who knows what the phrase really means! '
Producer MITCH RAPER
In the week that marks the 30th anniversary of the National Health Service. Paul Ferris goes to Tredegar, the home town of its founder, Aneurin Bevan.
(Full details: Thursday 7.45)
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
A nationwide general knowledge contest in which listener* compete to become this year's Brain of Britain.
Chairman Robert Robinson Second Round
19: South of England
ROSEMARY DARBY (Oxfordshire), schoolteacher; GEOFFREY MAR wood (Sussex), retired school-master; KATHLEEN WILLIAMS (Hampshire); ANNE ADAMS (Berkshire)
Plus Beat the Brains in which listeners put their own questions to the contestants. Programme devised by JOHN P. WYNN , who, with IAN GILLIES , set the questions. Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
(Repeated: Thursday 6.30 pm)
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Robert Williams
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two: a discussion on a matter of current concern.
2.1-2.2 News
Reading Your Letters.
Entertainment Round-up: GORDON gow reporting.
Gentle Words for the Gentle Sex: GILLIAN STRICKLAND with her monthly review of newly published women's magazines. Now Barabbas Was a Rotter (4)
Story: The Little Fairy Shoe-maker by ELIZABETH FERRIER
Before the Screaming Begins by WALLY K. DALY
The Terrific Kemble
A Victorian Self Portrait from the writings of Fanny Kemble Edited by ELEANOR RANSOME abridged in five parts and produced by JOHN KNIGHT Read by Sarah Badel (1)
' I went a couple of nights since to a little party ... I met everyone, including the terrific Kemble herself, whose splendid handsomeness of eye, nostril and mouth were the best things in the room.' (HENRY JAMES: December 18721 Fanny Kemble was the niece of John Philip Kemble and Mrs Siddons. Scott, Tennyson and Thackeray were among her admirers. In America her fame rests on her passionate abhorrence of slavery. Her journals, letters and memoirs were first published 100 years ago and vividly reflect the contemporary scene during a life which spanned almost the whole of the 19th century.
Presented by Robert Williams
Barry Fantoni goes to the Archive Auction.
An imaginary sale of the BBC's Sound Archives attracts BARRY FANTONI to browse through the catalogue and choose the recordings he would most like to own.
Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
starring Bryan Pringle
A comedy serial in eight episodes by ANDREW LYNCH 6: The Mayor's Parlour
The Hargreaves family has been invited by Greasy Maurice to lunch at the Town Hall.
Producer BOB OLIVER ROGERS BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Wednesday 12.27)
(Repeated: Tuesday 1.30 pm)
Pearl. A play about a play within the play by JOHN ARDEN with Elizabeth Bell. Peter Jeffrey, David Calder. Music composed by STEPHEN BOXER
'I find nowt now in the whole of England fit for the tip of my pen. We spoke once to the whole people. But these days we have rejected the home-spun jackets, the square-toed shoes, and the forth right word of the godly tradesmen. And by God, they've rejected us. There are those in Parliament have said openly they'd close down every playhouse if they once attained full power. And I want them to attain full power.'
TURNER (crumhorns, flutes, recorders). EPHRAIM SEGERMAN (viols, cittern, lute), BILL NICKSON (percussion), STEPHEN BOXER (psaltery, lyre, dulcimer)
Directed by ALFRED BRADLEY
BBC Manchester
Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Scottish architect who gave his name to a style of building and design that emphasised elegance and classical painting. Patrick Nuttgens. Director, Leeds Poly-technic. looks for the core of his imagination, not just in his buildings, but in the whole body of his work.
Producer GREVILLE HAVENHAND
(Repeated: Thursday 11.45 am)
Presented by Michael Oliver Producer CARROLL MOORE
Douglas Stuart reporting with voices and opinions from around the world
(Full details: Tues 11.35 am)
The Secret Agent by JOSEPH CONRAD
Abridged and read in 14 parts by Gavin Campbell
Based on an actual attempt in 1894 to blow up the Greenwich Observatory, this ' simple tale ' of anarchists and revolutionaries follows the hapless Verloc deeper into the mesh of his own making.
Producer MAURICE LEITCH
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
