Introduced by Brian Redhead and Frank Delaney
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
by CHARLES DICKENS (S)
Talking Point
Discussing listeners' queries and comments about wildlife and the countryside.
Introduced by Derek Jones Producer MOIRA MANN BBC Bristol
Questions to: Talking Point, The Living World, BBC, Bristol BSS 2LR
Sir John Betjeman introduces some well-known hymns and talks about their words - and music. with the LONDON EMMANUEL CHOIR conducted by MURIEL SHEPHERD ) Research by BERNARD C. MARTIN Producer DAVID WINTER
Presenter Brian Perkins Producer STUART SIMON
NEM, p 30; To Christ, the Prince of Peace (BBC HB 94); Psalm 31; Luke 9, vv 37-50 (NEB); We saw thee not when thou didst come (BBC HB 74)
The Well by REARDEN CONNER Read by Denys Hawthorne
Sue MacGregor meets the conductor. Sir Georg Solti. Musical Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, to talk about his life and work and to invite him to reflect a little on both. Producer GILLIAN HUSH BBC Manchester
People in the British Isles and abroad tell of the doings and concerns of their own part of the world and those they visit. Producer PADDY O'KEEFFE
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Barbara Myers
Introduced by Sue
MacGregor Guest of the Werk: Dr Ann Birchall , director of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum.
2.1-2.2 News
The Clapham Khartoum Connection.': CHRISTABEL KING has discovered a Sudanese clothes mecca - in South London. Reading Your Letters.
Close Your Eyes and Fantasise With ARTHUR MARSHALL , BA MASON and KENNETH ROBINSON The Rector's Daughter (2)
Story: The Elephant Who Didn't Like Baths by JANEY GORDON and PETER ASHLEY
Leaning on Alice by DOROTHY GHARBAOUI with and Don't you see, Paul is the way he is because I encouraged him to think he could always lean on me. I got him out of all his difficulties, even with women.... God! Did I ever tell you? He used to pass them on to me to straighten them out when he was tired of it.'
Directed by ROBERT COOPER BBC Northern Ireland
from Canterbury Cathedral, sung by a choir of young men and boys from churches, schools. and colleges affiliated to the Royal School of Music.
Responses (Martin Neary ); Psalms: 47, 48, 49 (Smart. How Lessons: Jeremiah 30, vv 12-22; Matthew 13, vv 1-23; Canticles (Harwood in A flat); Anthem: Arise, shine, for your light has come (William Mathias ). Director of the Choir MARTIN HOW. Organist JONATHAN REES-WILLIAMS
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (8)
Presented by Barbara Myers
Looking at the lighter side of life this week, Vincent Kane reports on another important judgment in the High Court from Mr Justice Be Jiggered: in verse an In Memoriam on the first anniversary of the death of Victor the giraffe: and he reviews a number of books on the great drought of 1976.
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report
A musical quiz devised by EDWARD J. MASON and TONY SHRYANE
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge
Ian Wallace and Denis Nordea In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE. BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Thursday 1.30 pm)
Writers and travellers consider some of the pleasures and perils of their journeys.
This week: Francis Huxley , Robin Hanbury-Tenison and John Hemming discuss their reactions to encounters with primitive peoples in different parts of the world.
Chairman Christopher Matthew Producer DENYS GUEROULT
by PAULINE SPENDER
The story of Jane Digby who searched restlessly for true and lasting love and finally found it in the desert as the wife of a Bedouin Chief. with Prunella Scales as Jane and Christian Roberts as her brother Edward
Other parts played by CHRISTOPHER SCOULAR , MARGOT BOYD , PHILIP VOSS , WOLF KAHLER, ANDREW SACHS , JOHN GABRIEL. JENNIFER PIERCEY , ABI GOUHAD.
EVE KARPF, BRENDA KAYE , PETER WILLIAMS , ROBERT TROTTER and ANTHONY NEWLANDS
Directed by CHRISTOPHER VENNING followed by an interlude
Presenter Tony Palmer Producer BRIAN BARFIELD
Douglas Stuart reporting
Round 1:
London v West of England London:
Anthony Quinton (Chairman) with Irene Thomas and Professor John B. Mays West of England:
Gordon Clough (Chairman) with Lord Foot and Jessica Mann
Question researcher BERNICE COL'PE
Producer TREYOR HILL BBC Manchester
A House for Mr Biswas (13)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
