News, weather, papers, sport
Introduced by Brian Redhead With HILARY OSBORN including at
7.0. 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30. 8.30 News headlines
by CHARLES DICKENS (4)
(A revised repeat of Saturday's broadcast at 7.30)
NEM, p 34; Christ the Lord Is risen! (BBC HB 100); Psalm 114; Luke 9, vv 51-62 (NEB); Sing alleluia (BBC HB 282)
The Shakespeare Tercentenary by EONA MACNICOL
Read by Marjorie Dalziel Producer ALLAN G. ROGERS BBC Scotland
Including today the BBC Shopping Basket
Presenters Nancy Wise and Bill Breckon
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Barbara Myen
Introduced by Sue MacGregor Talk Till Two: a discussion on a matter of current concern.
2.0-2.2 News
A Language of Their Own: LYNN TEN KATE finds out about Turkish embroidered scarves., The Pleasures of Plauing: VALERIE BOTWRIGHT and BRONWEN NAISH on the double-bass.
The Good Life - Orkney Style: RUTH WHEELER reports on her new life on Egilsay.
The Rector's Daughter (3)
Story: Kitten Katten 's Tea by ANNE WELLINGTON
by Graham England
with June Barrie as Nellie Speroni
From the Clerk of the Rural District Council: 'My Chairman feels that this problem family most properly fall, as clients, to the County Council. Mrs Speroni has ... more children than there are members of this housing committee. And this authority is as equipped to deal with the Speronis ... as it is a plague of frogs.'
Nellie and her family live in a small West Country town in a condemned property and are waiting to be rehoused. But there are delays and the reasons for these delays are not always clear.
(BBC Bristol)
(Stereo)
From gardeners to ghost-hunters. Jack de Manio meets them all. Could you be on his list? Producer SUSAN SNAILUM
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (9)
Presented by Barbara Myen
What's on at the Empire? Presented by Peter Pratt
While Gilbert and Sullivan reigned at The Savoy, what other entertainment delighted the Late Victorian and Edwardian public?
Producer ANTHONY SARGENT
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report
Written by WILLIAM SMETHURST (Repeated: Friday 1.30 pm)
BBC Birmingham
A recording of a hearing brought before the London Small Claims Court.
The Small Claims Courts In London and Manchester were established to enable people claiming damages or redress up to a sum of £350. to meet informally the people against whom they were making their claim in the presence of an arbitrator, by whose decision both parties have agreed to be bound.
This week: A Dress at the Dry Cleaners. Producers SUSAN SNAILUM and PAT TAYLOR
(The recording was made with the permission of the London Small Claims Court)
George Target remembers some endearing eccentrics he has met. This week - the couple who fancied Italy.
' Nobody had informed me that at one view I should see a palace, a town, a fortified city, temples on high places, woods worthy of being each a metropolis of the Druids, the noblest lawn in the world fenced by half the horizon and a mausoleum that would tempt one to be buried alive.'
(HORACE WALPOLE)
Michael Oliver visits George Howard , the present owner of this great house in Yorkshire and the first building designed by the playwright Sir John Vanbrugh in 1699 - his genius now ' hugely turned to architecture '.
Producer JOHN POWELL
A Kaleidoscope production
Douglas Stuart reporting
Bernard Falk has been off again to meet all kinds of people who have found the secret of happiness in unusual and sometimes eccentric occuPations, roducer SALLY THOMPSON
Joan Bakewell describes one of the pleasures of life.
BBC Manchester
A House for Mr Biswas (14)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
