Two hours of news and views from home and the world.
Introduced by John Timpson with LIBBY PURVES
7.0. 8.9 Today's News
ReadbypeterDonaldson
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
A chance for network listeners to hear some of the material from local and regional broadcasting. selected and presented by Bob Langley. Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
Jeremy Siepmann follows the colourful progress of the piano from the palaces of 18th-century Europe to the saloons of the Wild West. The Salonistes
In this week's programme the piano comes of age in the salons of the aristocracy. Liszt and Chopin make their mark and the concert business grows apace.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON
new, p 13; Jesu, grant me this, I pray (BBC HB 517); Psalm 103, vv 1-13: Luke 9, w 18-27 (NEB); Give to our God immortal praise (BBC BB 6)
A Very Private Smile by BRENDA BYRON
Read by Geoffrey Matthews Producer JANE MARSHALL BBC Birmingham
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
From the BBC Sound Archives, advice on the perils of dining out, by Somerset Maugham and James Stephens.
Presenters Sue Cook and George Luce
Editor DENNIS LOWER
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
Introduced from Northern Ireland
MARGARET PERCY , HELEN MADDEN and BARRY COWAN visit Ulster's lakeland in the west of the province where they meet some of the people who live and work in County Fermanagh as well as talking to holiday, makers from further afield. BBC Northern Ireland
2.4-2.2 News
The Hall in the Field (7)
Story:The Wishing Birdby ANNL ENGLISH
Presenters ALISON MCMORLAND and SAM KELLY
Written by MOIRA HERITAGE Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
Miracle at Tubbernanog by FREDERIC MULLALLY
Dramatised for radio by EDWARD MARSH with and, isn't it desertin' from the British Army he is? And sure hasn't he the strength of ten men? And isn't Fixer goin' to paint him black and flog him as a wrestler to an Eye-tallan millionaire? And doesn't he look lovely in his white satin briefs spangled with diamante shamrocks made by French Nuns?
Colleens and Floozies MAUREEN DOWandAINGEAL CREHAN
Musical Director JOHN ANDERSON Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
It is already a decade since Dr Christiaan Barnard carried out the first human heart transplant. How do the hopes and fears expressed at the time. look with the hindsight of ten years?
Reporter ROGER MAYNARD Producer JOHN EDWARDS
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (5)
Presented by Gordon Clough Editor DEREK LEWIS
We all have niggling little questions in the corners of our minds that we mean to follow up some day.... when we have the time. Now you can unload your query onto Neil Landor and let the BBC Reference Library and other experts find the answer for you.
Questions, on postcards, to: Enquire Within, BBC, London W1A 4WW
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Barry Norman
A weekly look at the problems and the personalities in the world of travel and transport.
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Margaret Howard 's selection Producer BRIAN DEAN
A personal portrait
The American Involvement in Vietnam
Presented by Michael Charlton ' We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to ensure the survival and the success of liberty.' (PRESIDENT KENNEDY) 4: The New Frontiersmen Hold the Line
Eisenhower bequeaths the ' chaos in Laos ' to his successor. But why does President Kennedy accept the advice of the Taylor/Rostow mission and send military advisers to Vietnam?
Contributions from GEORGE BALL ,WILLIAM BUNDY ,WILLIAM COLBY. ROGER HILSMAN , AMBASSADOR FRITZ NOLTING , DEAN RUSK. GENERAL MAXWELL TAYLOR and ADAM YtRMOLINSKY .
Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF (First broadcast on Radio 3)
At the Lambeth Conference today the bishops have been debating the future of the Anglican Communion. GERALD PRIESTLAND reports from Canterbury.
Presenter Paul Gambaccini Producer JOHN BOUNDY
Douglas Stuart reporting Editor ALASTAIR OSBORNE
An invitation to begin a seven-week ramble through the adventures, calamities and miscalculations of A Little Night
Exposure - a band of performing vagabonds.
This week: In The Beginning ... A tale of derivation, genesis and birth.
Other parts played by CHRISTOPHER M. PILKINGTON Script, music and lyrics by A Little Night Exposure
Producer DANNY GREENSTONE
(Repeated: Saturday 5.30 pm)
Address to the Barnoldswict Literary, Scientific and Burial Club. Written and read by JIM ANDREW. BBC Manchester
A House for Mr Biswas (10)
followed by an interlude
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
