News, weather, papers, sport
Introduced by John Timpsoa With LIBBY PURVES including at
6.45* Prayer for the Day
With THE REV RICHARD HARRIES
7.9, 8.0 Today's News
Read by LAURIE MACMILLAN
7.30, 8.30 News headlines
7.45* Thought for the Day
by ROBERT GRAVES (5)
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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
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A question asked by the accompanist, Gerald Moore, as he recalls records he made with some of the world's greatest artists, including today a galaxy of singers: Kathleen Ferrier, Isobel Baillie, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Nicolai Gedda.
Producer: Christine Hardwick
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NEM, p 67; Around the throne of God a band IBBC HB 237); Psalm 148; Revelation 12, vv 7-12 (AV); Stars of the morning (BBC HB 238)
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A Rose by Any Other Name. by ELLIS WYNNE EVANS Read by J. 0. Roberts Producer HARRI (;WYNN BBC Wales
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Bridget Boland shares some of the gardening wisdom she and her sister learnt from country-men and women.
Producer HELEN FRY
Presenters George Luce and Molly Price-Owen
12.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Presented by Gordon dough
medium only from 2.0
Introduced fr.-m Glasgow by Mary Marquis
Technology in Medicine: JOANNA HICKSON looks at the work of the largest bio-engineering organisation in the world.
2.0-2.2 News
'Sugar and Spite ': MARCELLA EVARISTI brings a new dimension to Scottish writing.
Mumbo Jumble: LIZ MCNEILL-TAYLOR with some advice for church hall bargain hunters. BBC Scotland. Ruined City (2)
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Story: The Happy Little King's Crown Jewels by MOIRA HERITAGE
Presenters LUCY SKEAPING and TONY AITKEN
Written by TONY AITKEN
Producer JENYTH WORSLEY
in ALEKSEI ARBUZOV 'S
Old World. from the translation by ARIADNE NICOLAEFF adapted by WALTER HALL
An elderly surgeon and a failed circus artist might seem an unlikely couple to fall in love, but this is just what happens. He's in charge of a sanitorium and she's his new patient - and a truly extraordinary patient she turns out to be, with a zany sense of humour and an outsize love of life which nearly drives the poor doctor crazy.
A bitter-sweet sentimental love story by Soviet Russia's only widely respected and nationally performed stage writer.
Directed by DICKON REED . A World Service Drama productions
Presented by Michael Kennedy Early in 1938 Sir Henry J. Wood asked Ralph Vaughan Williams to write a work for the concert on 5 October to celebrate his golden jubilee as a conductor. Vaughan Williams replied: ' should love to write - to have the honour of writing - a piece in your praise if I can manage it '. Wood replied: I cannot tell you the gratitude I feel that you should write i.e so kindly regarding my request. I do not for a moment however propose that this work of yours should be written as an ode to myself, for I would like it to be a choral work that can be used at any time and for any occasion
The work was called Serenade to Music and was written for 16 solo voices, employing some of the distinguished singers that had been associated with Sir Henry.
Eight of the singers: Dame Isobel Baillie , Muriel Brunskill , Robert Easton. Roy Henderson , Mary Jarred , Stiles Allen , Elsie Suddabyand Dame Eva Turner, together with the composer's widow Ursula Vaughan Williams, recall the rehearsals and first performance of the work. Producer BRIAN DEAN
Jane and Prudence by BARBARA PYM abridged in ten parts by JANET HICKSON
Read by JUNE BARRIE (10) Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
(Starting on Monday; Period Piece by Gwen Aarerat )
Presented by Gordon Clough
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 WlA 4WW
Producer DENYS GUEROULT
(From tomorrow Enquire Within moves to Saturdays at 4.45)
5.55 medium only
Weather and programme news
Including Financial Report
with Barry Norman
Producer GEOFF DOBSON Editor ROGER MACDONALD
(Repeated: Monday 1.30 pm)
Margaret Howard presents her selection of extracts from BBC radio and television programmes over the past seven days. Producer ALASTAIR WILSON
(Repealed: Saturday 10.30 am medium only)
A personal portrait
A spontaneous discussion by Baroness Phillips Russell Braddon Clive Jenkins James Leasor from Ipswicn
Chairman David Jacobs Producer CAROLE STONE BBC Bristol
1 The television camera has power to capture the inner unspoken moment, to act as an infallible lie-detector of what is false in emotion or rhetoric.'
(DAVID JONES)
For some writers and directors television drama is an important challenge, for others it can never match the excitement of live theatre.
Michael Billington chairs a discussion on the relative appeal of the two media with David Jones. Michael Rudman and David Hare.
Producer DAVID PERRT Preview: page 23
9.59 Weather
Douglas Stuart reporting
An irreverently critical look back at the week's news with David Jason. Bill Wallis
David Tate , Sheila Steafel and the DAVID FIRMAN TRIO
Written by JOHN LANGDON , GUY JENKIN , BARRY BOWES. RICHARD QUICK and JEREMY BROWNE
Producer GRIFF RHYS JONES
A Blueprint for Putting Britain Back in the Great Beans, written and read by JIM ANDREW BBC Manchester
Rogue Male (5)
Weather report and forecast followed by an interlude
