Introduced by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES
7.0. 8.0 Today's News Read by HARRIET CASS
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
Presented by Bob Langley Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Presented by Jeremy Siepmann The Boom Begins
In today's instalment, Mozart conquers ' Pianoland ', and Beethoven asks for more. Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
NEM. p 110: Help us to help each other (BBC HB 378); Psalm 16; Luke 8, vv 9-21 (NEB); Love, unto thine own (BBC HB 523)
Limbo by MARY LAVIN Read by Trudy Kelly
Producer JUDITH ELLIOTT BBC Northern Ireland
Bridget Boland shares some of the gardening wisdom she and her sister learnt from country men and women - the sort you don't find in modern scientific books - that gets passed down from one generation to another.
Producer HELEN FRY
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough
Introduced from Birmingham by Maureen Staffer
The End of the Affair: what happens when a romance is over? Is breaking up hard to do?
2.0-2.2 News
Centenary Spin: cyclists JOHN AND DOTTY PINKERTON are preparing to emulate an epic jouraey from West Bromwich to Harrogate.
A Taste of Summer: hotelier MICHAEL CLEMENTS gives JOCELYN RYDER-SMITH some seasonal recipes.
BBC Birmingham
The Hall in the Field (2)
Story: The Witch o/ Goodbody's Patch by ivy o. EASTWICK Presenters JOAN MATHESON and JAMES THOMASON
Written by MARY HAYDON
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Pope Joan Lives by BRUCE STEWART , with Anna Calder -Marshall as Sister
Andrea Meg Jenkins as Mother Lucy Sister Andrea , working on a research grant, has produced compelling evidence that Pope Joan , the one and only female Pope, was not mere legend, but really existed. When Sister Andrea requests ecclesiastical permission to publish her findings, her manuscript is turned down. Determined to fight the decision, she is made to realise the serious implications.
Historical research by JOAN MORris . Directed by DAVID SPENSER
as recorded in the unpublished diaries of Ellen Palmer with Judi Bowker as Ellen Narrator Stephen Thorne
Note from Archy. 'I I fly like a moth into the flame that burns me. Ellen, I cannot live without you. What am I to do? ' In 1854 Ellen Palmer went sightseeing in the Crimea. The war was still going on. While she was there, she fell in love with Archy Peel , a nephew of the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel. The course of their affair is described in dramatic and touching detail in Ellen's diary, discovered only in 1973 at the back of an old bureau in a house in North Wales, and made public now for the first time. Compiled by BETTY ASKwith. Producer ALAN HAYDOCK (Judi Bowker is a National Theatre player)
A Week of H. G. Wells 5: The Purple Pileus
Presented by Gordon Clough
Unload your query onto Neil Lanuor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Address: Enquire Within, BBC, London W1A 4WW
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Travel with Barry Norman Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Margaret Howard 's selection. Producer JOHN KNIGHT
(Repeated: Saturday 10.30 am)
A personal portrait
The American Involvement in Vietnam
Presented by Michael Charlton 3: Creating a State - South Vietnam
Vietnam is divided at the 17th parallel and, in the aftermath of French withdrawal and the Geneva Conference, the primary western influence is again American. Contributions from ROBERT BOWIE , WILLIAM COLBY , GENERAL TRAN VAN DON , JOHN FAIRBANK , SENATOR FULBRIGHT. NGUYEN CAO KY, GENERAL ED LANSDALE, SENATOR MANSFIELD, HO THONG MINH, DEAN RUSK and SIR ROBERT THOMPSON.
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (First broadcast on Radio 3)
Presenter Jim Hiley Producer JOHN BOUNDY
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
David Jason. Bill Wallis. David Tate , Sheila Steafel and the keyboards of Bill McGuffie By ANDY HAMILTON , BARRY PILTON , JOHN LANGDON , RICHARD QUICK Producer CRIFF RHYS JONES
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
My Dresser, Elsie. Written and read by LYNDA MARCHAL BBC Manchester
A House for Mr Biswas (5)
followed by an interlude
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
